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The Morning According to Us

By Chris Sprow

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

How is it possible that we can already invoke the names of Bill Walton, Sam Bowie and Ralph Sampson—brilliant, tall talent cursed by a bad knee, bad foot…bad karma? How can we do that to Greg Oden, or ourselves? But when it already happens, when the man who looks like Bill Russell in a Just For Men commercial has to catch a charter flight home and skip a day on the road trip for yet another MRI, well… We'll give it to Oden. It's hard to hype a team like the Blazers have be ...

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