Nuggets coach George Karl took center stage for a few moments Wednesday night during the ESPY Awards in Los Angeles.
Karl received a standing ovation while accepting the perseverance award, named for legendary coach Jim Valvano.
“As someone who has gone through four bouts with cancer, there’s an individual challenge and then there’s the family challenge. You have to have your family support you, and I have an incredible family. . . . What we need with cancer, with the people like the Jimmy V Foundation, is a partner, and the partner should be our national government. It should be a national government where every dollar raised tonight, every dollar raised by any national cancer society, every dollar raised should be matched by our federal government.
Read Karl’s speech in its entirety at .
