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WOW!! Number 1 draft pick of the Portland Trailblazers will miss his whole rookie season.
[Edited 9/13/07 11:50am]

Shades of Sam Bowie! That is a bummer, especially considering Oden is really 31.

Or looks to be!

Damn.....

Well, he's only 19, so his body should be able to fully recover, plus it was a small area affected, so he should be cool.

MuthaFunka said:

Only 2 players have come back from micro fracture surgery.

Graycap23 said:

Yeah, but I think those players had a larger area of the knee to repair and they weren't as young as O-Dawg.

MuthaFunka said:

But it's microfracture surgery, the most serious kknee surgery for a ball player. It ended the careers of Penny Hardaway, Jamal Mashburn and Allan Houston.


Chris Webber hasn't been the same since he had the surgery. Amare has said he lost 3-4 inches of his verticle and J-Kidd while still great is not the J-Kidd of 2001 and 2002.

LittleBLUECorvette said:

Yeah, it's gonna be tough to come back, no doubt about that, BUT if anybody can come back from it, it's a 19-year-old with a small area of micro fracture surgery done on him.

I hate to see this happen to any athelete, but especially with such a young talent with so much potential.

I really hopes he beats the odds and makes a full recovery to have a great NBA career.

Why do y'all keep saying he's 19? He's 31. Just look at him!














J/K. Dude looks older than 19, though.

It's true microfracture surgery is the worst of all. But since he's a low-post player who doesn't need a 36-inch vertical, hopefully the loss of leaping ability won't affect him too much.

MuthaFunka said:

I hope that u are correct.

RodeoSchro said:

Yep - Bill Walton too. Remember all the injury problems he had?

RodeoSchro said:

Some say he looks 40.