Magic point guard Jameer Nelson isn't going to change his style of play in the wake of last season's shoulder injury.

Nelson missed the last 35 games of the regular season with a torn labrum in his right shoulder that required surgery.

"I don't know any other way to play. Rashard [Lewis] calls me 'Mighty Mouse,' " Nelson told the Orlando Sentinel of his roughhouse style. "I'm a contact guard. I run into people. I block out. I take charges. Somebody on the team has to do that type of stuff.

"I can't just be a jump-shooter. If I'm going to be a jump-shooter, I might as well take off 15 pounds and just back somebody up. But I put muscle on to be a starting point guard. I want to do the dirty work. I want to be that guy."

Via Orlando Sentinel

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