I'm sitting here watching the Portland Trailblazers News Conference about Greg Oden missing the entire upcoming season after having microfacture surgery. The Sports Guy has a post comparing this situation to the Sam Bowie pick over MJ. Good thing the Blazers took the safe pick with Oden.
The funniest thing I've heard so far:
"We're lucky to have a player who cares about the organization this much."
The team general manager said this when he remarked that Oden was so upset about missing the entire season. I think that I would rather have someone like Allen Iverson ("We're talking about practice? Not a game, practice") out there on the court than someone who really cares about the organization sitting out the whole year. And, there is no given on the comeback from this type of surgery. It took Amare Stoudemire like 2 years to really recover from this surgery. If Durant develops a fade away jumper and goes on the rule the league, we're all gonna be feeling a strange sense of deja vu in about 20 years.
Ok, someone just asked the general manager how the surgery went. His response was something along these lines:
"If there is a silver lining, his knees look good cartilage wise, he's young, there wasn't a lot of flaking, it was as clean as they had seen."
Trust me Portland, there is no silver lining on this one. Not when your future franchise guy goes in for cartilage surgery and ends up having micro fracture surgery.
One last thought. Zach Randolph and Darius Miles both had the same surgery. What's in the water in Portland?
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i'm pullin' for oden to come back ok...
Trust me, you don't want to know what micro-fracture entails...its not good !
nothing that involves your line of work is good...
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