Oct 29th 2008 9:00PM by Nate Jones (author feed)
Filed under: Trail Blazers, NBA InjuriesThe press release just dropped from the
Portland Trail Blazers detailing the severity of Greg Oden’s injury. The
Blazers say that the injury is a mid-foot avulsion fracture that will hold him
out of the line up for the next 2-4 weeks.

This is good news for the
Blazers, as the injury could have been much worse. However, the NBA might not be
feeling the injury so much, as they had plans to highlight Oden in match ups
against Shaquille O’neal, Dwight Howard, Yao Ming, and Tim Duncan over the
next two weeks. Of course all of those games are nationally televised games, so
it is a real blow to the league’s promotional efforts to have Oden out
right now.

Despite the promotional harm to the league, this is pretty
much good news for the Blazers and their fans. I guess all you Blazer fans
thinking about jumping off the ledge of your balcony can now step back in the
building.