How Does the Oden Injury Affect the Bulls?

By now you’ve surely heard that Greg Oden, the number one pick in the NBA draft, is going to miss out on his first year with the Portland Trial Blazers due to a knee injury he sustained in the off season. Clearly this is bad news for the Blazers, who had nothing but high hopes for their rookie out of Ohio State. Maybe some Blazers fans even wish that Portland had drafted Kevin Durant instead. The rest of the NBA seems to be getting a break, either big or small, from this event, due to the fact that they won’t have to play against Oden. But you might be wondering at this point: How does this injury affect the Bulls? This is, after all, a Bulls blog.

Well, the Bulls don’t seem to factor into this situation much at all. Since they are an Eastern Conference team they will play the Blazers only a limited number of times this upcoming year. The only real area where the Bulls and the Oden injury seem to overlap is that we won’t get a certain NCAA Championship rematch storyline attached to the Blazers-Bulls games. As you might be aware, the Bulls drafted forward-center Joakim Noah out of Florida, which means that Oden and Noah played against each other in the 2007 NCAA title game. Oden will have to wait for his revenge.

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