Oden Takes High Road, Bows Out Of Summer League

Greg Oden is a gentleman's gentleman. What more can you say about the guy after learning that he has bowed out of the rest of this season's Summer League games? Obviously the most natural conclusion to draw is that this was an act of deference and submission to Marco Belinelli as the run-away Rookie of the Year, in spite of it only being July.

Now the Blazers would like us to believe that this hiatus has been brought upon as a result of health-related issues, but we've all been around the game long enough to see right through that kind of posturing. Tonsils the size of golf balls? We're not buying it, Blazers. The only golf balls responsible for this move are the ones nestled snuggly beneath Marco Belinelli's compression shorts.