{"id":40474,"date":"2013-10-02T23:13:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-03T03:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=40474"},"modified":"2013-10-02T23:13:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-03T03:13:07","slug":"greg-odens-return-to-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/10\/greg-odens-return-to-basketball","title":{"rendered":"Greg Oden&#8217;s Return To Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/10\/greg-odens-return-to-basketball-40474.html\/oden\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-40475\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40475\" title=\"oden\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/oden.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/oden.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/oden-150x112.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/oden-250x187.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>Former number one overall pick Greg Oden\u2019s journey back to the NBA has been a slow, painful, uphill battle.<\/p>\n<p>But at least now he\u2019s on a roster worth fighting for.<\/p>\n<p>Oden, who hasn\u2019t played in an NBA game since December 2009 and has only played 82 games in over 4 years, arrived in the Bahamas for training camp with the Miami Heat, who signed him for the league minimum as a free agent over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can run,\u201d Oden told Fox Sports. \u201cThe past three years, I haven\u2019t been able to do that. \u2026 I\u2019ve got a lot to prove to myself. I\u2019ve been rehabbing for three years. \u2026 It\u2019s been a long road.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s no guarantee that his time with the Heat will end better than his days with the Portland Trail Blazers, who made him the No. 1 pick in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve got to go through training camp and make sure my body holds up. If the knee holds up, I would hope they will let me play in the preseason,\u201d Oden said.<\/p>\n<p>He participated in about half of the Heat\u2019s practices this week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt felt good just being out there,\u201d Oden, who hasn\u2019t been cleared for contact, according to the Sun-Sentinel.\u201cFirst time in a while, I\u2019m happy I got it completed. They had to pull me off the floor. But I\u2019ve got to take steps.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s step by step, practice by practice, minute by minute,\u201d Coach Erik Spoelstra said. \u201cSo he was able to do about a half-hour of work today, the majority of it non-contact, and that was a big bonus and we\u2019ll move on from here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DxM7CxkBmyk\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former number one overall pick Greg Oden\u2019s journey back to the NBA has been a slow, painful, uphill battle. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40474","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40474"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40474\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}