Portland Trail Blazers: 2008 Worth the Wait...Unless You're Greg Oden

The Portland Trailblazers have already selected and been pushing their 2008 advertising slogan. "2008:Worth the Wait". In the Game Guides the eager Rose Garden staff thrust into your hands as you enter before each game there are rotating fans writing about why they are excited about 2008...even though when those articles started the Blazers were actually in 8th position in the Western Conference for this year. That is how excited the franchise is about the expected arrival of a healthy Greg Oden to anchor the middle in 2008 and for years to come. It is assumed that behind Oden, LaMarcus Aldridge, Travis Outlaw and Brandon Roy the Blazers will have a lengthy run of making the playoffs, going deep in the playoffs, and hopefully winning a couple of titles, maybe more if the proper pieces can be put in place around them. Meanwhile, the team has done everything they can to insure that Oden's recovery from microfracture surgery goes strictly according to Hoyle. They have said in no ... (link)