Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
The part you quoted stuck out to me, too, but in a slightly different way. If Oden's agent is most concerned about the quality the medical staff, then I have to wonder just how good those knees truly are. I've had my heart broken because of one knee before and now we'd be banking on two?
Not banking. Just gambling, and with small change at that. Be great to have it work out. SPECTACULAR even. If there was a 1% chance Oden could be full strength Oden and it paid off you have made one of the best moves of all time given cost. At the 24% chance he can still be big defensive roleplayer thug for 2/3 of your games you've still come off as a real winner, although at that point its not wildly out of line of what you may have been able to do at lower risk. The 75% chance that he's done and will only last a month or two before joining the other half of Portland's dreamt of future (Brandon Roy) as finally giving into inevitability? Well, kind of a shrug. A problem if we have intentionally bypassed other alternatives to take a longshot gamble. But there should not be a single Kings fans actually counting on Greg Oden. He's purely frosting. Of course it would help if the cooks had remembered to add flour to the underlying cake.