Oden Injured by Standing Up, Fan Suggests Reiki

Greg Oden has a blog over at YardBarker. In his latest post, written prior to today's surgery, he revealed that he first noticed a problem with his knee a month ago while getting up from a couch. The most entertaining part of the post can be found in the comments section, where user "iDog1976" suggests that Oden try Reiki rather than go under the knife:

Hey Greg,
Not sure if you are familiar with Reiki but it is a Japanese relaxation technique the promotes healing. Sometimes it has dramatic results. I have been attuned to perform Reiki but there are also master Reiki practicioners in portland like my Teacher. I plan on working with my teacher to send you Reiki and would be more then willing to give you a treatment if you wanted one. I urge you to do visualizations of your knee being healed and whole on a daily basis. This will help your body to promote it's healing process.

Fantastic, sound advice. I can't see why the ownership wants that team out of Portland.

Oden Out

The Portland TrailBlazers have announced that prized rookie Greg Oden will likely miss the entire 2007-08 season. The 2007 top overall draft pick had micro-fracture surgery today which revealed cartilage damage in his right knee.

Oden led the Ohio State Buckeyes to the NCAA championship game as a freshman in March. He averaged 15.7 PPG and pulled down 9.6 rebounds for the Bucks in his lone college season.

It's Official: Oden #1

Greg Oden is now a Portland TrailBlazer. Also, Boston has sent their #5 pick, Wally Szczerbiak and Delonte West to Seattle in exchange for Ray Allen. The C's have finally addressed that glaring weakness at the 2-guard, too bad that Pierce kid never panned out. The Sonics then took Kevin Durant with the second pick. To recap: Delonte West, Wally Szczerbiak, Kevin Durant and Dave Siock are now Seattle SuperSonics, assuming that Siock goes 5th. Atlanta proved to be as dumb as we all expected and took Al Horford 3rd. Mike Conley, Jr. went 4th to Memphis.