ohshit!

BREAKING: Yahoo’s Adrian Wojnarowski breaks the news that Portland’s No. 1 draft pick, Greg Oden, is done for the season.

Ouch. Greg, update your blog now, dammit!

ESPN has some more on this breaking story. UPDATE: Oden did talk about some of this in his blog at Yardbarker. Yes, we’re crying. Gotta ask yourself … do you think Portland wishes it hadn’t dealt Zach Randolph?

ALSO: Wikipedia, which amazingly already has the Oden surgery listed, also offers up a few names of NBA stars who have had the deadly microfracture surgery: “Jason Kidd, John Stockton and Zach Randolph have been able to return at or near their pre-surgery form while players Brian Grant, Allan Houston and Penny Hardaway never regained their old form while others as Jamal Mashburn and Terrell Brandon never recovered and retired.

In October 2005, young star Amare Stoudemire of the NBA’s Phoenix Suns underwent one of the highest-profile microfracture surgeries to date. He returned to the court in March 2006 and initially appeared to have made a full recovery, but subsequently started feeling stiffness in both knees (his right knee had been overcompensating for the injured left knee). He and the team doctor decided he needed more time to rehab and he did not return until the 2006-2007 NBA season. During the 2006-2007 season, Stoudemire has returned to form, registering numbers comparable to his breakout 2004-05 campaign and playing in the 2007 NBA All-Star Game. His recent success has brought positive publicity to the procedure, further distancing it from a previous reputation as a possible “career death sentence” in the sports world although he was one of the youngest of the aforementioned players to undergo the surgery.”