Greg Oden certainly isn’t smiling today. In fact, most Blazers fans must feel like they just stepped into a pile of dog crap. That’s because Oden had microfracture knee surgery and could will miss the season. Yup, that Greg Oden. The guy we wanted to tank the season for.
”Greg had an arthroscopy and a microfracture surgery today,” team physician Dr. Don Roberts, who preformed the surgery, said in a statement posted on the Trail Blazers’ Web site. “He was found to have articular cartilage damage in his right knee. The area of injury was not large and we were able to treat it with microfracture, which stimulates the growth of cartilage.”
All the stimulation of cartilage means this:
Oden is expected to be on crutches for up to eight weeks. Full recovery likely will take six to 12 months, the team said.
Just think about this for a second. The dude was expected to come in and be a dominant player. Not only is he done for the year, but he won’t be the same next season. This is a big deal, just ask Amare Stoudemire. It took him two years to recover.
The Celtics luck might finally be changing after all. Can you imagine how despondent we’d all be, had we actually drafted Oden? (Think Mikey in “Swingers”, hunkered down in the apartment, shades drawn, buffalo wings scattered around the carpet.) All I can say is, “Sucks to be you Portland!”
(A special thanks to the always plugged-in Jessica Camerato for giving Redsarmy the scoop on this story – Check out her take on the injury.)
I can only say…. HOLY SHIT
It makes me look back at the Draft Lottery when me and Fire Doc were on the couch crying over what had just occured. How could we have guessed this to be our blessing in disguise.
And the Trail Blazers have done it again. This pretty much guarentees Durant will become Michael Jordan.
Side note: Darko gets fined $14,000 for indicating that he wanted to rape the mothers and daughters of the referees, and Belicheck gets fined $500,000 for having a useless camera on the sidelines. I’m having a tough time with this one.
Useless camera? He broke the rules Tim. Without rules, we’d live in chaos.
That’s Chuck… letter of the law. He follows every speed limit… never fudges a number on his taxes.
Yep. They broke a rule, they were punished. I hope it’s over.