He's plenty humble. He's just been driven mental by his disappointing career. Also by trying to work out, practice, and play while in pain. Try moving when it always hurts to move. It makes one less tolerant of bitches complaining about nothing. Walton, too, went mental over his disappointing career. His current strange, too-happy personality is not the one he had in college.
You actually just compared Bill Walton and Greg Oden? Wow dude! A lot of folks living with pain don't fracture their ex girlfriends nose or give her a black eye. Nope, he's not getting any respect from my camp anytime soon. He's a 25 year old millionaire drunk that's out of control. You got the mental part right, I'll give ya that
Could have gotten a stitched lettering Oden jersey today for my son for less than a dollar but passed.
At this point, I have to agree with you. It's just too hard to defend him now and he's out of the good will gestures.
Are they comparable under a magnifying glass and looking at their finger prints? No. Do Walton and Oden have certain parallels, yes. Both are centers who had bad injuries and didn't have the careers they thought they would have. They also both had bouts with depression. Did both alienate their fan bases? Yep. (Walton by blaming and suing the Blazers and Oden with his statements). While (IMO) they are not comparable down the the fingerprint level, they do have some parallels.
