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Now, Everybody Knows Oden Was Injury-Prone
Now, Everybody Knows Oden Was Injury-Prone
Filed under: Trail Blazers , Western , NBA Injuries , The Word With Greg Oden sitting out the year, a lot of voices are cropping to second-guess the Blazers' choice. Since Kevin Durant will play and Oden won't, Portland clearly went in the wrong direction. This logic is, to say the least, idiotic. Unless, of course, it was known all along that Oden might have knee problems. From Yahoo ...
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Did Portland Know?
the Blowtorch — ... . I would surmise that there must have been some sort of underlying problem with his knee (and I'm not the only one), and either the Blazers team didn't catch it or they thought it wasn't serious enough to worry about. Or perhaps there was something more sinister to this. ...

FanHouse: Fri AM 'Overcovering Patriotgate and Oden' Edition
John Clifford Ness — ... Now, Everybody Knows Oden Was Injury-Prone: You heard a little bit of this around the time of the draft, but it didn't seem like Portland or Seattle took it too seriously at the time. And still, Oden's upside and can't-miss status were--are--worth this gamble. ...

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