my solution to the Blazers future

[handiman]

Complete disaster from what?

Marketing and lost potential in the form of Durant. Oden has to be turned into something for it to not be one of the all time disastrous picks.

As compared to him being a total bust that he currently is?

He's hardly a total bust. He's been a top quality NBA center during the brief time he's been healthy, and I'm sure most of the GM's are aware of that. Oden is marketable even when sidelined, and true centers are such a commodity, someone will offer him bucks if we don't. Better to let someone else gamble on his health and flip his star potential for a player that fits better and plays more.