This is crazy you guys. Why can't he go out? And about him being a dick or rude........ couldn't be further from the truth! One of the coolest most fun guys to be around. On the other hand my boy Joel Przybilla DOES NOT like being interrupted if we are out having dinner or something!
Oden promised never to drink again, never to go anywhere for fun again and never to eat anything but vegetables again. If I'm an NBA GM, broken promises like that are a huge red flag.
Last time I checked, pretty sure Kersey was at least spending money he EARNED by PLAYING at the bar. I wouldn't want Oden fucking for the simple fact that he would find a way to hurt himself further. Tons and tons of homers in this thread.
I don't think there's anything wrong with having high standards for what he does off the court. After all, he's cost the Blazers millions and hasn't produced squat. That said, most professional athletes can be pricks if you act over the top, or invade their space in public situations.
I know. Any objective fan would be spitting furious over the fact that Oden was in a club one night. AND DIDNT HIFIVE SOME OTHER UNNAMED CLUBGOERS!!!!11! Portland invested a #1 draft pick in the guy and he can't high-five some dudes in a club? Durant would've.
Why is it that Durant is so much better in every way? He says all the right things. Does all the right things. How did management drop the ball so badly on this one? If Portland ever gets a top pick again and has to choose between top scorer or foundation center, you have to take the score from here on out for the rest of eternity...
lol at this jonfarr guy for not getting the chance to high five oden in the club and got turned down for a pic on his blackberry. So instead he gets on ripcity to bag on oden.. Look guys if we want oden to stay with portland we cant be posting shit like this. PA also got to pony up some cash to keep him next year (quick mentioned that cho was just going to offer him the MLE). we need to offer him something right below the max.. I can just see him signing a max deal with the the heat next yearand he is exactly the player they are missing. a center that will dominate the paint and require double and tripple teams. Just watch I bets he goes to south beach
I think someone is just butthurt that Oden couldn't give two shits about you and thinks you're weird for stalking him.
who knows with the new CBA. They already have 3 max players anyway so whats one more for a deep pocket owner like Pat Riley.. he wants one thing. and thats winning ball games
I suppose it depends on how many of those things you care about. I don't care about whether an athlete says the right things, looks the right way, does the "right things." All I care about is their play...and in that respect, Durant basically does one thing better: stay healthy. And that, sadly, makes all the difference. I don't think management dropped the ball. No one was saying at the time that Oden was a serious injury concern or injury prone. Maybe there were some warning signs, but to me it seems that only in hindsight do they look ominous. I think the talent evaluation of Oden was bang on. Maybe there was damning information available pre-draft about Oden's health, but I haven't seen it. In the absence of that, I think management got unlucky.
Write down the date: I am going to actually agree with Minstrel! At the time of the draft, there was one argument for taking Durant first - he was a gym rat who lived for the game. Oden was not. As things turned out, that was an irrelevant distinction.
Chris Bosh is fake tho. Kevin Durant even said so. Fake people wont give money back they don't deserve.
Worse yet, I bet Oden has spent as much if not more time in the gym than Durant since he was drafted. Of course, Durant has been working on his game while Oden has been working on his joints.
