Greg Oden Has Fractured Left Patella, Likely Finished For Season

According to the Portland Trail Blazers’ official twitter account:

This is obviously devastating news for both the Blazers and Oden, who has now suffered season-ending injuries in two of his first three years in the NBA. While Oden was still foul-prone, he had undeniably improved this season, and seemed on the verge of fulfilling some of the mammoth potential that led the Blazers to select him first overall in the 2007 draft.

Oden’s latest injury is particularly bitter for a Blazers franchise that has been snake-bitten when it comes to highly drafted big men. From Bill Walton, to Sam Bowie (who the team infamously took ahead of a shooting guard named Michael Jordan), now to Greg Oden (who the team took ahead of Kevin Durant), the Blazers have had a bevy of highly touted centers had their careers derailed by repeated injuries.