"Oden will need surgery, but will try to play through the pain. He'll get surgery on the knee in...

"Oden will need surgery, but will try to play through the pain. He'll get surgery on the knee in the offseason"

I was watching Sportscenter, and this is according to Ric Bucher

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This is how I see this playing out

Przybilla will be starting the rest of the season, with Oden coming in for spot duty. No point in shoe horning Oden into the starting lineup if you don’t know if he’s gonna play day-to-day. Its about playoffs, not Oden’s development the rest of the season.

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by blzrfan on Mar 3, 2009 12:05 PM PST reply actions

Kinda lame that there is no context.

Why did he say that? Was he speaking from his gut? Was he relaying information from a contact within the organization? Was he simply saying “this is the feeling of media personnel?”

Is this news, or an unqualified sound byte?

You posted it as news, and I would hope you could substantiate it with some background.

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by everett on Mar 3, 2009 12:05 PM PST reply actions

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by BlazerFan88 on Mar 3, 2009 12:19 PM PST reply actions

Everything I have heard says surgery is not an option

If surgery does take place it should be arthroscopic. Meaning a recovery time of about a month.

Knock on wood

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by 123_G.O._RipCity on Mar 3, 2009 1:04 PM PST up reply actions

If its just taking out a bone chip right on the surface recovery could be as short as 2 weeks I believe.

Personally I wish he would have gotten it to begin with.

by Bskey on Mar 3, 2009 1:43 PM PST up reply actions

yep

hindsight is 20/20, but you’ve gotta wonder if they had scoped the knee right after the all-star break maybe Greg would be pain-free by now?

FWIW, the Portland medical staff has been second-guessed since the days of Bill Walton

by two4larue on Mar 3, 2009 4:08 PM PST up reply actions

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by lanepete on Mar 4, 2009 6:52 AM PST up reply actions

How does he know this?

Did he say who his source was? Why isn’t this reported elsewhere?

by JasonT on Mar 3, 2009 1:05 PM PST reply actions

it is reported elsewhere. i linked to a hoopsworld article a week ago and got blasted for it. watching PTI right now, and they're talking about it too.

no doctors are quoted, but it seems at least among national media that oden WILL need surgery. I find his answers to ben’s questions today disconcerting (specifically is it the bone chip causing the pain?)

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by nima on Mar 3, 2009 3:45 PM PST up reply actions

I don't see that

I think GO just didn’t want to say the chip is certainly the problem when he doesn’t know that. Presumably, he could be still dealing with the effects of the blow to his kneecap. So he said he needs to talk to his doctors some more. Nothing dire there that I can see.

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by hurryup09 on Mar 3, 2009 6:29 PM PST up reply actions

It was in the Sportscenter

Buzz thing, and one of the anchors just read the quote from Ric Bucher. They didn’t give any sources, just that it was according to ESPN NBA Insider Ric Bucher. I dunno why it isn’t anywhere else, I looked and couldn’t find it on ESPN.com when he said it. Sorry for not having anymore clarification.

by usdblazerfan on Mar 3, 2009 1:17 PM PST reply actions

all good. no worries.

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by broyposse on Mar 3, 2009 1:23 PM PST up reply actions

there probably isn't a concrete source

it just seems like common sense to me. Athletes get this kind of minor surgery during the off-season to clean up their various nagging injuries, like with B-Roy and his knee last summer. By all reports it should be a minor arthroscopic procedure to flush out the chip. Brandon ended up just fine after his operation, so I don’t see any cause for concern at this point, particularly if Greg has it done early in the summer to give himself time to prep for training camp.

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by abdelnaby on Mar 3, 2009 2:37 PM PST up reply actions