Greg Oden Has "No Hard Timeline" For Return

[SlyPokerDog]

Oden siting

http://twitpic.com/7lvr32

 

[MickZagger]

^Is that at the Duke/Buckeye game going on right now?

 

[PapaG]

Oden just shown on ESPN at the Ohio State/Duke game, fwiw.

I'll assume he's rehabbing in Columbus?

 

[BrianFromWA]

I don't know how I missed this thread before...

Last year (october-ish time frame) Conley and the Blazers met for talks over Greg's extension. From the Blazers' side:

Blazers general manager Rich Cho said he had spoken with Oden's agent, Bill Duffy, but the two sides never talked extension. Cho said that is not an indication of the Blazers' interest in re-signing Oden, but rather the team taking a wait-and-see approach.
"We value Greg as a player both on and off the court," Cho said. "Greg has been injured and has been working hard through the rehab process, but at this time it didn't seem to make a lot of sense for either side to enter negotiations on an in-depth basis."

From Oden's agent, Bill Duffy:

Oden also understands his status, given that he has been injured the past two seasons. He is still not cleared to play, recovering from the serious left knee injury, surgery and ongoing rehab that took him out of last season.

“There’s too much that he needs to do,” Oden’s agent, Bill Duffy told AOL Fanhouse. “It’s really a foregone conclusion. To evaluate what he’s done so far, it’s incomplete.”

Unlike what Mike Conley, Sr. said:

“If [the Trailblazers] want to give him the money we think he’s worth, he’ll sign,” Conley Sr. told the Indianapolis Star on Wednesday.