Greg Oden Suffers Life-Ending Injury; Gets 3-Year Extension

that gets deleted 45 minutes after getting posted.

I thought it was pretty funny, but I’ll take it down myself if it’s too much. I don’t want to upset anyone.

love me some dark humour.
this is in bad taste, but is dark enough to be redeeming.

you guys were such big Luke Babbitt fans. Wait, this is the ‘poor taste’ we’re talking about, right?

lol

i rec’d it. i think we should keep signing the dude up to just before this point. the joke’s kinda on me in that way…

Through humor.

Dark humor.

I think the reason some people are upset at you portraying Oden as dead is that they don’t fully grasp the object of your satire. Despite portraying him as a corpse, you are really attacking everyone but Oden—the seemingly endless optimism of the front office, the undying wish that selecting him as the number one pick might somehow work. I say you played exactly the right card: many people seemingly won’t give up on Oden despite his obvious inability to play.

Rec.

I appreciate the good feedback!

…and see it as more satire aimed at Blazer Management and how they handle the media, as opposed to actual satire about Oden and Death.

I actually think it is very, very good.

However? If Oden should happen to die in the next few days? Please delete this post and all the responses…and we shall never talk of this again….

Maybe you didn’t mean it this way, Sarbonis, but I take it as a satirical reminder that, hey, we are NOT dealing with something big like life and death. It’s just basketball.

Thats funny. Even if it is morbid. What else can Blazer fans do but laugh at this point ??

The post procedure comments.

This involves death! OOoooooopppoooo!

Everyone loves it when you rip on agents.

As for the rest, Blazer fans are pretty sensitive (still) about this draft having been on anyone’s short list for Unluckiest Pick Ever. And many people feel sorry for Mr. Oden himself. I do too, but there are uncountable numbers of athletes out there who had the raw talent to make it in sports yet whose bodies couldn’t handle the physical impact. Some have their sports careers ended in college before they can turn pro, others in high school before they can get a college scholarship. Oden got paid enough to finish college and have a great safety net left over. His is a sad story but there are many sadder.

So go right ahead and have a sense of humor about it! Well done.

And a rec for you my son.

I was just thinking about the Oden situation this morning and being generally depressed…then I read this and had a good laugh. If you can’t laugh about it you just end up crying…

Don’t know whether to slap my knee or reach through the screen.

Wet my tighty whitey pants funny!!

Total includes regular, pre/post season games.

If I ran this site, I’d smash this post with the ban hammer.
But then I realized…
If we were in 5th grade choosing sides for a basketball game,
And you died last year in 4th grade from an enormous gargantuan pimple,
I’d still pick you to be on my team.
You’re just that much of a difference maker.

Laughed out loud through the whole article!

As they like to point out: You can’t teach 7 ft height. Especially not if it comes with such strength and mobility as he once displayed as a bonus. He’s the ultimate high risk – high reward pick for a team next summer. Or a lesson in accepting sunk costs and moving on. If they decide to bring Greg back, do the Blazers keep throwing good money after bad, or do they finally reap the rewards of their patience and get the performance they hoped for. Potentially even on a pretty fair extension if Greg feels like he still owes them something for all the trouble (which can be debated at as much length as the likelihood of him playing again at a high level).

Until they either figure out and proclaim publicly that he has a structural issue in his body that will never allow him to play basketball for any extended period of time, or he decides it is just not worth it anymore to go through rehab after rehab hoping to get healthy again and calls it quits (on his own or on advice of a few doctors). I’d not expect either of those to happen next offseason since he still seems willing to try a comeback, however close or far away it may be. So some team will get their hopes up that the big fella will suit up for them in 2012-13 and offer him that extension. Though as we recently saw with Brandon the end of a career can come virtually overnight.

It is one thing to be frustrated at the situation the team finds itself in with Greg and as a fan to be frustrated is pretty much expected. However this borders on the macabre in my opinion. I know you’re main point is to criticize the management’s handling of the situation, but I think you’re way off base even there.

I know I’m not going to score any popularity points with this opinion, but I find it rather disturbing how people write someone off completely. Greg’s injuries are not his fault. There is no evidence of them even being related to each other. The latest scopes on his knees aren’t indicative of any permanent disability. I still believe drafting Oden was the right fit for the team at the time and that he’s still going to have a good career once he’s back from his last micro-fracture surgery. You all can think whatever you want about my optimism, but there’s more evidence for the positive perspective than there is for the negative. There isn’t any team in this league that won’t give him a chance. And no fan-base is going to look down their nose at a 7-footer with his offensive capabilities.

I hope he comes back and plays along-side LaMarcus, learns from Camby and turns into that center that we’ve needed to really dominate the offensive glass. Hes still got that potential, and you don’t just write that off.