that’s not cool.

I hope he’s taking it well. I’m not :(

this is better than the whole day-to-day thing.

He’s fine. We’re secretly having him bulk up so we can spring him out right before the play-offs and dominate in a surprising fashion.

we need him back for this playoff RUN.

Ben, this thursday gonna be a pretty big HIT, at the agency ehhh. can we bring a guest or tooo

He bumps knees and is out a full month and at least 11 games. Trying to stay positive. Finding it difficult.

have to keep waiting until it all goes away on it’s own. All because of Maggette. Greg’s body has problems healing or something.

from the Pheonix Suns down here?
I am really curious, what are they doing? What treatment is he getting. Why did they not know how long and bad this would be. Nobody has answered these question at all.

another indication that my darkest suspicions regarding Oden are probably true.

sigh

we’ll find out about Martell – either the boot is coming off tomorrow or he’s done for the season. Brian Hendrickson reports:

But because his type of injury heals slowly, Webster said improvements are only noticeable a month at a time. Because of that, Webster’s next examination would not take place until early April if doctors don’t clear him on Tuesday. And waiting that long to be cleared could make a return futile.

Greg secretly got Microfracture surgery again and the team won’t let this news out.

so so so stupid. I can’t take it anymore with Oden, it’s unreal.

Let me guess: He hasn’t missed a game.

to realize he needs season ending surgery that will fix a problem that could have had him back for the start of the playoffs had they done it in the first place.

Blazers just don’t want to say it’s season ending now, just drag it on until they have to face the truth.

That, or in 10 days he will be fine and return. In this case they really weren’t lying.

I heard the surgery to remove a bone chip is only a 2 week recovery time, so maybe he has already done it and it is a political move to keep opponents on their heels and not know who to gameplan for. Hopefully all will be back to normal soon. I want greg to start coming off of the bench though. Pryz is playing tooooo well!

That’s based on what I recall hearing back then: that there’s a two-week recovery time from removing the chip.

Why on earth is the Blazer organization cursed with a medical/ training staff that continually gambles in an effort to get guys back a couple games quicker? And gambles wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME??

Now they’re gambling yet again—throwing good money after bad. If they’re WRONG again, and GO has to undergo the surgery 10 days from now, his season will be essentially over.

Is this the best staff Paul Allen’s money can buy? Up until now, I’ve tried to reserve judgement. But come on: this is ridiculous.

Maybe Greg can try it again next year. I mean I guess I feel bad for the guy, but I want to watch my team win basketball games. And he’s not ready now to help and who know if he will ever be. At least Durant blew out his ankle or I’d depressed.

In summary: Greg Oden, yawn.

except they know what they’re missing. we may never get to find out. Oden’s career is like the stock market. you keep thinking it will improve, then it doesn’t, and you really wish you’d just put your money in a CD.

jk jk jk

you’ll never remember this period. The banners are going to look pretty good tho.

his bodygaurd and a bunch of barely 21 girls….Then the knee would get better! I smell another immature Big MONEY player in the Blazers future. I really wish we would have kept McRoberts around to keep him busy plaing Gears of War or something.

what does this really say about Portland’s medical staff? I’m no medical doctor, but if you’re diagnosed with bone chips, don’t you have the knee opened up and the chips sucked out?

Portland buys Phoenix’s draft pick every year so maybe this year Portland should buy their medical staff. Shaq dropped 45 on the Raptors and looked spry against the Lakers on Sunday.

while it’s too bad that he’s injured, he has not been proving himself well on the court when he is well. joel przybilla is a much better center, and is improving, whereas oden is not. in fact, many nights he doesn’t even look interested in playing.

i think it’s time he spends the time to get well, then earn a starting position after coming off the bench for a bit. i think this will do way more for his work ethic and abilities than anything else. i’d like to see him succeed. but first i’d like to see him show a bit of spark.

is there any chance our medical staff is a bust? It is really hard to understand why anyone thought he would just cruise back into ‘any game now’ one day, then its ‘just a game or two away’, and now it is.. ?

as for Oden.. get better, big guy.. the team will be here when you are healthy..

On Feb 25

Too little info is hindering me here. technically there is no such animal as a "chip" fracture….so I can’t really tell you what they mean….

If they are talking about a Osteochondral fracture, a piece of the underside of the patellae, bone and cartilege, would be under the kneecap and detached…

I have assumed they were talking about a Marginal fracture, where a corner or edge of the bone is cracked, since the ostechondral type usually immediately will disrupt the ability to extend the leg all the way…

If it is a marginal fracture – – nothing to do but let it heal…the bruising underneath effects the fat pad and bursa there, and the mending of that soft tissue will lead to pain and swelling, but no instability or risk going forward…In the Osteochondral fracture, the fragment can migrate back into the knee joint causing discomfort and some catching, but this is generally obvious immediately with the inability to straighten the leg the whole way…

On Feb 17, regarding if Oden would need arthroscopic surgery to flush out the chip:

They were to look at things futher today I thought….chip fractures can be nothing if the chip isn’t in a place where it interferes with movement….if it’s "floating" around, the made need to go in and get it but even that would be minor….mostly surface irritation – – – – ice pack, discomfort, probably adrenaline alone would push him through

would depend on a bunch of things…
size of the fragment and it’s location are the big two…how much of the patellar ligament would have to be disturbed (good news is that the patella is completely encased in that ligament which tends to hold everything in place)…its very much up at the surface though which is good…would expect a VERY short recovery regardless….some of the swelling he experience was likely from the impact, not neccessarily the fracture…picture the kneecap getting slammed straight back into the bone….gonna bruise up in there…

Dallas lost to the Durant/Green-less Mavs tonight. wooooooo!!!!

I think we learned something in the SA game
that is more important than rushing GO back – INTENSITY
When Greg gets back, so much the better.

This stinks. Get well soon Greg, and don’t listen to idiots like Clownzano who advocated he “come back a little early like Steve Blake”. He needs to get healthy, hopefully that happens by playoff time, but if not, the future is what’s important. # 52

Who didn’t see this one coming? The whole speculation thing is probably the part that bothers me the most. They need to take the original injury timespan and triple it. I know this has to hurt Greg the most but when is this going to end? I guess we didn’t have Greg last year and survived and we are doing pretty dang good right now without him. The positive is we can only be better when he gets back whenever that might be. The negative of this is he is missing time he could be using to work on the little things rookie centers have to deal with in the NBA, especially once the games tighten up in the playoffs. We just have to hold down the fort until then.

After an injury filled college career, Roy had the heel thing that was supposed to go away over a week, then more, then more, then… like, 25 games later, he was okay. Until he wasn’t.

And of course, LMA’s rookie year started with shoulder surgery and ended with a g’oll dang heart problem.

Point is, this is super frustrating, as every little negative thing is with our franchise center. But it isnt long term issues, and crap like this does happen to a LOT of players early in their careers.

We’re lucky we’re more than a good enough team to handle Oden being out, but for the playoffs and for the future the more Oden plays, the better off we will ALWAYS be. This really sucks and frustrates me as a fan, and I dislike the crap a kid like Oden gets just for getting a raw knee knocking deal.

Mortimer

I swear I typed on this blog or Oregonlive about a week ago that either another 2-3 games or longer was going to be announced before the Indiana game. After this 7-10 day stretch, I’m thinking either 2-3 more games or season ending surgery o remove the chip……seriously.

It is better to not even care or think about Oden. Release that bad energy and focus on the real. The reason we have our current record is because B Roy is a freaking savage and LA has stepped up as well. Any bench player can come in a give us some nice points as well (Travis, Bayless, etc. ). We are not that dependant on Oden so just dont think about it.

I used to hope and imagine of what he could be on the court, but I have left those thoughts behind.

It’s not like we’re poised to go on a championship run this year. I mean yeah I’m bummed but in the bigger picture this is totally, totally irrelevant.

And the Willis Reed comparisons are beyond ridiculous. As if this were game 7 of the finals…. anyway, the guy limped in, hit a couple of jump hooks, and then limped out for the rest of the game while Walt Frazier and his teammates hit every shot they took while the aging Lakers stood there dumbfounded. Big freaking deal.

Me jumping off the hawthorne bridge with a bloodstained Brandon Roy Lakers jersey wrapped around my neck connected by a rope.

The whole Webster injury has been fairly devastating, for me at least. I was stoked to see how this guy was going to advance this season. I almost bought a Webster jersey there for a while assuming the injury reports were correct and he was going to be back right after all-star break. Good thing I have come to just not believe anything our medical staff tells us at this point. I guess thats just how the NBA works. Organizations are afraid to come out and give it to people straight. Maybe fear of a backlash or drop in sales? I honestly don’t know why.
       All I know is if I’m a Lakers fan which i never, ever will be, I am not looking for Bynum to be back this season.

His whole “I looked him in the eyes and asked him” is drivel, but apparently nobody in the organization is saying that they are concerned about some bigger problem with this injury and structurally he is cleared to play from a medical perspective, yet Greg just says it still hurts too much and Nate didn’t like that he wasn’t yet running smoothly again.

Pritchard:
“His body is getting better, his knee is getting better, but the thing is he had a … chipped bone and that thing has got to heal. The big thing for us is we want him to get healthy and once he’s healthy, there won’t be any aggravation of (the knee).”

us to get some perspective (yeah…..right) and be extremely pleased that Joel is a Blazer. I mean really, Joel has played most of the minutes available at the center position for the nearly 2 years Oden has been a Blazer. I am SO freaking glad he wasn’t traded away.

All this nonsense about him being day to day was wearing thin. We know definitively that Greg Oden in 2009 cannot be counted on to contribute a thing. At this point, I’d like to see him just come off the bench when (and if) he returns from this latest injury.

Maybe he should have his mommy fly out here to take care of him. You know, fluff his pillows and make him soup and the such.

I’ve heard multiple people say that Greg should relax and take some time off, not rush things, take some time to decompress.

Whaaaaa???

This bum plays 45 games and people feel sorry for him! I’m soooooo sorry that the NBA is so tough and playing 40 games in 2 years has wrecked his mental. GET OVER IT. Get in shape and get on the damn court. I’m tired of hearing the “dont be so hard on Oden, you might lose him”. Screw that, this guy does not deserve all the baby treatment. man up big fella.

Hi docs, love you guys, just kidding. Good luck.