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Draft Watch: How good can Greg Oden be?

By Chad Ford
ESPN.com

Monday, May 21, 2007

INDIANAPOLIS -- Greg Oden's been called many things: the next Tim Duncan, a future Hall of Famer, a dead ringer for Grandpa LeBron. But "exciting" and "explosive" aren't usually the first words that come to mind. When we're talking about this year's draft, those adjectives are more commonly applied to Oden's primary competition for the No. 1 pick in the draft -- Texas forward Kevin Durant. Oden is usually thought of as the big guy with the back-to-the-basket game, the guy who will be a stalwa ...

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