Uh, no. Nobody's "injury situation" has ever looked as bad as Oden's. He gets injured just walking down the street.
What evidence do you have that it's his 'hypersensitivy' to pain that keeps him from playing? I trust that it is the doctors decision, and not Greg's, that he isn't playing. If it were safe for him to play, he surely would.
My evidence is that the doctor says the injury physically healed almost a year ago, as this type of injury always does. What's holding things up is Oden's rehabilitation therapy. It hasn't decreased the pain. There is something unusual in his nerves or synapses or something, beyond current medical technology, that makes the pain linger practically forever when he overexerts the knee (e.g. playing hard), but not in normal daily activity (e.g. walking). All they can do is to hope the pain has a finite time limit and will eventually end with therapy and exercise. It's his agent's job to maximize his career earnings, so he will stretch this out as many years as he can. Over the years, with whatever his team is then, Oden may play a little right before each time a contract ends, to spark contract offers.
Interesting but do you have evidence to back that up? First of all Greg had Microfracture a year ago November - so how could that injury have healed a year ago? It usually takes 9-12 months for MF to heal enough to play. I did not know about his lingering pain thing, are there any links on that?
This board carried the news that the doctor said it was healed. I think the year to which you refer includes time for rehabilitation, and the physical healing finishes before that. What I AM sure of is that it was on this board 2-3 months ago that the doctor said that the physical healing had completed months earlier. This brought some sense into it because everyone on the board who knows about this surgery had been saying that it should have healed months earlier. It turned out that it had, and it's now an issue about rehabilitation and therapy. So I've been saying that there's nothing unusual about Oden's healing mechanisms--there's something unusual about his pain sensations. Speculation: We all block out pain subconsciously so that the conscious mind can focus on goals. Maybe his mental pain blocking mechanism is less effective than that of most people. Whatever, I don't think that science will solve this problem within the span of his career. So I don't expect him to play many games over the years. Only when his agent tells him, you gotta go through the pain for a couple of weeks because this summer is contract time.
