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Jack Brickman said:
Maybe this is just me, but if I were a former top basketball prospect, I wouldn't want to join a contending team mid-season knowing I had no chance of actually playing this year just to get a ring I wouldn't actually do anything to earn.
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I think that's where you and Oden are different. Oden has already said he's not going to play this year.
 
I doubt Miami signs him either. He can't play anymore. That is the truth.
 
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There has been a Greg Oden sighting on East 4th. Business or pleasure? I'll just assume pleasure until there is a mentioning of dried ink on a contract.

(Sorry I can't figure out how to rotate this damn thing on my iPad)


Edit: Completely forgot Conley would be in town.
 
He is at the game tonight
 
Better be at the Celeveland clinic getting a new freakin knee if he signs here.

....dont play that ish
 
Interesting. Think I heard Hang on Sloopy during the game tonight. The Cavs have no OSU players.
 
From Jason Lloyd:

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[h=1]Greg Oden says he's still interested in signing with Cavs
[/h] CLEVELAND: Greg Oden had a pretty good view of the Cavs’ game against the Memphis Grizzlies on Friday. Maybe, just maybe, he’ll have an even better seat at the Q next season.

Oden attended the Cavs’ game Friday as a guest of Memphis Grizzlies point guard Mike Conley Jr., his best friend since childhood – yet wound up in Cavs owner Dan Gilbert’s baseline seats adjacent the Cavs’ bench.


Gilbert wasn’t in attendance Friday, so arena personnel invited Oden to move down from his original seats five rows behind the Cavs’ bench. It was a fascinating scene, given the negotiations between the Cavs and Oden’s agent – who also happens to be Conley’s father.


Oden was showed on the video board twice during the game as fans cheered and said he is still interested in playing for the Cavs despite not signing a contract yet.


“I live in Ohio. It’s home now,” Oden said. “They have a great organization and I really do think they’re up and coming.”


The Cavs are believed to have offered Oden a two-year deal that would begin this season and include a team option for a third year, but Oden hasn’t signed. Now it’s looking like he won’t sign a deal until this summer, when more teams will have cap space and the demand could increase.


“Obviously the longer it goes, the more it looks like that” he won’t sign until summer, Oden’s agent, Mike Conley Sr. said Friday.


The game against the Grizzlies was Oden’s first Cavs game as a casual fan. He lives in Columbus again and said the organization’s partnership with the Cleveland Clinic will be a factor in his decision.


“With my process, one of the top two things I have to think about is the medical staff and how is it going to help me,” Oden said. “I want to play and I want to play for some time. Not just come in and see what happens. I want to be able to have a career.”


Asked what his expectations are once he returns to the NBA, Oden paused for a moment.


“I hope I can contribute to a good team,” Oden said. “I definitely think I’m that type of player, but I have to get on the court.”


Oden hasn’t played in an NBA game since Dec. 5, 2009. He has endured three microfracture surgeries on his knees, including two on his left knee.


Conley Jr. said Oden’s spirits are at an all-time high and conceded all of the injuries with the Portland Trail Blazers left him depressed.


“Now he’s loving life. He’s loving the game, he watches all the games and texts me when I have good and bad games,” Conley Jr. said. “He loves Cleveland, loves the state of Ohio. He lives in Columbus and he’d like to be as close to home as possible, so what better place than Cleveland? I think that’d be a great spot for him. Hopefully something will work out.”


 
kovanovich said:
Interesting. Think I heard Hang on Sloopy during the game tonight. The Cavs have no OSU players.
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It's part of the routine at the Q. They play it every game.

I hope he signs here and can stay healthy. I think he can still be a double double machine, although now closer to 14 and 10 than before the injury when he was capable of being a 20 and 12 guy.
 
“Now he’s loving life. He’s loving the game, he watches all the games and texts me when I have good and bad games,” Conley Jr. said. “He loves Cleveland, loves the state of Ohio. He lives in Columbus and he’d like to be as close to home as possible, so what better place than Cleveland? I think that’d be a great spot for him. Hopefully something will work out.”
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Well, that is certainly encouraging
 
I have little to no idea what the market will be for him this summer, and how many years the winning team gives him. And if he actually does stay healthy, what his second contract would look like. :confused: I'd love to see him here. I am so sick of Zeller. He should be playing less than half the minutes per game he's playing right now if he were on a legit team. Hopefully next year Speights is gone, and we can bring in Oden and a draft pick to join Andy/TT.
 
I'm really surprised he isn't signing this year. Wherever he signs, the team will want a 2014-15 team option given the risk, signing now gives that team bird rights at the end of the contract. THey don't get that in 2015 if he waits until the summer. That could mean millions of dollars of difference and potentially cost him the chance to stay with the team he signs with.
 
He was at the Cavs game last night. They showed him on the jumbo screen a couple of times and everyone cheered. They started playing hang on sloopy once also.
 
KI4MVP said:
I'm really surprised he isn't signing this year. Wherever he signs, the team will want a 2014-15 team option given the risk, signing now gives that team bird rights at the end of the contract. THey don't get that in 2015 if he waits until the summer. That could mean millions of dollars of difference and potentially cost him the chance to stay with the team he signs with.
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The longer he waits, the more teams will be interested, and more likely to create a bidding war for his services. If he was to sign now, his options would be the Cavs, and...who else? In the summertime other teams would have a better idea of their salary situation.
 
His trying to get paid. Period. There is no reason he would have waited until the end of the season if it wasn't the case.

All this angling towards Cleveland is a move he hopes will run up his asking price. He def wants to be in Cleveland but his hoping this summer, he can get a couple of more millions guaranteed, with a few teams bidding up. Don't blame him, cuz if his knees fail him again, it'll be the last money he earns from the NBA.
 
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