Celebrated Trail Blazers rookie center Greg Oden, the No. 1 pick in the NBA draft, will likely miss the 2007-08 season after undergoing knee surgery Thursday, the team said.
Doctors found cartilage damage during an exploratory procedure, and team physician Dr. Don Roberts performed microfracture surgery to repair the damage.
"There are things about this that are positive for Greg," Roberts said in a statement posted on the Trail Blazers' Web site. "First of all, he is young. The area where the damage was is small and the rest of his knee looked normal. All those are good signs for a complete recovery from microfracture surgery."
Seven-footer Greg Oden will spend pretty much all of his first season in the NBA on the Trail Blazers' bench.
The 7-foot center is expected to be on crutches for up to eight weeks. A full recovery likely will take six to 12 months, the team said. Read more at ESPN
4 comments:
even if we could switch for durant, it would be pointless. this years draft is exactly like the Lebron Carmelo draft.. everyone says Anthony is gonna be great and compares him to Lebron. Sure, he is a great player but he is no Lebron James. Same thing is gonna happen w/ Durant and Oden. I can garruntee that Oden is going to be ten times better then Durant and plus, us Blazer fans are pushing a decade of bad teams, so whats one more season gonna hurt? Oden WAS and IS the right pick for the blazers even if he is gonna be out for this season. and to Durant lovers, the kid can hardly bench 180 lbs, and Oden did better then him in the ballhandling drills and sprints for the blazers scouts, so i think that i rest my case in saying Oden was a way better choice for our boys down in portland.
Oden is the future, it's going to take a little longer to rebuild. He's only 19 and looks like he's thirty. I would way rather have Oden, durant is slow and he's not strong. I'm still going to watch Brandon Roy and the rest of the young guys, when Oden comes back it's going to be awesome.
The silver-lining in Oden's departure for 2007-2008 season...we are in the lottery again!
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