C Greg Oden (Portland Trailblazers)

[Wells4Heisman]

I just saw this commercial of Greg.... Pretty funny stuff...

YouTube - Greg Oden for Chrysler Jeep Dodge of...

[SEREbuckeye]

Originally Posted by Wells4Heisman

I just saw this commercial of Greg.... Pretty funny stuff...

YouTube - Greg Oden for Chrysler Jeep Dodge of Wilsonville

Wow, I cant stop laughing. This certainly is more entertaining than Troy Smith's car commercial.

[BuckWrestler141]

I keep hearing talk of Rookie of the Year, is Oden eligible for this award next year since he didn't play last?

[OHSportsFan9]

Originally Posted by BuckWrestler141

I keep hearing talk of Rookie of the Year, is Oden eligible for this award next year since he didn't play last?

Yes.

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

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So far summer has been good to me. I've been in school and working out in Columbus. It feels good to be back here. Im taking biology 101. It has a 2 hour lecture and a 3 hour lab 3 days a week! Im also still working out 4 days a week. Last weekend I went to Chicago for the taste of Chicago and I had a really good time. For those of you who dont know what that is its basically a huge festival in Chicago that has music and food from like 60 different restaurants that you can try. I only gained like 3 pounds even though I couldnt get a lot of food from the taste cause there was too many people. But my weekend was good and now I'm back in Columbus. Gonna get ready to go to class.

[billmac91]

Concert: Rihanna and Kanye

He's funny. Check out his blog about meeting Rihanna....

also had the chance to meet Rihanna and Kanye. I have been a fan of theirs since they both came out, but I have had a crush on Rihanna since I first saw her on TV. When I met her i froze up. I had all this great stuff in my head about what i was gonna say to her, but none of it came out. I ended up saying the cheeziest thing ever: "umm, who are you," I could of punched myself.

HAHA....asked Rihanna who she was after watching her live....

[IronBuckI]

also had the chance to meet Rihanna and Kanye. I have been a fan of theirs since they both came out, but I have had a crush on Rihanna since I first saw her on TV. When I met her i froze up. I had all this great stuff in my head about what i was gonna say to her, but none of it came out. I ended up saying the cheeziest thing ever: "umm, who are you," I could of punched myself.

It's HAVE Greg. I could HAVE punched myself.

[OregonBuckeye]

Originally Posted by IronBuckI

It's HAVE Greg. I could HAVE punched myself.

Good thing he's going back to school.

[IronBuckI]

Originally Posted by OregonBuckeye

Good thing he's going back to school.

Yes it is.

[Buckskin86]

Rob Oller commentary: Oden still possesses unspoiled personality
Sunday, July 13, 2008 3:44 AM
By Rob Oller


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"I've got a little kid heart sometimes," Greg Oden said last week after working out in the Schottenstein Center.

Basketball is full of big players. It needs more big kids like Greg Oden -- athletes who are childlike, not childish. Big difference.

A child marvels at the wonders of the world. Shows off one minute and turns painfully shy the next. Doesn't consider himself so big, status-wise, that a small and simple life is something to be shunned.

That is Oden, a little boy inside a 7-foot body. He holds an endearing 11-year-old's outlook expressed through the face of a 35-year-old who actually is 20. Greg Olden the Young'en.

The Portland Trailblazers center currently is back on Ohio State's campus, living with Mike Conley Jr., attending summer classes and looking forward to working with actual kids as part of the Old Spice Buckeye Stars basketball camp for ages 7-18 at Worthington Kilbourne on July 29-31. Two other former Buckeyes teammates, Conley Jr. and Daequan Cook, will join Oden at the camp.

"I've got a little kid heart sometimes," Oden said last week after working out in the Schottenstein Center, where he trains four days a week with a Blazers trainer flown in weekly from Portland. "I still have a good connection with kids. Sometimes I really know what they're thinking."

BuckeyeXtra - The Columbus Dispatch : Rob Oller commentary: Oden still possesses unspoiled personality

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

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Meanwhile ...
The Portland Trail Blazers play their first summer-league game Monday night against Washington, but Blazers front-office chief Kevin Pritchard has squelched any notion that Greg Oden might make a cameo in one or two of the Blazers' five games.
When we checked on Saturday night just to make sure, Pritchard said that Oden is far enough along in his recovery from September microfracture surgery on his right knee to return to the Cox Pavilion. That's the same building where we last saw Oden in uniform for two games last summer before he underwent a tonsillectomy, but the Blazers see no need or upside to hurry him back onto the floor.
And who can argue?
As much as we'd all enjoy a big-name cameo -- with this July's rookie contingent in Vegas lacking the buzz factor Oden and Kevin Durant generated in 2007 and now without Gordon it's not as if Oden needs a big summer to secure a spot in the Blazers' rotation. You can safely assume Oden is up there with Mayo on the list of favorites to win the 2008-09 NBA Rookie of the Year award, which Oden is eligible to win after sitting out his entire first season with the injury.
"We like him, Pritchard said with a smile.

[Buckskin86]

Oden eager to get his delayed NBA going this fall
By Beth Harris, AP Sports Writer

LOS ANGELES ? Greg Oden is itching to get his delayed NBA career going, but he's still forbidden from any 5-on-5 action until September.
Oden's rookie season was over before it even started when he had right knee surgery last September. Recovery can take six months or more, and the Portland Trail Blazers decided their No. 1 pick would sit out the season.

"I'm still rehabbing, but I'm ready to play," Oden told The Associated Press on Wednesday while in Los Angeles to attend the ESPY Awards. "I can work out, I can lift, no 5-on-5, no 3-on-3. That's where everything is going, towards me being able to play when the season starts, but I'm ready."

He said he expects to be cleared to play again in September.

Until then, Oden is taking a summer school biology class at Ohio State, where he left after leading the Buckeyes to the 2007 national title game - a loss to Florida.

"I'm still classified as a freshman," the 7-footer said, grinning.

Being back on campus, though, is a constant reminder that he can't play basketball just yet.

"Those guys are playing pickup games and the freshmen are coming in going, 'Oh Greg, I'll beat you,"' he said. "I'm like, 'Just let me go one day."'

Oden plans to pursue a degree during his offseasons. He's undecided on a major, but he wants to do something with food.

"They don't have a culinary degree at Ohio State, so I figure nutrition and then try to do something with that," he said. "I like to cook, I like food."

Asked his specialty in the kitchen, Oden paused and said, "Hamburger Helper and tuna fish."

Told that he should cook from scratch, he replied, "I like the recipes, I can follow a recipe. From what I hear, a lot of people can't, so that's a step up."

Oden eager to get his delayed NBA going this fall - USATODAY.com

[OSUBasketballJunkie]

Dispatch

Overheard: Greg Oden

Thursday, July 17, 2008 3:18 AM

"Those guys are playing pickup games and the freshmen are coming in going, 'Oh Greg, I'll beat you.' I'm like, 'Just let me go one day.' " -- Greg Oden, who is taking a biology course at Ohio State this summer, but can't play yet while rehabbing from knee surgery

[Dryden]

Even though OSU doesn't have a culinary degree, Oden's comments make me wonder whether that statement sent the Trail Blazers brass pouring over his contract to see if they included provisions about Oden wielding sharp knives and operating commercial kitchen machinery.

I'm sure they're positively thrilled at the prospects of him slicing open his palm with a chefs knife or mangling his arm below the elbow in a dough mixer.

[Steve19]

Can you imagine what that summer camp for kids will be like and what those kids will take away for life?

I still remember Fred Taylor camps with Lucas, Havlichek, and Bradds. Wow! They'll be right here on BP in 20 years.