Oden Out For The Year

I really hope he doesn’t become an injury prone big player. Someone mentioned in another thread the other day that it’s really up to him to take the reigns from Shaq as a dominating center. With no offense to Yao Ming it’s true seeing that there’s really no other dominating centers in the game today.

Wow I joked about this sounding like Sam Bowie when his surgery first got mentioned and now it might actually turn out that way. I think I would be on suicide watch if we had drafted him and this happened. Tough break for the Blazers.

Does this mean Raef will see a lot of PT?

Boom goes the dynamite.

How awful for Portland.

Getting a bad lottery pick was the best thing ever to happen to the Celtics.

Man, I feel bad for Blazers fans. Imagine how excited we would have been here had we got Oden, and how depressed had this happened. Sheesh. Sucks royally.

lol..two words….OJ Mayo….if the blazers end up in the lottery and get the first pick again….they could get him and they will have an even brighter future for yrs. to come

Wow. That’s too bad for Oden and the Blazers. I hope he gets back 100% next year.

Hey on the bright side for Oden, at least he can let his wrist heal fully now.

The basketball gods are looking out for the celtics again

LOL Eeyore III ;D

This isn’t ‘suicide watch’ time for Blazers fans, Oden probably wasn’t leading them to a title this year. Provided he’s able to make a full recovery (like Amare) and this isn’t indicative of a pattern, the future in Portland is very bright. Especially if the get a higher pick this year because of it.

If it was KG, then there be some rightful bridge-jumping around here.

Celtic luck is back baby! and everyone thought we got unlucky with the draft

awful news for (us) blazer fans.

but things like this are why i wasn’t peeing my pants w/excitement when my #1 team got the #1 pick, or offing myself when my #2 team fell to #5. the draft is such a crapshoot. you just never know what you’ll end up with.

I bet Stern is kicking himself right now that he didn’t make sure the Celtics got the #1 pick.

Haha Stern. :D

Think of our luck… The blazers look really unlucky right now because of this, so now it looks like the Sonics are the lucky ones. But because the Sonics landed Durant, it enabled them to dispose of Allen, which enabled us to get him and make getting KG possible. It seems now that what happened on may 22nd was the best outcome we could have had

Dear David Stern,

Thank you for manipulating the draft so the Celtics dropped to 5th. You’re like Santa Claus.

Sincerely,

Green Bear

Seriously, can you imagine what we’d all be like if the Celtics got Oden? There wouldn’t be enough room on the ledge! That sucks for him. I feel terrible for Oden.

I don’t think injury is as big a concern as some think or it is at least no more of a concern than any other elite team. All the elite teams are veteran teams with a bunch of guys in their 30s. We are no different than any other contender. They all have the same injury concerns.

I feel bad for the guy, but at least he got his guaranteed millions even if things don’t work out.

what a shame.

Who said that we were coursed???…. As Celtic fan I am happy that we didn’t pick up Oden in draft, but as a sport man I feel sad for him. He is a great player.

I know Oden will be very good next season.

swe1989 … interesting thought about the lottery, although I think Mayo would have to show massively improved character. The Blazers aren’t taking character chances anymore, it seems.

May be beyond us to say we dodged a bullet. Would Oden have been on that couch in Boston? We don’t know. Heck, something worse could’ve happened to him in Boston. Ask Tony Allen. ‘’Again I saw that under the sun the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, nor bread to the wise, nor riches to the intelligent, nor favor to those with knowledge, but time and chance happen to them all.’’ (Ecclesiastes 9)

Too bad for Oden, but as swe mentions above, it might be a sort of blessing in disguise for the Blazers, who may be able to build around a core of Oden, Aldridge, Outlaw, Roy and Mayo/Rose. That is a nice group of youngsters at every position.

It’s a big leap to go from Oden missing a year to the Blazers getting the #1 again next year. First of all, they still have a competitive young team. And even if they do suck, that in no way guarantees a top-3 pick (see: Celtics, 2007 draft).

Wow, Are we in a better position as a team or what…. I’m telling you things are looking more and more better each day for the Boston Celtics……

Piston writer said 2 magic words…Micro fracture….not good

Is that the same injury Amare S. had, Mo?

Oden won’t be 20 years old until January 22nd. The Blazers can wait a year. They still have Aldridge, Przybilla and Frye to play center.

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Portland has a good young team, and they’re still a better off with Greg Oden recovering from microfracture surgery then they would be with Corey Brewer, or whoever they would have gotten if they didn’t win the lottery. And they should get another player this year. They’re going to be fine. Last time I checked, the Sonics still wanted to leave Seattle – would rather be a Blazers fan right now

I’m no Doctor…lol..but Amare seems OK and CWebb/older,not so good..my guess ,as with hips/knees etc that Micro surgery gets better each time…and the younger the patient the better

That reaffirms the only two things sure in life: Death and taxes, not necessarily in that order. Makes everybody that can read this post glad that he (she) is alive. Nothing else really matters after all, not even taxes; that only money. Stay alive, amigos, stay alive.

I feel bad for Port and oden both. If the C’s had won the lottery and drafted Oden, the Celtic fans would be finding a way to blame Danny for this as well.

Poor Danny, can’t win. He could fire Doc tomorrow, Sign Popovich or D’Antoni as coach the same day, trade for Jason Kidd and Tim Duncan without giving up PP, KG, or RA, and the fans would still try to lynch him . . .

Wow, that’s a shame about Oden and he’s only 21.The Blazers have had some of the worst and unluckist brakes i’ve seen. Passing on Jordan and getting Bowie ;D , Oden, the star center of the furture, out for season – to bad.

I feel bad for Oden but it ends there. I have no remorse for someone like Henry Abbot who questions whether a Celtics title would be considered “bought” because of a couple good trades while his team goes out and buys draft picks every year from other teams.

i hope he doesn’t turn into another walton, extremely gifted with anatomical defects- small feet. no brittle bones for greg. in the long run, luck evens out. you just have to take advantage of the good luck when you get it to the max. for us, i hope it’s our turn for some good luck.

Yahoo sports reporting many teams privately had health concerns all along on Oden. I had heard many of the looks like a 40 year old jokes but this is the first I have heard about the concerns ran that deep.

As far as comparisons go, Sam Bowie analysis is ridiculous. If injuries persist, it will be more like a Bill Walton type career.

IMO if it is west of the Mississippi River, go Blazers. Play your hearts out or get another great lotto selection.

For all we know the same may be what happened in the long term with us and Bird. We got him but had to wait a year before we cashed in.

Had we gotten the #1 and took Oden, would we have to read all this nonsense about the Celtic curse for months to come? Come on people, curses are for the ignorant.

Portland, take your lemons and make lemonade the next several years.

amazing what a few months can do

This could actually be a blessing in disguise – if they suck again this year and get a good pick, they will have a tremendous duo of rookies next year.

This is simply horrible horrible news for the league in general and NorthWest basketball.

poor greg. poor portland.

thank god we didnt get that #1 pick.

byrdman,
I wish the Celtics would have tossed some money around for one of those Phoenix picks.

Bottom line, one team down (Portland) 28 to go. Best wishes on a speedy recovery next year Mr. Oden.

Cousin It,

I couldn’t agree more, but that doesn’t change the fact that for him to insinuate that our team is bought is utterly ridiculous.