Damn dude. Not cool, Oden. Not cool at all. No more NBA career for him, though there wasn't much left.
Nobody said it was an excuse or a reason. We said alcohol was probably involved. Nobody is making excuses for him.
Oden was drunk and misunderstood what his girlfriend meant when she asked him if he wanted court time.
Some people will continue to cling to the meme that Oden is just an innocent bystander to his own life.
I wonder if there were any red flags on his draft psych evaluation. If so, it must have not carried much weight during the the selection process.
Unless the police are lying, he admitted it and went with the police to be booked. Even worse for Oden, there were witnesses who tried to restrain him, and that's by his own admission. Since as far as I can tell this is first arrest for anything, he'll probably plea into a diversion program. I hope he also gets professional help, because from a distance, he appears to have been dealing with depression for 6 years now.