
It’s not a good decade to be a Portland Trail Blazer apparently. First, former All-Star Brandon Roy, who was expected to simply be the team’s amnesty clause pick before he signed on elsewhere, announced that he was retiring because of his degenerative knee issues, and that sucks because he could have been great. Meanwhile, LaMarcus Aldridge will miss a few weeks after being diagnosed with Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, which sounds cool-scary-bad at dancing. And then there’s poor, old Greg Oden.
Possibly feeling that he owed something to the team that drafted him, Oden signed a 1-year, $8.9 million deal with the Blazers, and everyone involved hoped that this would be the year that he at least cushioned the blow of that whole drafted-before-Kevin-Durant thing. Well, we’re going to have to wait a few months to find out, because he has suffered yet another setback in his own knee surgeries, hence the crutches in his recent team photo above.
And that photo has me wondering, is this the saddest thing you’ve ever seen or what? I’ve seen boxes of puppies left on the side of a road look happier than this. Poor guy, maybe he’ll finally be 100% when the Miami Heat sign him for a dollar next season.


$8.9 Milion? Are you fucking serious? No wonder the NBA is fucked.
He’s a chameleon.
Hard to feel bad for a guy who likely has round 40 million in the bank and has yet to play more than 50 (?) games in his career. If I was getting ready to be drafted by the Blazers I’d Eli Manning the fuck out of that draft. Rest assure if Durant was picked instead, he’d probably have the knee issues and Oden would be the most dominant big man ever playing for OKC.
I’m still sad about Brandon Roy retiring. What could have been. What could have been. As for Oden, it’s hard to feel bad for someone who has made millions for about 4 months of work in his entire “career.” I guess it’s impressive that he could sort of hang in the NBA despite being 55
The worst part is they gave him those Cerebral palsy crutches.
im willing to bet he goes to another team next season and owns everyone…
Greg expressed surprise at the audience’s enthusiasm, and described them as “great.”
Ummmm – this picture was taken in 2007… fact check guys. Come on.
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i hope he gets healthy soon. before he brandon roys
I know that I am so late to the party that no one will even read this comment but…
I agree with Speirsy. This guy is getting another 9 million dollars this year?!?!?! I’m 31, unemployed, still owe student loans, recently took out a car-title loan to pay my rent, and I still have not made 1 million dollars in my lifetime. And somebody’s giving this geriatric another 9 million dollars! What the fcuk!!