Blazers C Greg Oden: I am able to run again

Posted on | Thursday, October 27, 2011 | No Comments

Posted by Ben Golliver.

December 5, 2009. That's the last time Portland Trail Blazers center Greg Oden played in an NBA game.

Needless to say the last two years have been a long journey. Oden has endured multiple knee surgeries and sweated through endless rehabilitation since that last game, against the Houston Rockets. His agent said that he underwent interventions, he visited a sports psychologist and he told a newspaper that he had "definitely cut back" on drinking and partying.

Back in June, the Blazers extended Oden an $8.8 million qualifying offer on the hope that he might make good on the potential they saw when they made the 7-footer the No. 1 pick in the 2007 NBA Draft.

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