Why isn't Oden playing?

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What surgery is recovering from? What rehab is he going through? Exactly why isn't he playing? He should be in summer league if he's serious. Has he just given up? What exactly is he doing right now? If he was serious, I'd be for signing him this summer but I'm not sure he cares.
 
He is seriously trying to negotiate one last big contract like Roy did.

Remember when Roy was headlined in Seattle last summer, so a big crowd showed up to see his last game, and he just sat on the bench?

Oden isn't any dumber.
 
I heard he is playing Dance Dance Revolution.

Go Blazers
 
Maybe Oden should resurrect his career and do a youtube clip of him doing the "Harlem Shake" with a whole bunch of college females.
 
Last news was March 9, 2013 at a Cavs game. It sounds like he likes being in Ohio still and likes the Cavs organization.
It looks like Oden won't sign with a team until the summer, but I have to think that the Cavaliers' willingness to spend and proximity to his home give Cleveland an edge. If Oden is healthy and mentally ready to contribute, I think it's a very low risk-high reward move. Might as well take a chance on an enormous big man with basketball skills. Even if he's just a 15-20 minute defensive backup next season, that's probably would a couple million bucks.

Obviously nothing is set in stone, but Friday night just added some fuel to the fire. And judging by the crowd's reaction when Oden was shown on the jumbotron, I think most basketball fans in Northeast Ohio would be happy to welcome him back.
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Source: http://www.fearthesword.com/2013/3/...ttends-cavaliers-game-and-sits-near-cleveland
 
Should be interesting to see if he gets the kind of money Roy did.

You'd have to assume that most teams would love to have him on at the minimum salary as a low-risk, high-reward prospect.

Right now, Dexter Pittman is in the NBA, so that's my basis for all minimum salary transactions, and there's no way Oden can be worse than Dexter Pittman.

Hell, there are one or two players on every bench in the NBA that are glorified season ticket holders. Why wouldn't a team take a chance on Oden as a "worst case scenario" seat warmer and 7'0" practice dummy? Apparently there's a market for that.

Although, it'd be pretty ballsy of his agent to ask for more than the veteran's minimum at this point.
 
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My question is, how does the NBA figure out how many years does he get credit as a veteran minimum salary? He barely got 82 games in a 3 year span. LOL
Does he get credit for 1, 2 or 3 years played?
 
The Dude said:
Oden will be the best FA signing this July for some team.
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if that team has no shot at signing a player worth a damn, then yeah, he would be.
 
The Dude said:
Oden will be the best FA signing this July for some team.
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Oden could be the ultimate high reward player. Hell even if he only gives a team one season of healthy he could be an absolute steal of an FA pick up. Even the most injury prone guys seem to have at least one healthy season. It all boils down to the contract and the situation/expectations place on him.

If you could be all but guaranteed that he would give you one healthy productive year and nothing after that how many teams would even overpay for that one year for a chance at a championship run? But of course no one at this point can know if he will be healthy. So who will be that one team that gets that healthy year out of him? Can you imagine if it was Miami next year? FML!
 
If his body was breaking down on him at age 21, how much NBA action can his 25 year old body take?
 
We should have never waived him. It will come back to haunt us.
 
I think some promoter should sponsor a big Dance Dance Revolution competition between Oden and Bynum. The first one to blow out a knee loses. It could be pay per view.
 
tlongII said:
We should have never waived him. It will come back to haunt us.
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Is him making a comeback, after missing basically the last 4 years, really a concern of yours?
 
julius said:
The 4 surgeries on his knees don't just happen to perfectly healthy bodies
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One was voluntary, one was because his kneecap exploded, and both the others resulted from a combination of his drinking and his failure to rehab properly. It's possible that he's matured enough to get his head on straight, and that he's doing whatever it takes to get his body right.
 
julius said:
Is him making a comeback, after missing basically the last 4 years, really a concern of yours?
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I believe he can still come back. I don't see us winning the title anytime soon so why not take a chance? He is a once in a generation talent. That is obvious.
 
BlazerWookee said:
One was voluntary, one was because his kneecap exploded, and both the others resulted from a combination of his drinking and his failure to rehab properly. It's possible that he's matured enough to get his head on straight, and that he's doing whatever it takes to get his body right.
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Still, a healthy body wouldn't have had 4 (FOUR!!!) surgeries before he was 25
 
Denial is a helluva drug
 
BlazerWookee said:
One was voluntary, one was because his kneecap exploded, and both the others resulted from a combination of his drinking and his failure to rehab properly. It's possible that he's matured enough to get his head on straight, and that he's doing whatever it takes to get his body right.
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I get the idea that maybe he didn't take his health seriously and now he is more of the mindset "his body is his temple" and does everything right to be s healthy as possible. And that would suck if that was the situation and he pissed his health away while a Blazer.

But just the fact he blew out his kneecap by jumping, I wonder how much of that can be attributed to freak accident or bad condition vs his body is breaking on him when competing at that high level.

Also, I have been following Oden pretty closely since he was drafted and there are few times he was 100%. It was always something with Oden. Every time he goes in for a surgery, they end up doing a lot of repair work. A 25 year old with two microfracture surgeries (or is 3) with limited college and NBA playing time?

My best guess: his body has been breaking down on him since 21
 
Charcoal Filtered said:
He has said he is rehabbing. No word if he had been cleared to play. My guess is someone would have given him a chance to play if he was.
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He's been cleared to play for months now, he made a conscious decision back in November, IIRC, to take the rest of the year off and make sure he's fully healed and ready to go for next season.

Or so I've heard.
 
Odens in an intresting situation. If he thinks he can stay healthy for an entire year then he should go to a team he feels comfortable with and will get a lot of minutes and sign a small 3-4m for two years with a player option for the second year. If he stays healthy for the majority of games and puts up decent stats he is in for a massive massive payday.

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