George Karl shares pain, power of optimism amid cruel cancer treatment

Posted Apr 1, 2010
Nuggets' coach George Karl is undergoing an intense, 45-day cancer cocktail of radiation and chemotherapy that saps his strength and causes so much pain to his mouth and throat that he cannot eat. Karl's hopes of coaching through the treatment have dissolved in a mist of pain and pain meds and fatigue. And, oh yes, his team has fallen from second to fifth in the Western Conference standings. (Denver Post)

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