Fellow No. 1 Pick Andrew Bogut Believes Naysayers Should Lay Off Greg Oden

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Greg OdenMILWAUKEE -- Being selected No. 1 in the NBA draft makes for being in a pretty elite fraternity. There are only 15 such active players in the NBA.

One, 2005 top man Andrew Bogut, says it's time for Portland's Greg Oden to stop hearing talk that he's an NBA bust. That's despite news that Oden will miss the rest of this season due to yet another knee injury.

"I think he's three or four years from that now,'' Bogut, a Milwaukee center, said Thursday in an interview with FanHouse about Oden going No. 1 in 2007. "So I think people should probably forget about that. The way I look at it, at that time he was the best player in the draft. People might argue (Oklahoma City forward Kevin) Durant now in hindsight. But back then it was a tossup between those two, and he was probably the best player at that time. The (Portland) GMs didn't make a mistake. He just happened to be injured, and hasn't really had that good run that other guys have.''

Bogut was disappointed to hear Wednesday that Oden, who hasn't played since suffering a knee injury last December, must undergo season-ending microfracture surgery. That means Oden, at the end of the season, will have missed 246 of his first 328 NBA games due to injuries to both knees.

 

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Source: http://nba.fanhouse.com/2010/11/18/fellow-no-1-pick-andrew-bogut-believes-naysayers-should-lay-off/

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