Will Greg Oden ever step on the court and play for The Miami Heat?

http://www.oregonlive.com/nba/index.ssf/2016/02/greg_oden_cut_by_chinese_baske.html

the saddest detail:

Blazers Edge first reported the news, based on a Reddit post that cited a Chinese-language NBA message board.

he had like one good quarter when he signed with the heat for a minute

http://www.indystar.com/story/sports/college/2016/10/27/greg-oden-m-still-trying-figure-out-my-life/92845362/

'Oden is enrolled this semester at Ohio State, a 28-year-old sophomore majoring in sports industry. When asked if he'd play basketball again, he said, "I wish. It's over."'

kubler-ross does it again

wow can he not get a good gig overseas?

http://www.espn.com/espn/otl/story/_/id/18022504/greg-oden-says-remembered-biggest-bust-nba-history

"I'll be remembered as the biggest bust in NBA history," Oden told Outside the Lines. "But I can't do nothing about that."

god I just want to hug this guy sometimes

such a mope

i wish him well on his journey of discovering what to do with the $30m he got for playing 100 basketball games, it cant be easy

i wish him well as long as he figured out his anger issues and never hurts another woman again.

fair

being roughly 7 feet tall and instantly recognizable to millions of people, and having a reputation as the sport's biggest washout, is not going to be emotionally simple to deal with, even with 30M dollars to ease the pain. as for physically assaulting a woman, that is obviously a much different issue and much less forgivable.

kinda unfair to call guys who washed out cause of injuries busts imo

true. as I said far upthread, he was willing to do massive amounts of surgery and rehab to be able to play. his body just broke down way too soon. but even being the object of pity is definitely poisonous to one's mental health.

yeah i mean ppl can be all fd up in the most privileged of situations, his while not perfect isnt so bad all things considered imho, which isnt to say hes undeserving of sympathy just that his outward circumstance doesnt look too shabby to me

it prob wld be uncomfortable to be that huge and recognizable tho

also he is lebrons dad

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=18653591

"Basketball-wise... I would love to keep on playing but I think you need to be able to run up and down the floor?"

praying that Jabari Parker doesn't wind up the next Oden

ACL tears are a different beast.

Damn! I saw this revive and wondered morbidly if it was an RIP revive.

Still think he had gigantism and they covered it up

wld be p incredible if portland drafted a known giant with uneven legs

By "they" I mean oden's agents/family

Boban has to have acromegaly right

but the blazers cldve tested for it

due diligence for a guy who at 18 looked like lebrons dad and all

in the northwest we grow up with the stories of paul bunyan and do not fear gigantic men