"Cry?

Not Georgia Young. Uh, un. No sir. There will be no showing weakness here. Not after what she has been through. Not after the doctor's office that September 2010 day, when the words "breast cancer" hit her cold.

In the months that followed, there would be a surgery. And chemotherapy.

"I had to get some tough skin with what I went through," she said.

So her youngest son, Trail Blazers star LaMarcus Aldridge, never saw his mother cry. Never heard it, either, on the many phone calls from Portland to Dallas. "