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C Greg Oden (All B1G, All-American, Defensive Player of the Year, Butler Assistant Coach)

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http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?columnist=adande_ja&page=Oden-101118


With the latest Greg Oden injury news, all I can think about is the money. We've already shed our tears for Oden, the nice guy whose body has repeatedly betrayed him. We've already made the Sam Bowie comparisons, rendered our verdict on Oden versus Kevin Durant, lamented what might have been for the Portland Trail Blazers if only Oden stayed on the court. Now it's time to count the lost dollars.
Oden's string of injury woes could cost him some $80 million to $90 million. Even Bill Gates cringes at the thought of missing out on $90 million.
We'll use Durant, who was selected right after Oden with the second pick in the 2007 draft, as the benchmark. This past summer, Durant tacked a five-year extension that could be worth up to $89 million onto the $6 million he'll make this season. The Trail Blazers already have declined to pick up their option on Oden following the expiration of his rookie-scale contract this season. Why would they when they already have $9.2 million committed to Marcus Camby?
So Oden would be forced to enter whatever free-agent market awaits for players under the next collective bargaining agreement, a new set of rules that is universally expected to be less lucrative for the players.
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they were asking Jalen Rose today if they thought GO was a "bust" or not and I thought Jalen did a good job of explaining the difference in a "bust" and a player that has been hampered by injuries. GO can't be considered a bust simply because he hasn't gotten the chance to really go out there and play.

I laughed when Jalen said, "a bust is someone like Kwame Brown."......:lol:
 
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As much as he loved being a student at Ohio State and publicly stating his desire to stay for a few years, I have to wonder whether the family docs told him that his body was going to give out, so he went pro to take care of his family and financial future and will be back on campus in a year or two.

Pure speculation, I know. That, however, doesn't make it implausible.
 
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I think it would be best for him to get out of Portland maybe not from a team aspect but just a mental aspect. All that pressure on him with being the number one pick and him wanting to show the fans he can really live up to that after all the injuries has got to take a toll on him mentally.
 
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dragurd;1814129; said:
I think it would be best for him to get out of Portland maybe not from a team aspect but just a mental aspect. All that pressure on him with being the number one pick and him wanting to show the fans he can really live up to that after all the injuries has got to take a toll on him mentally.
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Cleveland??
 
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ORD_Buckeye;1813979; said:
As much as he loved being a student at Ohio State and publicly stating his desire to stay for a few years, I have to wonder whether the family docs told him that his body was going to give out, so he went pro to take care of his family and financial future and will be back on campus in a year or two.

Pure speculation, I know. That, however, doesn't make it implausible.
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I was thinking the same. None of us know what it's like to be in a body like that and at 6 foot 220 and 40 years old I know how my sorry ass feels some mornings. I only have youth baseball and lacrosse as a young adult to blame. I can only imagine how he feels when get gets out of bed.
 
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Matta gives Oden a call

Ohio State coach Thad Matta said he rarely has called Greg Oden the past three years in the immediate aftermath of Oden suffering another one of his knee injuries. But Matta said he called him this week after Oden's latest misfortune.

"I talked to him yesterday. He was leaving this morning at 6 to go to Vail to have surgery," Matta said Friday.

"It?s hard. You don?t know what to say. You hate to see that happen to anybody, but a great kid like Greg, I just want him to get healthy and get a chance to do what he wants to do, and that?s play in the NBA.

"When he left here, I had no doubts he was going to be, about this time, four years in the NBA, one of the best centers in the league. It?s unfortunate."

Matta said, however, that Oden seemed "very upbeat" during their conversation.

"He was in great spirits. He was more excited that we had won (at Florida).

"Eventually, (the rehab ahead of him) may weigh on him, but it?s what he has to do to get to where he wants to go.

"You look last year, he was averaging 12 points, 9.5 rebounds, 4 blocked shots a game before he went down. Statistically, I think Portland was telling me, he was maybe the second-most-productive player in the minutes he was playing in the NBA. Then he has the injury.

"So (the talent is) there. It?s just a matter of him getting healthy."

Oden had successful surgery Friday in Vail, Colo., the Portland Trail Blazers announced. But his chances of ever being the player he might have been are slim, The Oregonian reported in a story analyzing microfracture knee surgeries on NBA players.
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http://blog.dispatch.com/hoopsscoops/2010/11/matta_gives_oden_a_call.shtml

Standing by Oden
It?s good to see Portland president Larry Miller still believes in Greg Oden, which is why the Trail Blazers plan to give Oden an $8.8 million qualifying offer.

With Friday?s successful microfracture surgery on his left knee, the 22-year-old Oden officially is sidelined until next season. He will have played just 82 games in his first four years as a pro, which is the equivalent of one full season.

Oden?s ailments include torn ligaments in his right wrist, a tonsillectomy, microfracture surgery on his right knee, a right foot sprain, a bone chip in his left knee, a fractured left patella and Friday?s surgery.

?We are going to look at it and evaluate it, but we want Greg to be a part of this team,? Miller told The Oregonian. ?I still think Greg Oden is going to be an impact player in the NBA, and that?s the way we are going to approach it.?
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Read more: http://newsok.com/inside-scoop/article/3516691#ixzz15v2xOEAZ
Study shows limits of microfracture surgery done on Blazers' Greg Oden
Published: Saturday, November 20, 2010
Joe Rojas-Burke, The Oregonian

About one in five pro basketball players who undergo the knee surgery Portland Trail Blazer Greg Oden had Friday never play another NBA game. And those who come back tend to perform at a significantly lower level than before surgery.

Of course, it's impossible to say with certainty whether Oden's prospects are better or worse than average. A lot depends on the extent of his injury and how his body responds to the treatment. But a study completed last year by surgeons at Drexel University provides some objective facts about microfracture surgery. It's an arthroscopic procedure in which a surgeon drills very small holes in the bone near damaged cartilage, releasing bone marrow stem cells that can grow new cartilage.

The study tracked 24 NBA players who had microfracture surgery from 1997 to 2006. Five of the 24 players didn't come back. Recovery times for those who returned to the NBA ranged from two to 18 months. The average rehabilitation took six months.

To rate before and after performance, researchers compared minutes per game and player efficiency ratings -- a combined measure of per-game scoring, rebounds, steals and other statistics. The average player efficiency rating fell from 15.5 pre-injury to 12 in the first season played after surgery. Time played per game fell by about 5 minutes.

Two years after surgery, 17 players were still active. Their performance lagged significantly behind a control group of similar players who were never injured. But they showed a trend toward improving performance and game times.

"This may indicate that athletes who are able to mount a sustained comeback, greater than two years after surgery, will return to near their pre-injury levels of playing time and performance," study authors Douglas Cerynik and colleagues concluded. Former Blazers forward Zach Randolph is a case in point. He bounced back from microfracture to become an NBA all-star.
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRsCH1rb724"]YouTube - NBA on TNT: Inside Greg Oden's Injury (11/18/10)[/ame]
 
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