Many of us dislike our day jobs but we continue each day, striving through just to survive while hundreds of athletes get paid millions of dollars just to shoot a ball through a hoop.  Okay, so there is a little bit more to it than just that, how how tough is it really to be an NBA player?

Marcus Camby cannot help but feel like a prisoner in Denver after being traded from the Knicks in the offseason reports to Mark Kiszla of the Denver Post.

Camby has missed all of the season with a hip ailment which sidlined him in October, and despite performing some highlight-worthy dunks during practices, he insists there will be no return to the court until the lingering pain subsides.

Camby has made it clear that he is not willing to make the Denver situation work for himself or for the team, and as Kiszla writes it is clear the same sales pitch this downtrodden franchise must deliver to skeptical free agents in the upcoming months has failed to make an impression on Camby.

"I'm an East Coast guy," Camby said. "I grew up in Connecticut, went to school in Massachusetts and played the majority of my pro career in New York. Coming out West in itself has been a big adjustment for me. My whole life is on the East Coast. I'm basically out here by myself. No family or nothing."

"Practices here are long, shoot-arounds are extra long," added Camby.

And of course being on the worst team in the Western Conference certainly doesn't help matters.

"It's definitely frustrating," he said Wednesday. "I'm used to being in the playoffs."

Kiszla believes that the Nuggets should trade Camby now, severing their ties with a disgrunted star while getting someone who could help the team's fortunes now.  Options include Michael Olowonkandi from the Clippers, Robert Horry and Samaki Walker from the Lakers, or even Jamal Crawford and Eddie Robinson from the Bulls.

"The whole year and how it went down is frustrating," concluded Camby.