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Can't miss this: Oden, Durant don't get any better

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Tuesday, June 26, 2007

You know the NBA draft is almost here because we've gone from building up the best players to tearing them down. Greg Oden has gone from the next Bill Russell to a walking list of physical maladies, ranging from his right wrist to his lower back to his legs of mismatched length. Kevin Durant has gone from the next Kevin Garnett to a weakling who couldn't bench-press 185 pounds even once at the Orlando draft camp. So we welcome the best one-two draft combo since LeBron and Carmelo -- whoops, De ...

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