So the Blazers are gonna resign greg oden???

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Mdizzle9000
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edited June 2011 in From the Cheap Seats
for why?

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=6717753



Blazers give Greg Oden qualifying offer

PORTLAND, Ore. -- The Trail Blazers have offered former No. 1 draft pick Greg Oden an $8.8 million qualifying offer to stay in Portland.

The offer means the often-injured 7-foot center becomes a restricted free agent. The Blazers can match any other offer made for him.

Oden, 23, didn't play this past season after microfracture surgery on his left knee. He missed his rookie season in 2007-08 after microfracture surgery on his right knee. Two seasons ago he broke his left kneecap.

Because of his injuries, the former Ohio State star has played in only 82 games over parts of two seasons, averaging 9.4 points and 7.3 rebounds.

"We've stood behind Greg Oden every day since he became a Trail Blazer and that continues with today's announcement," Trail Blazers president Larry Miller said in a statement. "Despite the setbacks he's experienced, he continues to be resilient in working tirelessly on his rehabilitation. We're all very encouraged with not only his progress but with his commitment and determination to return to the basketball court."

The Blazers had until Thursday night to make the qualifying offer. Before he was dismissed by the team last month, former Blazers general manager Rich Cho had long hinted that the Blazers would move to keep Oden. Cho was replaced in the interim by Chad Buchanan, the Blazers' director of college scouting.

If no other teams make offers for Oden and he stays with the Blazers, he will become an unrestricted free agent for the 2012-13 season.

In the 2009-10 season, Oden was averaging 11.7 points, 8.8 rebounds and 2.4 blocks as a starter and he was playing with an authority that had previously eluded him. But he broke his right kneecap in December of that season.

It appeared he would return last season, but in November it was announced that he would require microfracture surgery on the right knee.

After the Blazers selected Oden with the top pick in the 2007 draft, choosing him over Kevin Durant, he was hailed as the future of the franchise as it emerged from the so-called Jail Blazers era.

But Oden's rookie season was postponed before it started when he had microfracture surgery on his left knee.

His numerous injuries have subjected him to endless comparisons to Sam Bowie, the frequently injured big man whom the Blazers infamously selected ahead of Michael Jordan in the 1984 draft.

Portland also extended a qualifying offer to Australian guard Patrick Mills and exercised options on forward Luke Babbitt and guard Elliot Williams.

Mills, 22, has appeared in 74 games over two seasons in Portland, averaging 5.1 points, 0.7 rebounds and 1.5 assists. But he has also been a fan favorite, often flashing the team's trademark "3-goggles" with his hands after Portland scores a 3-pointer.
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  • lamontbdc
    lamontbdc Members Posts: 18,824 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    don't go the yao ming route with this dude. rockets kept praying dude could play again but he just couldn't. Let Greg walk now. if he works out elsewhere then so be it.
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  • 5th Letter
    5th Letter Members, Moderators, Writer Posts: 37,068 Regulator
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    good move low risk high reward signing.
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  • R.D.
    R.D. Members Posts: 20,156 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    He 23 and has yet to give them a whole season....makes no sense not to give him one more year rather than let him walk 4 nothing
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  • KeepOnPushing
    KeepOnPushing Members Posts: 17,569 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    More like keeping him away from other teams more than anything , because they announced during the season that they wouldnt resign him , but as things played out i think they see teams are a Big man away or even a Backup big man away from being championship built

    so what they're doing is 1.Keeping him away from other teams because when healthy he can rebound and block shots , 2.If you want him then you're gonna have to also hurt your cap room on someone thats a high risk..

    a team like the Heat probably thought they could have got this guy for cookies and crubs for a great upside risk , but now teams like that are sitting back going "Damn $8.8 Mil for that???...." ......
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  • goat334
    goat334 Members Posts: 3,604 ✭✭
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    Has he accepted the qualifying offer??
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  • Mdizzle9000
    Mdizzle9000 Members, Writer Posts: 8,319 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    goat334 wrote: »
    Has he accepted the qualifying offer??

    lol as if he could get better elsewhere
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  • Co_Town_Michael
    Co_Town_Michael Members Posts: 5,551 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Greg Oden deserves LESS than the league minimum.
    Young ? ass ? .
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  • D.D.S.
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    smh @ me thinkin he was gonna be better than durant bak in '07
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  • sobek
    sobek Members Posts: 5,611 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    D.D.S. wrote: »
    smh @ me thinkin he was gonna be better than durant bak in '07

    I thought the same ? too, smh
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  • goat334
    goat334 Members Posts: 3,604 ✭✭
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    Planking is fairly new to us, but it's been around for a minute.
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  • Vader_F_Kennedy
    Vader_F_Kennedy Members Posts: 17,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Co-Town Michael wrote: »
    Greg Oden deserves LESS than the league minimum.
    Young ? ass ? .


    ? gon bread another knee cap
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  • Vader_F_Kennedy
    Vader_F_Kennedy Members Posts: 17,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    damn over durant tho lol that would be ? up if first game back he got hurt again

    was this ? injury prone at o state?
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  • KeepOnPushing
    KeepOnPushing Members Posts: 17,569 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Vader wrote: »
    damn over durant tho lol that would be ? up if first game back he got hurt again

    was this ? injury prone at o state?

    Yup.........
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  • MillzOG
    MillzOG Members, Moderators Posts: 14,508 Regulator
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    He didnt hurt his knees and ? at ohio state though, it was his hand and it actually made him a better offensive player ? he had to start using his left only. Soon as he got to the league his knees just gave up on him.


    He needs to go to the Knicks or the Suns (no bias) those teams obviously have the best training staff in the nba....shoutout to Shaq, Amare, Nash, Grant Hill, and Vince Carter who all have nagging injuries that have been kept under control by those respective training staffs.

    But the Blazers are smart to send him this option, he might accept since noone is gonna offer him higher than that, but he could get a 2 or 3 year deal at a lower rate from somebody im sure..(maybe the mid level exception)
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  • KeepOnPushing
    KeepOnPushing Members Posts: 17,569 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    millz_flybridge wrote: »
    He didnt hurt his knees and ? at ohio state though, it was his hand and it actually made him a better offensive player ? he had to start using his left only. Soon as he got to the league his knees just gave up on him.


    He needs to go to the Knicks or the Suns (no bias) those teams obviously have the best training staff in the nba....shoutout to Shaq, Amare, Nash, Grant Hill, and Vince Carter who all have nagging injuries that have been kept under control by those respective training staffs.



    No he needs to take the $8.8 Mil and have a seat Lol..
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  • sdotcarter111
    sdotcarter111 Members Posts: 1,457 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    8.8 millie? For this ? ?

    No wonder the Blazers stay losing, decade after decade. They're like the crackhead cousin you keep giving a chance and every time you end up with a watch missing.
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  • KeepOnPushing
    KeepOnPushing Members Posts: 17,569 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    sdotcarter111 wrote: »
    8.8 millie? For this ? ?

    No wonder the Blazers stay losing, decade after decade. They're like the crackhead cousin you keep giving a chance and every time you end up with a watch missing.

    th_laughing.gif ......... ..........
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  • KNiGHTS
    KNiGHTS Members Posts: 4,435 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Is Greg Oden the type that has never heard of ? calcium? Vitamins? It's like dude's whole diet consists of pizza, cookies, and ice cream. Everybody I have ever heard of that's frail has the worst diet imaginable. Eat a ? vegetable, ol' Old Man of the River looking ass...
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  • Vader_F_Kennedy
    Vader_F_Kennedy Members Posts: 17,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Tommy bilfiger wrote: »
    8.8 is the qualifying offer the #1 draft pick is gonna get regardless

    If Derrick rose was to get to this same point he would get a 9.0 qualifying offer next summer

    If oden wasnt so injury prone he would of got an extension

    This means any team that signs him this offseason will have to give him more years with the 8.8 base salary

    Which nobody will do

    what d rose salary look like
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  • king hassan
    king hassan Members Posts: 22,739 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    D.D.S. wrote: »
    smh @ me thinkin he was gonna be better than durant bak in '07
    sobek wrote: »
    I thought the same ? too, smh
    As did I smh @ me
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  • Vader_F_Kennedy
    Vader_F_Kennedy Members Posts: 17,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Tommy bilfiger wrote: »
    This past season he made 5.5,next year it will be 6.9

    Then he will be eligible for an extension like oden is now cuz oden was the # 1 pick 1 year before rose

    IF rose was ever to be a restricted FA like oden is now(which will never happen) he would get 9.0 which is 200k more

    Difference is bulls will give rose an extension 10 seconds after he eligible for one

    All the 1st round picks salaries are pre determined,depending where u were drafted

    damn thats it! i thought it was way more i was thinkin more like 10 mil! but im pretty sure he got some good money form addidas and other endorsments
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  • Chi-Town Bully
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    Vader wrote: »
    damn thats it! i thought it was way more i was thinkin more like 10 mil! but im pretty sure he got some good money form addidas and other endorsments

    Those rookie contracts dont pay a lot
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  • Vader_F_Kennedy
    Vader_F_Kennedy Members Posts: 17,715 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    Tommy bilfiger wrote: »
    He still on his rookie contract he'll get that dough after next season
    o ok.............
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  • G Mack
    G Mack Members Posts: 6,255 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    he's a high reward low risk guy

    the blazers are just trying to make sure some team gets him for nothing
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