Greg Oden: 'I'll be remembered as the biggest bust in NBA history'

Wasn't dudes fault his knees were bad. I wouldn't call him the biggest bust. However, I do remember him not taking his recovery seriously by partying damn near every night though. That was frustrating.

 

Oden was to me the biggest bust....Sam Bowie was just bad luck...he went on to be a decent player after Portland

 

Bollocks. Once he was healthy, he was above average.

 

I thought we were talking blazers. Not NBA.

 

Yeah uhhhh oden, given his expectations, is a huge fucking failure. Definitely a top 5 bust of all time.

 

I'll spot you one Lucas and raise you two Jerome Kerseys!

 

I raise your raise with a Shawn kemp

 

LaRue Martin

 

I think only blazer fans will remember that Oden was actually on his way to becoming a very good player. At least at the level of Drummond. He was a dominant rebounder, good shot blocker, and very good finisher around the basket.

 

I think we picked Mykul Thompson over Larry Bird. Not that Thompson was a bad player.

How many HOF players have we passed up? I think Bowie is the biggest bust.

 

Durant is honestly better than all those guys, so the opportunity cost makes Oden a bigger bust in my opinion. I can understand people disagreeing with me.

The one thing that mitigates the disaster of choosing Oden is we don't really know how Durant and Aldridge might have gotten along. It's pretty easy to imagine that dynamic not playing out well, and us seeing one or both walk on us well before we get a title. So maybe Kandi was a bigger disaster when you could've had a long-term cornerstone like Dirk, or Darko for the same reason with Wade.

With Jordan there's no doubt in my mind that we blew multiple titles by whiffing on him. It's really, really hard to imagine anybody ever supplanting Bowie as the greatest bust in NBA history.

 

And yet, KD has zero rings. My biggest issue is that I don't agree with the use of the word "bust."

 

Where would we be right now if we had drafted Durant? We could be in worse shape. If he bolted from OKC he'd probably have bolted from here, just as LA did.

We'd never have traded for Wallace nor traded Wallace for the pick that got us Lillard. Durant would have kept us good enough to not get lotto picks, so no CJ either.

 

Durant is honestly better than DWade and Dirk ?
I certainly think that's a debatable statement

 

Oden is not even close to being the biggest bust in history, hasn't he been paying attention? Hillary Clinton is the biggest bust in history, and I voted for the woman!

 

How can Adam Morrison be a bust? He has a championship ring. HA! Always cracks me up when people use winning rings as a way to judge a players greatness.

 

And what about the chump the Cavs drafter a couple years ago Number 1? He's not even in the league and I don't even remember his damn name. Anthony?

 

Anthony Bennett, I would say, is a much bigger bust than Oden. At least Oden looked like a player out there when he was healthy. It didn't happen much, but he helped our team when he was able to play. The same thing can't be said about Bennett. At all.

 

Oden was one of the most hyped prospects of all time. He has to be the greatest disappointment in NBA history.

I mean, come on. We held a fucking parade for this guy the day after he was drafted.