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Wow!
Wow!
Tippecanoe, hope you don't mind.
Here's the link article.
Oden lost for season
By Adrian Wojnarowski, Yahoo! Sports
Greg Oden , the Portland Trail Blazers' No. 1 pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, will miss the 2007-2008 season after knee surgery on Thursday, two league sources told Yahoo! Sports.
Oden, the 7-footer out of Ohio State, underwent exploratory surgery on his right knee on Thursday in Vancouver. The extent of the damage was not immediately clear, but Oden, one of the most celebrated young players in years, will be lost for the season.
The Blazers are expected to make an announcement shortly.
Oh...My sincere sympathy to TLong.
Sucks
. As a basketball fan, this blows.
atleast he might be heathy next season as long as he does not sit on the coach!
i'm converted. i thought he was a future Hall Of Famer before he ever put on a jersey, but this guy will never amount to anything.
Greg Oden will always be injury prone. Sam Bowie Part 2.
microfracture surgery too....he's ed.
blazers are ED
The Blazers still have a good young nucleus, but they can kiss their hopes of Oden being the next dominating Center goodbye.
He'll never be the same.
Few ever are.
It's really sad.
Aldridge, Channing Frye, Przybilla, Josh McRoberts, Lafrentz (was he even going to play?) still make up a solid front court. No where near what they would be with the athleticism and physical abilities of Oden. But, I don't think it kills them. Heck, maybe they'll get another high draft pick and either OJ Mayo or Derrick Rose ends up being their point guard. They've been getting awfully lucky in the lottery the last couple years.
ahaha. Seattle is looking sexy right now.
Tell that to Zach Randolph. Amare is getting closer to being what he was.
You mean Oklahoma City?
I'm sure Oden can recover fully from this, but it's the fact that he ALWAYS has some injury.
First the wrist, then tonsils, now his knee.
This guy's the the injury bug somethin fierce and I doubt he'll ever get over it.
Oden=Bowie
TLongII needs to be put on suicide watch.
ESPN reporting they had to do microfracture surgery
Celebrated Trail Blazers rookie center Greg Oden, the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, will likely miss the 2007-2008 season after undergoing knee surgery Thursday, the team said.
"Greg had an arthroscopy and a microfracture surgery today," team physician Dr. Don Roberts, who performed the surgery, said in a statement posted on the Trail Blazers' Web site. "He was found to have articular cartilage damage in his right knee. The area of injury was not large and we were able to treat it with microfracture, which stimulates the growth of cartilage.
"There are things about this that are positive for Greg. First of all, he is young. The area where the damage was is small and the rest of his knee looked normal. All those are good signs for a complete recovery from microfracture surgery."
The Blazers are to discuss the news at a 4:30 p.m. ET news conference. Oden's procedure was performed in Vancouver, Wash.
Oden described the knee pain in an entry Tuesday on his personal blog:
"On my vacation earlier this summer i got up off the couch and remember my knee having a sharp pain in it. That was about a month ago. I didn't tell anyone because i didn't want to seem like i was complaining or making excuses for anything. Plus i wasn't doing anything at the time i realized it hurt, so i figured it couldn't be anything big.
"After a couple of weeks, i had to finally tell someone so i went to St. Vincent's Sports Performance (where i worked out at before draft) and got my knee looked at. That was right before i moved to Portland for good. My knee was swollen since i was there. I finally just said that i need to tell my trainer because this is not normal. We went to the doctor's the next day to get a MRI and that night me and my mom ended up in the doctor's office being told that I have to get surgery. It's a light one, just a scoop, but still it's just another setback. I would like for me to be playing and not seem like i'm a high-maintenance player, but things just keep popping up.
This is Oden's second health problem since the Trail Blazers drafted him in June. He had a tonsillectomy in July after struggling in two Las Vegas summer league games.
Oden, despite being hampered by a wrist injury during his freshman (and only) season at Ohio State, averaged 15.7 points and 9.6 rebounds in leading the Buckeyes to the national championship game. He had 25 points and 12 rebounds in the loss to Florida.
The Trail Blazers were the surprise winners of the NBA draft lottery and chose Oden over Texas forward Kevin Durant, who went to Seattle.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=3017538
didnt amare lose about 3" on his vertical after the surgery? it'll definitely limit oden's upside. this ing blows, not just for portland, but for the whole league
Agreed, but they're the exception to the rule.
IIRC, most never are the same.
Besides, Amare a freak of nature!
First thing I thought of too. Sonic fan is hoping the same thing happens to the guy whom Portland passed on.Sam Bowie Part 2
Blazers must be snake bit.
What he lacks in brains, he makes up for in mouth.
Besides, Amare a freak of nature!
Ok, back to the topic at hand...............
Last edited by Strike; 09-15-2007 at 09:09 PM.
Durant is going to avg. 40+ this year
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