Merged: Oden has bone chip in left knee

Saw this on the olive forum. I guess Casey from blazers.com says oden has a crack in the bone (look at comments to his article) and if thats the case usually it takes a cast and 6 weeks. Blazers have no official word and oden says he will "wait till he gets back to portland"

anyone have knowledge on this injury? if its a crack its a lot worse for recovery time.

sounds kinda scary

http://trailblazerscentercourt.blogspot.com/2009/02/oden-to-miss-rookiesophomore-game-with.html

Rick_Dawg said...
Hey Casey, ESPN is reporting that Greg has a cracked patella. Can you find out if that's correct? I mean, that sounds pretty bad. How bad is this "sore knee?" Is it like last year when his knee swoll up and next thing you know, whoops, microfracture? If you could get some verification on the injury that would be great. Thanks.

FEBRUARY 13, 2009 11:55 PM
Casey Holdahl said...
That report is correct Rick. An MRI showed a cracked patella on Greg's left (non microfractured) knee.


Dwight Jaynes says the opposite

Oden: “chip fracture” of the left patella
February 14th, 2009 by Dwight Jaynes | Filed under NBA, Trail Blazers.
It was the result of that collision with Corey Maggette (they banged knees) Thursday night at Golden State.

Chip fractures, similar to avulsions, are normally not serious and when the swelling goes down, I assume he could be ready for at least limited duty. There’s a side of me that thinks Oden sitting out the silly All-Star Weekend exhibition game was a good thing — it would have been his third game in three nights. NBA teams for the last several seasons have been prohibited from playing three games in three nights but the rookie-sophomore game doesn’t count, obviously.

The Blazers list Oden as day-to-day, but as Dan and Keith used to say, “Aren’t we all?”

Go ahead, Oden haters, have at him.

 

Re: Oden out possibly 6 weeks? Anyone else hearing this?



the sky is falling

 

Re: Oden out possibly 6 weeks? Anyone else hearing this?

 

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im not trolling but look up a cracked patella

 

Re: Oden out possibly 6 weeks? Anyone else hearing this?

It's a bone chip, not a full fracture.

 

Re: Oden out possibly 6 weeks? Anyone else hearing this?

he's fine..if it were serious he wouldn't have came back in the game

 

Re: Oden out possibly 6 weeks? Anyone else hearing this?

He DOES have a bone chip?

 

Re: Oden out possibly 6 weeks? Anyone else hearing this?

Honestly, nothing would surprise me injury-wise with Oden at this point.

 

Re: Oden out possibly 6 weeks? Anyone else hearing this?

Watch the Oden Postgame video. http://www.nba.com/blazers/news/2009_allstarcentral.html

He mentions that it's not serious, and would probably have played were it a regular season game. He also says he will get it further evaluated by team doctors on Tuesday once he returns to Portland.

 

Re: Oden out possibly 6 weeks? Anyone else hearing this?

Hey Chicken Little, take a Valium. A chipped patella does not indicate casting his leg and putting him out for six weeks. Think about it, why in god's name would a doctor cast a non-weight bearing, or non-structural bone -- that's like saying they should put a cast on somebody's ass if they broke their tailbone. I'm guessing he'll wear a knee pad to keep it from getting banged around, but I'd be very surprised if he missed a single game.

 

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He also says he will get it further evaluated by team doctors on Tuesday once he returns to Portland.

thats the part that scares me....thats when you see breaking news on the espn bottom line

 

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its a crack not a chip...thats the problem

 

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It says chip. Oden said chip. OLive said chip.

It's a chip.

 

Re: Oden out possibly 6 weeks? Anyone else hearing this?

Of course that would scare you

Why wouldn't they take another look at it when gets back to Portland? Not doing so would be grossly negligent.

 

Re: Oden out possibly 6 weeks? Anyone else hearing this?

What have the Blazers said? That's what matters.

 

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I think Oden is gonna be holding a retirement press conference today at 3pm

 

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I'm not sure why MIXUM is being piled on for simply quoting something that Casey Holdahl posted on another forum.

 

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rubbish!
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Re: Oden out possibly 6 weeks? Anyone else hearing this?

Oden has been hurt for most of his competitive basketball life in one way or another. Mixum has every right to be concerned as does anyone who hopes Greg will be the hub of this teams defense!

BTW- This is exactly why making sure we have Joel signed for years to come is so FUCKING IMPORTANT!!! Our team right now doesn't miss much of a beat when Greg does go down.