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doesnt everyone and their mom report that the spurs have interest in their player? it like makes other front offices the player has potential lol
Fox Sport’s Sam Amico, AKA Greg Oden’s personal publicist, reports that the Spurs are among a handful of teams interested in the No. 1 pick in the 2007 draft, whose agent is “100 percent sure” he’ll be back in the NBA by next season.
“”He’s rehabbing and doing very well,” Oden’s agent, Michael Conley Sr., told Amico.
Amrico reports that Cleveland, Atlanta and Memphis are rumored to have already worked the 7-foot center out. Milwaukee, Chicago, Golden State and the Spurs were also mentioned as having interest. An additional report by ESPN.com listed Dallas among the potential candidates.
Dan McCarney/San Antonio Express-News
doesnt everyone and their mom report that the spurs have interest in their player? it like makes other front offices the player has potential lol
The Spurs are always mentioned as having interest. Might be totally legit, or it might just be an effort by his agent to try and make him seem more desirable.
Won't help anybody this season though, and the Spurs would have to cut someone to make room (probably Blair) or just delay actually signing their new Aussie Center.
As a fifteenth man, I'd take him as long as he inks a three-year deal with the last two years unguaranteed. If not, Oden's not really worth putting time into.
Dallas is always interested or near the top of the list when a guy is noted to be luring interest lol.
SC, I can't ever read your posts. My eyes keep veering to the left.
It's like watching something with Jennifer Love Hewitt in it lol
bust when healthy, joke when injured. wouldn't guarantee him a pack of candies tbh.
He was hardly a bust when healthy.
15/12 per 36 minutes (PER 19.5)... I would take that from any rookie/sop re. Considering he had missed a full season, these numbers are actually rather impressive.
he basically couldn't stay on the court or make a ft.. may as well play Hassan Whiteside, basically the same thing..
Hassan Whiteside couldn't hold his jock. He's a 100% healthy full-on scrub.
Let's be clear: Oden would be a VERY effective center and likely an All Defensive team selection if he had been healthy. He's a beast on the boards and a quality rim protector.
It is true he had a problem to stay on the court. I don't know if he could have solved that.
But 67 FT% in 82 games is not that bad... similar to what a certain 36 yo PF did when he was ROY.
Probably nothing. I mean if Oden is healthy everyone should have interest. Also the word "interest" says so little.
When he was healthy he was very valuable defensively. At his best even flirting with being dominant. Had that continued, calling him a bust would be nonsense.
It's also not like we have the best shooting coach in the known universe, either. If they sign him, they can work on that immediately, and by the time he's ready to take the court, he may be an 80% FT shooter. Just look at Splitter, for 's sake.
If he's any good, he won't sign with the Spurs.
If he's not any good, the Spurs won't want him.
Normally the case, but with his health, or lack thereof, SA might slip in under the radar if they're willing to sign him this year and rehab him. A long shot, for sure.
Reportedly won't play until next season even if he signs...will re-visit this thought in the summer.
He who signs him now jumps the line. It'll cost you one season at minimum, plus two unguaranteed years, or he's too expensive and you pass. If his knees aren't improving significantly after one year, you also pass.
Yep. I am not interested in Oden's offensive potential, I want his defensive potential on the team. He has the potential to be an absolute monster defensively. I want the Spurs to sign him.
I'm still conflicted about this. Hey, getting Oden on the cheap sounds good, but you can't look past how this guy is made of glass. Even if he does come back and ready to play at the start of the season, odds are nearly 100% that he will miss significant time with injury or end up being "out for the season".
Anything more than league minimum is a waste on this guy, because you know full well he's going to miss at LEAST half the games he's signed for. Which means his salary is actually double the league minimum per game played. And that's in the best case scenerio where he actually plays 41 games a season. Which is more than double the amount of games he's averages the last 5 seasons.
Seriously, he's only played 20% of the games that have been played since he's been drafted (including all of this season). That means the Spurs will on average not even get 20 games a season out of him. Think Ginobili, only 4x more injury prone than he's been the last handful of seasons.
he only needs to run only, if he cant do that then he has no use on the spurs
a 7ft with no vertical can still be effective playing defense
there are guys in the league dont even jump that can play defense and offense avg, but still better then nothing...cause 2pts is 2pts clowns
While there is no guarantee he would even play as many as half the games, I'm sure most said the same thing about Grant Hill
He missed 275 games in 5 years between 2000-01 and 2005-06. In the following 5 seasons, he missed 32.
I hope Oden follows the same progression and hope he recovers. Nobody will know until he tries, and I'm sure if he fails most will be there to say I told you so. I'd take him as long as he is cheap, with the knowledge that he is most likely going to fail, but with the hope he will succeed in staying healthy.
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