By Adam Kiefaber
Sorry, I know this a basketball blog right before the Buckeyes’ biggest football game of the early season, but it is a big one.
It has been reported that former 68 year old freshman Greg Oden, who was drafted No. 1 overall in the 2007 NBA Draft, will miss the entire 2007-2008 season after knee surgery.
Oden underwent exploratory surgery on his right knee On Thursday in Vancouver.
Quote from Blazers.com
“Greg had an arthroscopy and a micro fracture surgery today,” said team physician Dr. Don Roberts, who performed the surgery. “He was found to have articular cartilage damage in his right knee. The area of injury was not large and we were able to treat it with micro fracture, which stimulates the growth of cartilage. There are things about this that are positive for Greg. First of all he is young. The area where the damage was is small and the rest of his knee looked normal. All those are good signs for a complete recovery from micro fracture surgery.”
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2 comments ↓
Thanks for the welcome. I saw Oden play as a freshman in high school and he is certainly a talent. I then saw one of his senior year games at Lawrence North and that was the best high school team I have ever seen in 25 years of watching Indiana High School basketball (Keep in mind, I’ll be 28 next month) It sucks this happened to him.
Looks like Todd Jones @ the Dispatch stole your headline:
http://blog.dispatch.com/blog-16/2007/09/greg_oh-no-den.shtml
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