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Portland Trail Blazers center Greg Oden will undergo microfracture surgery and will miss the entire 2007-2008 NBA season. Oden was the first overall selection in the 2007 NBA Draft.
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Trailblazers center Greg Oden will have microfracture knee surgery, effectively ending his chances of playing in the upcoming season. Oden, the first overall selection in the 2007 NBA Draft, had arthroscopic exploratory surgery on his right knee earlier this week in order to determine the proper action to be taken to alleviate discomfort he had been experiencing. Unfortunately for the young center, what the doctors found was extensive cartiledge damage. The treatment for this kind of...
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You've probably heard and read enough about Greg Oden and Kevin Durant to the point where the draft can't come soon enough. We agree. So we won't waste your time here with things like points, rebounds, steals and blocked shots, but we'd like to try to enlighten you on why those numbers are just a small part of what these young men, expected to go 1-2 in Thursday night's NBA draft, are about and why they are so special. The Courant checked in with Texas coach Rick Barnes and Ohio State...
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NBA Fans learned earlier this Summer that the number one pick in the 2007 NBA Draft Greg Oden would not be playing in the NBA regular season opener. In fact he will not play at all in the 2007-2008 campaign as he underwent microfracture surgery on his knee. Now there is a possibility that the number two pick of the draft, Seattle’s Kevin Durant could also be on the bench for the NBA season debut. The Seattle Post Intelligencer reported Thursday that a MRI revealed that Durant had sprained...
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Charlotte Bobcat’s forward Sean May has taken a very pro-active approach to trying to get his troublesome right knee into NBA playing shape. His hopes are by undergoing an extensive process, and missing most likely the entire 2007-2008 NBA season, he can get his knee problems behind him that have hindered his career so far in the Pros. May will undergo microfracture surgery on the knee on Tuesday, to repair damage in the knee which has only allowed him to play in just 58 games out of a...
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Last year, nothing would have stopped Kevin Durant from having a rookie of the year season since Greg Oden was raw and skinny. Sitting out a year actually ...
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Groce won the 2006 recruiter of the year from Rivals.com after landing top recruits Greg Oden, Mike Conley and Daequan Cook. The following season he helped ...
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... Smith (Scribe) The great debate before the 2007 NBA Draft, as you probably remember, was whether the Trailblazers should pick Greg Oden or Kevin Durant. ...
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First, the easy part – he selects Greg Oden with the No. 1 pick. Although I was in favor of Kevin Durant with that pick, I can’t fault him for choosing the ...
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For the fourth time in the last two years, an OSU freshman basketball player was selected in the NBA draft's first round. Seven-foot center Kosta Koufos was selected 23rd overall by the Utah Jazz. In 2007, freshmen Greg Oden, Mike Conley Jr. and Daequan Cook were all selected in the draft's first...
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1 pick in Greg Oden and, with the NBA's youngest lineup, are a team clearly headed in the right direction - something that cannot necessarily be said for ...
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Greg Oden was the number one overall pick of the 2007 NBA Draft, while Kevin Durant went to the Seattle Super Sonics at two. This was a great time to be a ...
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The greatest threat to break through from this season's also-rans is not the team that failed to make the playoffs despite 48 victories. As competitive as the Warriors stood, they have issues, major issues, what with the uncertainty surrounding coach ...
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- Portland Trail Blazers 2008 Draft Preview (topix.com)
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Obviously a healthy Greg Oden would have helped boost those numbers slightly, but either way they should serve as a commentary on the limited opportunities ...
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