Maybe the Blazers should never put their money on Great Centers

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    Bowie was going to be the #2 pick in the draft regardless of who got the #1 pick. We needed a big Houston needed a big, a coin-flip decided who got Bowie and who got Hakeem. Bowie wasn't an allstar prospect he was a prospect that people expected to avg a double double and have very good defense, a great player for a team trying to make it deep in the playoffs.
     
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    I agree, all of his surgeries haven't been to anything but bones. His tendons haven't been, nothing in his body should be adversely effected by these surgeries. He should be able to get all of his quickness back and still be able to make a huge impact. Unlike Bynum or Yao there isn't a nagging injury at the moment that will cause him to keep having problems and eventually cost him his quickness.
    The injuries I remember correct me if i'm wrong on any of them
    Removed a bone spur in his knee
    2 MF surgeries
    Knee exploding.
    All of those are related to Bones and when a bone gets broken it grows back stronger, i'm expecting a lot of big things from Oden if he can stay healthy.
     
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    bone spur? the only other injury I remember was a wrist issue in college. that he came back from early and hasn't exhibited any issues with since.
     
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    Due to flawed philosophy. Even at the time of the draft, Bowie wasn't seen as as talented as Jordan. Teams just felt you couldn't "build around" a guard (Thorn, the guy who drafted Jordan, himself said it on draft night, amusingly enough) and therefore you should take any quality big man, almost regardless of talent disparity.

    That's why I've never felt that the Bowie/Jordan vs. Oden/Durant comparison made much sense. Oden wasn't seen as less talented than Durant. In fact, scouts mostly felt Oden was the more talented prospect in addition to being a big man. Oden wasn't a reach, Bowie was.
     
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    I thought the collision with Maggettie's knee brace caused a little bit of bone to separate from his leg which is a bone spur is it not?
     
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    i forgot about that one.
     
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    He didn't have surgery for that did he? I thought some people speculated it was a contributing factor to his patella fracture though.
     
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    A chipped bone isn't a bone spur. A bone spur is a growth on healthy bone.
     
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    Whuhhh?? Bowie was as good as Ewing, but not up to the Olajuwon/Walton class. Bowie had a lot more fame than Jordan. He was in every mainstream newspaper from high school on, while Jordan became noticeable to the layman only when he was one of several guys who won NCAA with No. Carolina. You talk about Bowie as if he's a Greg Ostertag.
     
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