…of a post season miracle where we hang tough, slide into the playoffs and Greg makes a super-human return to action in time to compliment the heart and guts in took from the other guys to get us there… it’s good to dream!

GO BLAZERS!!!… get well Greg!

being able to walk when you are retired will be nicer than playing in the 2nd round this year.

OH PLEASE oh please oh please oh please… and the Lakers in the first round.. oh please oh please.

I don’t think its worth the risk. At all. We should all want him 100% when he comes back, and not even so much as 90%.

Get well soon, #52

that you can clunk people on the head with when they start the, “Greg Oden is old”, joke-a-thon.

but I don’t want to rush him.

I have a son coming off a broken leg and my fatherly side is having the same precautionary feelings towards Greg.

Take care of yourself big guy.

But I don’t want him to rush it, if he’s healthy around playoffs time that’s fine but it takes time to get into game shape and while I’ll take a rusty Greg over grandpa I’d rather see him be 100% and in game shape come next year.

for recovery, Greg could be back in May and full stride in June.

Nate left open the door at the time by saying “unlikely” return, but
also set the stage for a ‘miracle’ comeback.

He would make a difference.

Greg Oden is the Blazers Edge!

Save him for next year. There is no need to take a chance. Barring a miracle, there is no chance we make it very far in the playoffs anyway.

And be close to if not at 100% in October.

Blazer management is not going to let Greg come back this year.

Greg, Pendy, DC, and Jerryd may have more in common than people realize. They all have the determination of a bull dog. This young secondary core has what we really need, toughness . Greg said it when he went down and he is still saying it now, “I’ll be back!” That may sound like a line out of a movie, and it is, but you just can’t keep guys with attitudes like that down—make it real GO. Over the next couple years the doubters are going to be like fleas jumping off a dog that just got a super duper flea collar.

the sooner he returns the better. He just needs to be on the court. Getting a couple weeks of basketball in at the end and THEN having the summer to continue the rehab, conditioning, basketball drills, etc would be great.

Unless he gets re-injured. But what are the odds of that?!?!?!?

We are playing well enough to get there. We will certainly need all the help we can get. If the doctors clear him, go for it. What a great comeback, and nice visibility for the “Bowie” crowd.
I was thinking of keeping it as much of a secret as possible till game day, then “surprise” Greg be playin’ tonight". Time to review your game plan. As we noticed before, Greg on the floor impacts the game.
Great help, great experience, great media hype, pretty much great !

on his salary.

As far as “rushing him back”, that’s bunk. If he’s pain-free with a clean bill of health let him play. That’s like saying Rudy shouldn’t be playing right now because we “don’t want to rush him”. If a player is pain-free, let him play.