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Lifestyle => Sports & Entertainment => Topic started by: GangstaBoogy on September 10, 2007, 11:14:27 PM
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I hope this isn't a sign of things to come for this old ass dude...
The Oregonian has learned that Trail Blazers rookie center Greg Oden injured his right knee on Monday in Portland and underwent a magnetic resonance imaging. The test results are not available, but he is expected to have exploratory surgery on Thursday, team sources said.
The Trail Blazers are expected to issue a press release shortly and we'll pass along more information as we learn more.
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That's bustastic...
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:rant: <-------Trail Blazers Fans
I guess they just don't make them like they used to.
These kid's are too fragile.
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Dude has been injury prone from his high school days...Hope it works out for him though.
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awesome
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Oden To Have Surgery On Hurting Knee
Trail Blazers center Greg Oden, the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, will undergo exploratory arthroscopic surgery this week because of pain in his right knee.
An MRI taken last week showed Oden may have some cartilage problems, general manager Kevin Pritchard said Monday.
A timetable for Oden's return will be set following the surgery, which will take place Thursday in Vancouver, Wash. The Trail Blazers open training camp in three weeks and the regular season starts Oct. 30.
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The Sam Bowie curse lives on!!!
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isn't one of his legs like half inch shorter than the other?
Said it before and I'll say it again, Durant>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Oden.
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Damn I hope everything works out for the kid
glad the Sonics got Durant 8)
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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 preformed 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 recovered from the tonsillectomy and was working out in the Portland area when he felt pain in his knee. AN MRI was taken last Thursday and Oden refrained from working out over the weekend.
Oden, despite being hampered by a wrist injury, averaged 15.7 points and 9.6 rebounds for Ohio State last season, leading the Buckeyes to the national championship game as a freshman. 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.
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HOLY SHIT!
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The Sam Bowie curse lives on!!!
lmao +1 i was thinkin the same thing
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Sam Bowie>Greg Oden? :-X
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HOLY SHIT!
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poor portland........LOL nevermind this is great news,lol. i bet they wish they would have kept zach now.
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Zach Randolph is still soft.
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Greg Oden = Antonio McDyess 2007
it muck suck to be a fan of Portland Ball.
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Damm, that is ALL BAD for them.
Looks like Celtics fans are probably rejoicing....they went from seeing their team suck for years.....to crying on lottery day.....to having the best trio the league's seen since the 90's. And this here probably has them even happier.
And damm....I might even call it the curse of Bill Walton along with Sam Bowie.
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to having the best trio the league's seen since the 90's.
:nawty:
Kobe - Shaq - Rice
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And damm....I might even call it the curse of Bill Walton along with Sam Bowie.
Very true..Portland has ALWAYS been cursed. Just when things start looking up...BOOM.
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That's fucked up on so many levels. LOL
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That's bustastic...
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to having the best trio the league's seen since the 90's.
:nawty:
Kobe - Shaq - Rice
That technically was the 90's
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to having the best trio the league's seen since the 90's.
:nawty:
Kobe - Shaq - Rice
That technically was the 90's
it was the year 2000 when the trio won a championship...
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As this ever happenned before, a overal first pick missing the entire season cuz of injury?
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man what a shame for Oden and the portland organization.Do you guys think he can rebound from the injury?He has youth on his side which is the only good thing for him at this time.
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Sam Bowie>Greg Oden? :-X
appears that could be true
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As this ever happenned before, a overal first pick missing the entire season cuz of injury?
Yea...Bob Boozer in 1959...Well, not cuz of injury though.
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man what a shame for Oden and the portland organization.Do you guys think he can rebound from the injury?He has youth on his side which is the only good thing for him at this time.
Yeah he'll bounce back. The real question is, how effective is he going to be? Wouldn't be surprising if he ended up playing as many games a season as Chris Webber.
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man what a shame for Oden and the portland organization.Do you guys think he can rebound from the injury?He has youth on his side which is the only good thing for him at this time.
Yeah he'll bounce back. The real question is, how effective is he going to be? Wouldn't be surprising if he ended up playing as many games a season as Chris Webber.
Low key, Webber's overall career has laster longer than virtually everyone from that 1993 class who seemed to all have short lived careers...Sam Cassell is like the only one from that class who's still effective. Lindsay Hunter's hangin around, but that's about it.
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Oden's injury prone - knees, wrist, tonsils, fatigue, whatever.
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man what a shame for Oden and the portland organization.Do you guys think he can rebound from the injury?He has youth on his side which is the only good thing for him at this time.
Yeah he'll bounce back. The real question is, how effective is he going to be? Wouldn't be surprising if he ended up playing as many games a season as Chris Webber.
Low key, Webber's overall career has laster longer than virtually everyone from that 1993 class who seemed to all have short lived careers...Sam Cassell is like the only one from that class who's still effective. Lindsay Hunter's hangin around, but that's about it.
Yeah but he misses a significant amount of games every season. Thats not something you want from the "savior" of your franchise [Oden].