From Greg Oden's blog on YardBarker.com:

On my vacation earlier this summer i got up off the couch and remember my knee having a sharp pain in it. That was about a month ago. I didn't tell anyone because i didn't want to seem like i was complaining or making excuses for anything. Plus i wasn't doing anything at the time i realized it hurt, so i figured it couldn't be anything big. After a couple of weeks, i had to finally tell someone so i went to St. Vincent's Sports Performance (where i worked out at before draft) and got my knee looked at. That was right before i moved to Portland for good. My knee was swollen since i was there. I finally just said that i need to tell my trainer because this is not normal. We went to the doctor's the next day to get a MRI and that night me and my mom ended up in the doctor's office being told that I have to get surgery. It's a light one, just a scoop, but still it's just another setback. I would like for me to be playing and not seem like i'm a high-maintenance player, but things just keep popping up.

Please, Brandon Roy, LaMarcus Aldridge, and teammates: do not use couches. They are not safe.

(Note: yes, astute readers, I did slightly edit his writing -- capitalizing the word "I" and the like. I also, you might note, fixed the spelling of "couch," which he typed as "coach." Or, you know, maybe I have this all wrong. In which case I have to apologize to couches everywhere, and wonder why in the hell Greg Oden was sitting on Nate McMillan. UPDATE: Note to even more astute readers: the original post on Yardbarker has been edited, and fixes the coach/couch conundrum and some other typos. I have updated my quote accordingly.)