Lakers Blog: Some ESPN The Magazine work took me to a commercial shoot featuring some dudes from the Cavs and Blazers. One of them happened to be Greg Oden, and I managed to grab a few quick minutes with him to talk about Andrew Bynum.
The Lakers open the regular season against Portland, providing the first glimpse of a big man matchup theoretically poised to entertain for years. While Oden offered praise for Drew (“He does everything a good post guy is supposed to do”), I got the vibe that an “Oden-Bynum” analysis was a little cart ahead of the horse in his mind.
While acknowledging Bynum as a tough assignment (in a good way), he seemed understandably more concerned with simply getting an NBA game under his belt after a year recovering from micro-fracture surgery: Plus, having met Oden a few times, he’s always struck me as a low key guy not particularly comfortable hyping himself or events.
I imagine fans from both teams will pick up the slack for him.
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