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Didactic
http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id...-overall-pick-greg-oden-injury-plagued-career
Very good, insider interview of Greg Oden. Really makes you wonder if our training staff can do anything for him. Its kind of hard to feel bad for a young man in his twenties that doesn't have to work for the rest of his life (if he was smart with his money), but I do feel the kid got some bad breaks.
Very good, insider interview of Greg Oden. Really makes you wonder if our training staff can do anything for him. Its kind of hard to feel bad for a young man in his twenties that doesn't have to work for the rest of his life (if he was smart with his money), but I do feel the kid got some bad breaks.
Although Greg never took my bait and blamed the Blazers for his premature return, it's impossible not to wonder if Portland's medical staff contributed to any of the problems Greg endured during his injury-plagued career. This isn't to say Greg never would've gotten hurt had he played somewhere else, but Portland's medical staff has long been rumored to be less than stellar.4 At any rate, nobody can deny that Greg genuinely felt pressured — either by the Blazers, their doctors, his own guilt, or all three — to return to the court before his body was ready. That's why he claims he wasn't surprised that he needed a second microfracture surgery. That's why he responded to the news by shrugging his shoulders and saying "OK" as if he had just been told by a McDonald's employee that the McFlurry machine wasn't working.