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By james Greg Oden Share This NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball. Greg Oden Last year the Portland fans went crazy when the team drafted Greg Oden from Ohio State. Greg had led the Ohio State basketball team to the NCAA finals and dominated everyone along the way. He is the b...

Portland rookie center Greg Oden shuffled his feet a few times and was called for traveling. Rookie point guard Jerryd Bayless had several unforced turnovers.

PORTLAND — A night after ringing in the Greg Oden era with an exhilarating rout, the Portland Trail Blazers showed they have much work to do in a loss to Golden State.

 - Greg Oden will be more than capable of that in 2010. Bigger and more athletic than Bosh, Oden will also provide Team USA with more defense, rebounding, ...

By JBudlong Seeing Greg Oden on the basketball court on Tuesday was a good thing. While I am not an Ohio State fan and did not root for Oden during his one year in college, I can only hope he is injury free for the rest of his career. ...

 AZ - The Portland Trail Blazers are also a team to watch, as they get last year’s number one overall pick Greg Oden into the fold. There’s ten or eleven teams ...

 CA - Portland Trail Blazers—What happens when you take a .500 team with studs like Brandon Roy and LaMarcus Aldridge and add a beast like Greg Oden down low? ...

By joelodom@news.oregonian.com Greg Oden and Rudy Fernandez wow the Rose Garden crowd in their debutsBruce Ely/The OregonianIn his first NBA action -- even if it was an exhibition game -- the Blazers' Greg Oden finished with 13 points, five rebounds and two blocks, including this rejection of Spencer Hawes. Portland be...

By joefreeman@news.oregonian.com Click the link for postgame reaction from Greg Oden, Sergio Rodriguez, Brandon Roy, Rudy Fernandez and Sacramento coach Reggie Theus. Greg Oden:

4 - Jerryd Bayless - PG/SG: Bayless, like most rookies, will have his ups and downs this year. But if Bayless can show some defensive prowess, utilize his apparently insane athleticism, maintain his energy level over the season, and show some potential as an honest-to-goodness NBA point...

By Todd Zuniga Still, Live's DNA is an impressive show, since it allows users to update their rosters daily, not only with the latest player abilities but also with the latest in player tendencies -- so if the Dallas Mavericks' Dirk Nowitzki loses his taste for firing 3-balls in real life, expect him to p...

By joelodom@news.oregonian.com Oden will take the most significant steps to date in his knee rehabilitation when he makes his Rose Garden game debut. In Monday's practice, when the Blazers underwent an intense, defense-oriented scrimmage, Oden was as active, poised and in as good shape as he has been at any point of trai...

By michaelrussell@news.oregonian.com A record scrimmage crowd of 11,021 is on hand to greet the Blazers at the Rose Garden They came to see Greg Oden on Friday, the first chance to witness why so much of a fuss has been made over the Trail Blazers' physically imposing center.

By michaelrussell@news.oregonian.com Oden, who endorsed Obama on his yardbarker.com blog earlier this year, spoke briefly to Obama over the phone in February and pledged his support. Oden taped some radio promotions in Indiana, his home state, and on Friday wore a shirt to the Wells Fargo Fan Fest that displayed a cartoon depic...

By Ben. Oden was underwhelming. He finished with 5 points, 2 rebounds and one impressive block: a rejection of an Ike Diogu dunk attempt early in the game. The first offensive series of the game, Oden attempt a lean-in jump hook in the lane. It missed and he wildly went for the rebound, bobbling it out o...

By jasonquick@news.oregonian.com When Barrett got to Oden, there was a huge roar. Barrett played off the intense scrutiny Oden has been under since rolling his ankle the first day of practice. M-V-P! M-V-P!" Anyway, a fun night. Sets a nice stage for Tuesday, when the Blazers open the preseason at home against Sacramento.

By Rick Chandler Thanks to Phil Golding for this picture, who got it from a friend who enjoyed a recent flight with Trail Blazers rookie Greg Oden. I think it's hilarious that the preseason hadn't even started yet, and already Oden is fed up with the fans. His attitude had improved greatly by Tuesday, however...

By joefreeman@news.oregonian.com Trail Blazers rookie center Greg Oden participated in his second consecutive practice Thursday morning, taking another step of progress in his recovery from a minor right ankle sprain. It was a different story for another Blazers starter as point guard Steve Blake missed his second con...

 - Oct 2, 2008 PORTLAND: Is it remotely possible for Greg Oden to be as good as the Blazers need him to be? SACRAMENTO: Without Mike Bibby and Ron-Ron to slow him down, ...

 - The youngest team in the NBA now receives another slice of bliss in the form of Greg Oden. However, every team has flaws, and the Blazers are no different. ...

 CA - Greg Oden, former first overall pick of 2007 NBA Draft joins Lamarcus Aldridge and all star Brandon Roy. These players are called to form one of the best ...

By joefreeman@news.oregonian.com Oden was not the only Blazer stricken with the injury bug on Wednesday. With about 10 minutes left in practice, starting point guard Steve Blake crashed to the floor during a full court scrimmage and stayed down for an extended period.

Brian Hendrickson of The Columbian: "As the media was allowed into the season's first practice, No. 1 draft pick Greg Oden -- preparing for his first season after spending all of last year recovering from microfracture surgery -- was nowhere to be found. He emerged moments later with train...

By jasonquick@news.oregonian.com There was a bit of a scare for Greg Oden and the Trail Blazers on Tuesday when the prized center withdrew from the last 30 minutes of the team's first practice because of an slight injury to his right ankle. Pritchard said he has little to no concerns about the ankle.

By Ben. Jason Quick attempted a Phelpsian freestyle stroke through a wave of hipster journalists as he worked his way closer to Greg Oden, who was surrounded by a 3-deep crowd in every direction.  John Canzano, Olympics veteran, stood nearby, chuckling his support. Joe Freeman on Roy.

By Dave With a new dawn breaking for the Portland Trail Blazers, seeing Greg Oden’s sunny face peeking over the horizon, one of the hot questions of the moment is, “What kind of playoff seed could the Blazers earn this year, providing they even make it?”

By Dave Greg Oden will have the potential to trump any opponent mismatch in the same way Kobe Bryant does…not just an edge, but THE edge that makes the opponent edges not matter anymore.  Whatever happens or doesn’t happen in the regular season, when it’s go-time in April, May, and eventually June...

By jasonquick@news.oregonian.com Like many, I have been one who has touted Greg Oden as an immediate, impact player for the Blazers this season - especially after watching him workout twice this month. Now, keep in mind that Blake is never one to use hyperbole or to blow smoke. Yet, the Blazers point guard is practically drool...

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By sethprince@news.oregonian.com There are a handful of little Brandon Roy's, and a couple of No. 25 jerseys of Travis Outlaw. And of course, there are Greg Oden T-shirts. He won championships in two states in high school. And he won an NCAA Championship at Maryland. All as the starting point guard.

By jasonquick@news.oregonian.com Blazers athletic trainer Jay Jensen is entering his 15th season with the Blazers, and after a year of working closely with Greg Oden during his rehabilitation from microfracture surgery, Jensen says Oden deserves to join lofty company.

By jasonquick@news.oregonian.com All thanks to Greg Oden. The setting for this tale is Hawaii, shortly after the Blazers season ended in April. Much of the Blazers basketball staff and Oden were awarded a retreat of sorts to the island by owner Paul Allen to help break up the monotony of Oden's rehabilitation workouts.

By Dave 1.  How healthy will Greg Oden be and how will that affect his progress? 5.  Will the backcourt defense be good enough to keep Oden out of foul trouble? 6.  How will Travis Outlaw and Martell Webster develop, if at all? 8.  Can the Blazers get some easy buckets and top 100 per game?

By Ben. This evening on 95.5 FM The Game, Greg Oden told Mike Barrett and Mike Rice that he did not watch any of the Blazers' summer league games.  He also admitted that he has not seen any of Jerryd Bayless's MVP play. Most importantly, this was his teammate!

By noreply@blogger.com (David Friedman) For me, the real evaluation process will begin during summer league play when I get to see some of these guys on the court playing under NBA rules against NBA players (or, at least, fringe NBA players); after I watched Kevin Durant struggle during summer league play last year I correctly said that people should stop expecting him to be some kind of instant superstar. Durant performed better toward the end of the regular season but by that point the so-called "experts" had figured out what I had been saying all along, namely that Durant must improve his all around game in order to live up to all of the hype that had been prematurely showered on him.   [read the full post]

By joefreeman@news.oregonian.com He's a guy that has impressed us," Pritchard said. The Portland Trail Blazers are hosting a free draft night event at the Rose Garden this Thursday, June 26, where fans can watch the Trail Blazers roster begin to take shape for the 2008-09 season. Doors open at 3 p.m.

By joefreeman@news.oregonian.com McGee, who is a target for the Blazers at No. 13 according to at least one mock draft, has good basketball genes (see below) and NBA stature that is appealing to most general managers. But he seems like an odd fit for a Blazers team that already features perhaps the best center combination in th...

By joefreeman@news.oregonian.com Although the Trail Blazers resumed predraft workouts on Sunday, things were relatively quiet at the team's practice facility in Tualatin. Four second-round draft hopefuls with vastly different backgrounds were in town, including a former teammate of Greg Oden (Jamar Butler), a prol...

Chicago will almost certainly choose between Beasley, the Kansas State forward who averaged 26.2 points and an NCAA-best 12.4 rebounds, or Rose, the point guard who carried Memphis within minutes of the national title. The NBA draft will be held June 26 in New York.

The second Horford was drafted, he was already behind both Durant and Oden in expectation and popularity. Many people around the NBA had already written in Durant and Oden as the best players in the draft, and no one really gave anyone else a chance.

By Dave Oden will also eventually affect our running game positively.  As we’ve said for the better part of a year now, Lamarcus and Travis are going to be able to fly more when Greg is rebounding.  He’s going to make the opponent take longer shots more often, leading to long rebounds and breaks.  His p...

Mike Conley (Grizzlies) – B; Since returning form injury his playing time and productivity have increased.  If he continues to better his outside shooting percentage, he could be an All-Star point guard in the next several years. Acie Law, IV (Hawks) – C-; No tmuch playing time and an injur...

By Dave My hope is that Oden continues to place real unproduced self made video clips on his Yardbarker site, or even The Blazer site if The Blazers want a piece of the action. I got a sense of the genuine Oden from his self camera held, self spoken videos. It was refreshingly unproduced, unscripted. In...

By Atma Brother ONE Golden State of Mind: After winning the 2007 lottery, the Portland Trailblazers found themselves in the envious position of having to decide between Greg Oden or Kevin Durant. They of course elected for the 7 footer who will sadly miss this upcoming season recovering from microfracture...

By Houston Portland Trail Blazers Offseason Additions: Steve Blake (FA), Rudy Fernandez* (draft), Channing Frye (trade), Taurean Green (draft), James Jones (trade), Petteri Koponen* (draft), Josh McRoberts (draft), Greg Oden (draft)

By Houston I get it. I really do. The Blazers have for a long time been the goat for other teams. The Lakers pierced our hearts in ‘91 and in ‘00 in the Western Conference Finals, the Bulls got us in ‘92 (thanks for the “I’m so glad Portland didn’t pick me” comment Mike - real classy), the Pistons in ‘90, etc. Its...

By Faris Tanyos By the way, I didn’t make a big deal about Oden. The Blazers themselves did; and it blew up in their face. The website comparing Oden to Durant, the big parade in downtown Portland that attracted over 5,000 people. Both those things went overboard. And if you don’t think that’s not a sign that Por...

By Geeves What an interesting night at the NBA Draft in New York City. Nobody was surprised that the Portland Trailblazerz took Greg Oden with the #1 pick, no matter how much GM Keith Pritchard gave vague answers that were sort-of contrary. Nor was anyone surprised that the Seattle Sonics made the no-...

Team Player School/Country Comment 1. Portland C Greg Oden Ohio St. GM Kevin Pritchard likes Durant more but can't pass on this once-in-a-generation guy. 2. Seattle F Kevin Durant Texas If Oden's gone, Durant is easy pick at No. 2. 3. Atlanta F Al Horford Florida Atlanta wants to trade pick but if i...