Saw that Greg Oden is out for the season and I felt bad for the cat. There's enough pressure being the number 1 pick in the NBA draft and the savior of a team in a very basketball depressed town like Portland. But Portland also has the curse of Sam Bowie, the very injured big man who was chosen before the GOAT (#23)(and after Hakeem the Dream), and Oden was going to break this curse. Also, he was going to be the face of the revived TrailBlazers and complete their transformation from being the "JailBlazers". Guess not, at least for now. What's worse is that Oden will come back (he's only 19), but if Kevin Durant, the only true freshman EVER to sweep all of the major college basketball awards in one season, becomes the next coming of even Ray Allen, Oden will never be able to shake the tag of being a bust (Kwame Brown anyone?) unless he puts up wins and stats. Wins maybe, but stats are not his forte. He'll score in double-digits, but I doubt he'll ever average 20 points in a season. His best years will look like this: 17 ppg, 12 rpg, 2 apg, 5 blks. Good stats. Not great. Probably not good enough to shake the bust tag.
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