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Damn, I was actually looking forward to seeing this kid play. Missed the 1st half of his college season and now this cause of injuries, hope this is not a sign of things to come for his career.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news;_yl...&type=lgnsGreg 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.
Damn, I was actually looking forward to seeing this kid play. Missed the 1st half of his college season and now this cause of injuries, hope this is not a sign of things to come for his career.
Oden Undergoes Microfracture Surgery
An exploratory arthroscopic surgery performed on Greg Oden today revealed cartilage damage to the Portland Trail Blazers rookie’s right knee. Oden is likely to miss the 2007-08 NBA season.
"Greg had an arthroscopy and a micro fracture surgery today," said team physician Dr. Don Roberts, who preformed the surgery. "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 micro fracture, 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 micro fracture surgery."
Blazers.com
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Damn, who knew it would be that bad. So much for the excitement around the Spurs/Blazers game.
Wow, that sucks for the Blazers obviously. A lot of guys have come back fully healthy from ACL surgery and he's 19 so there is somewhat of a bright side.
EDIT: Damn microfracture too, that's not so good. Only Amare's ever really come all the way back from microfracture.
Last edited by Booharv; 09-13-2007 at 01:35 PM.
http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthre...t=77432&page=2
and in the nba forum
2nd coming of sam bowie..
edit to add: that's too bad. was looking forward to seeing what he could do.
Man Tlong, I guess you will have to watch us win another championship next year...
The NBA Central link:
http://spurstalk.com/forums/showthre...47#post1958247
this will really be bad for thong trolling
He also may be out until 2008 season as well due to this injury..
Talk about blue balls
That's horrible...yes he's young and he'll be back...but this really hurts the blazers chances to make any progress....now if they tank the season...they could get another high pick next year.....patience is the key I guess...
This seriously sucks. Even if someone doesn't care for Oden or the Blazers, it's a blow to the NBA in general. Horrible news but when I heard exploratory knee surgery for cartilage damage, microfracture surgery was the first thing that came to mind.
Sad day for the NBA.
That sucks! I was looking forward to Duncan schoolthlong him regularly next season. Oh well, maybe the season after next...
Terrible news.
At least the Blazers will get another high draft pick next year.
Sucks for the NBA though
Durant should have stayed in NCAA for another year lmao.
This really sucks. Not a Blazers fan at all, but I was looking forward to seeing this team develop around Oden.
What also sucks is we may never know how much of an athlete Oden could have been on the NBA level. After this surgery, it took Amare like 16 months to get back to about 85% of what he was athletically.
Holy , I'm psychic!
Seriously though, that sucks ass on so many levels. Bad for Oden, bad for Blazers (sorry Tlong), bad for the whole damn league. I really wanted to see if this kid was the real deal.
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
The minute I read this I thought "Amare"
That was the first thing that popped into my mind too. Such a ty deal for the Blazers and for Oden.
The sam bowie curse.
This seriously sucks. He was going to be a stud on my fantasy keeper team. Now he has to sit on my roster as an injured player for the whole year.
This sucks for timvp
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