In only his second NBA season, despite missing what would've been his rookie season in 2007, Portland Trailblazers center Greg Oden will miss yet another season due to injury. The first overall pick in the 2007 NBA Draft will once again have to watch his team from the sidelines as he undergoes season ending surgery. The young Oden who's been known to have bad knees since being drafted as an Ohio State Buckeye will have to undergo his second knee surgery in as many seasons. Although this is no laughing matter, I'm beginning to ask, as I'm sure Oden has done the same, 'Could he be jinxed?' There's no doubt that at his young age, Oden is way too injury prone. As Oden goes down with his fourth injury already in only two seasons, critics are already starting to cry out 'BUST!' At a monstrous 7-foot, Oden's knees were bound to go out at some point and time, but at 21 years old?
It's one thing to look like your 50 years old and another when you play like it and get injured as often as one. But if one didn't know any better, at first glance you would think Oden was a 20-year veteran or perhaps the team's coach. With all joking aside, I feel for the big man, as any real basketball fan would. That's unless you're a Blazer fan of coarse. With expectations a mile high sitting on his back, you know he's gotta feel bad as well. & With a young squad like the Blazers, you begin to wonder how his absence deflates that organization. They also begin to kick themselves thinking "Why didn't we go after Kevin Durant?" Who has sure turned into quite the stud for an improving Thunder organization. & If the weight of the team wasn't already set on the shoulders of Blazers guard Brandon Roy, then things might get a whole lot heavier in the Conference that is the Wild Wild West.
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