The Greg Oden Watch "OFFICIAL" Thread...

Great revisionist history going on here. He NEVER said he didn't want to be here and he ALWAYS did his best in rehab. But you guys can believe your made up stories if you want. smh

 

Yours, and everybody else's judgement of Greg is bullshit. Walk a mile seriously.

Oden to Have Arthroscopic Knee Surgery

Remember it like it was yesterday, he goes in for a scope and comes out with MF performed.

 

Hmmm you sure about that?!

http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id...-overall-pick-greg-oden-injury-plagued-career

"For starters, Portland isn't a great city to live in if you're a young, African American male with a lot of money," Greg explained with an embarrassed grin. "But that's especially true if you don't have anybody to guide you. Since I was hurt the entire season, I was on my own a bunch and didn't have veteran teammates around to help me adapt to the NBA lifestyle."

"After those pictures hit the Internet, Greg says he locked himself in his house for three straight days until Portland personnel knocked on his door and essentially dragged him to the gym for rehab. Going forward, he found it difficult to show his face in public, assuming everyone was thinking about the pictures and laughing to themselves."

Sounds like he didn't even want to rehab....

 

It should be fun seeing Greg Oden and Dwight Howard going at it in the Finals! Great first year for Adam Silver huh?

 

No, you are the one uniformed. When doctors view an MRI they can't get a perfect look at the knee, in his case they knew a minor procedure was necessary and a possible defect needed to be inspected. When they cleared up the knee and put a camera inside the doctors could get a better view of the defect and saw that it required mircofracture. A year later Oden made a complete recovery and played for those 82 games plus the playoffs.

There might have been numerous mistakes made by the Blazers and their training staff, but deciding to perform the initial microfracture was not one of them.

 

Your own link doesn't support that. It supports what I'm saying. Nice that you edited this part out:

What is exploratory surgery for? It's to see if there's anything else wrong. They did the surgery based upon Greg complaining of pain, having an MRI that showed "cartilage problems" (media speak).

Greg was NOT healthy and needed Micro-fracture surgery. The exploratory surgery proved that. Do you think we would have given him the worst surgery he could have on his knee unless we were really sure he needed it?

 

Also, do you think that we would cut open his knee and do exploratory surgery if the MRI (which showed "cartilage problems") results weren't bad?

I think it's media spin to say 2 things:

Cartilage "problems" and "exploratory surgery".

I believe they speculated that they were going to have to do MF before the "exploratory surgery" but they didn't want to let it out until they knew for sure.

 

Truth. Repp'd.

 

He actually got a reduced contract, if memory serves.

 

He missed 20-some games his rookie year, too. Remember the first game of his career against the Lakers? Steps awkwardly and "SPRAINED" HIS FOOT after 13 minutes of PT! This was in his first game after missing his entire rookie season. Missed the next two weeks. Quite the start to a career.

 

We reduced the contract to 1.5MM

 

Where does he say he doesn't want to be in Portland in that quote?

 

Walk a mile in the shoes of an athletic freak of a man with tons of money that he hasn't had to work for? Gladly. You seriously think his life has been hard? When I see athletes who have been injured talk about their trials and tribulations like they were starving to death in Africa I can hardly contain my contempt.

And your "he wasn't injured" bullshit has already been shot down easily.

 

And that quote doesn't say he wasn't good about re-habbing either. You guys make me illl sometimes with your made up bullshit.

 

It's pretty well implied. As is him not being committed to rehab. He was more worried about social media, drinking, and how white Portland is to leave his home too often!

 

Do you know how to draw conclusions from things that are said?

 

Sounds like he was embarrassed.

 

That's the problem. You're drawing conclusions based on inferences from an article. That's ridiculous.

 

That was said? I wasn't aware...

 

He talks trash about the city and was dragged out of his house to rehab. Sounds like someone completely disconnected to me