Might as well ..wont hurt..Theres a reason we have the best medical staff in the NBA...Activity and Enrollment
i wouldnt trade anyone but maybe jeffries for him, but id sign him for the min next season. he could come back, if not it wouldnt hurt us
No one wants to trade with Morey and superstars don't want to come here. Players like Oden are who we should try to target.
Rather bring Olajuwon out of retirement, or I'll play for half of what Oden gets. If you're going to pay someone to sit in the crowd and watch games PICK ME! PICK ME! PICK ME! I'm better looking and have some mean looking suits, plus can hit the 3 and my perimeter D reminds people of a young Battier, and I'm Aussie. Americans love Aussies, right?
It won't be a bad gamble at all at the right price. He is not the Thabeet kinda bust, the guy can actually play basketball, if he does miraculously get healthy, he will be a good addition to the team. But then again at a good price. Did someone say he is RFA this year, I don't think Portland will be matching anything, why don't we get him in the summer
Let me repeat this: HE HAS ONE LEG SHORTER THAN THE OTHER. He wears an orthotic to even it out, but that's like wearing a small high heel...**** isn't stable enough and will never be. The chances of him being healthy from now on are the same as his short leg growing to match his other leg.
He had that same short leg when he dominated at Ohio St...Remember when everyone short of the blind drooled over him...He's well worth the risk
"I'm used to having a little limp in my walk,'' Oden said. The reason is because Oden's right leg is slightly shorter than his left leg, probably as a result of having hip surgery when he was in 6th grade. During the surgery, a pin was placed in his right hip. As Oden describes it, the bone that attaches his leg to his hip "was hanging on for dear life". "That's why I had to have the surgery that day, because nobody knew how much longer it was going to hold on,'' Oden said. Blazers athletic trainer Jay Jensen recently experimented with different orthopedic pads to put in Oden's right shoe. He found that a 9/16th pad caused Oden's surgically-repaired right knee to ache. So they have settled on a 5/8th pad, which allows Oden to walk with his now-normal gait, which has the appearance of a limp. "That's just the way he walks now out of habit,'' Jensen said http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindblazersbeat/2007/11/thats_not_a_limp_thats_just_od.html They had to "settle" for what didn't hurt him, rather than what solved the issue. That's because an orthotic won't solve it. If it did, then his now normal gait wouldn't include a limp. Plus, if his leg was "hanging on for dear life" back then, who knows how much damage was caused before he finally had surgery. He was walking on it like that, maybe even playing sports. That's another thing that may creep up with time.
sorry, that was a bad link ^^ http://blog.oregonlive.com/behindblazersbeat/2007/11/thats_not_a_limp_thats_just_od.html
Have you people learned nothing over the past decade!!?? No, no, no, a million times no! I am sick of the excuse that we are not playing to out potential because our best player is hurt.
"Dominated" is an exaggeration... And problems like that get worse with time. How long ago was he in college? Years ago. And what has happened since? He's had two significant injuries. To his legs. It's not going to get better, but only worse. If you have doubts just ask Brandon Roy. The only way i can see him lengthening his career is by becoming less mobile, either by choice or because he's forced because his body just won't cooperate. Doing it by choice is difficult because you can't constantly be thinking about it as you play. I think he'll end up with more pins and screws that finally give him some relief and maybe he'll have a poor man's Zydrunas-like finish to his career.
No offense, RV6, but I highly doubt you're an MD or anybody that can speak intelligently about his prognosis. IIRC he spent his entire HS and college career injury free (save a wrist injury in college that doesn't help your case) before suffering a series of unfortunate and relatively fluke injuries after going pro. So for you to sit here and suggest these type of things only get worse with time seems convenient given your argument. At the end of the day it still comes down to the wild card nature of microfracture surgery. There are plenty of success stories and even somebody like Kenyon Martin (had the procedure done on both knees) was able to recover too. So unless somebody with the background to do so tells me otherwise, I'm not writing this guy off.
Hard to believe this happened to Portland again. Remember Sam Bowie went to Portland in '84 as the number 2 pick, between Hakeem and MJ. Then broke his leg several times. And it was AB's shot that Oden was trying to block when he went down again last year. Why not give it a shot, if you can get him real cheap?
