{"id":295,"date":"2011-06-30T00:55:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T05:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/?p=295"},"modified":"2011-06-30T00:55:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T05:55:19","slug":"blazers-extend-qualifying-offer-to-greg-oden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/2011\/06\/30\/blazers-extend-qualifying-offer-to-greg-oden\/","title":{"rendered":"Blazers Extend Qualifying Offer to Greg Oden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Oden.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/inkstarzz.com\/sports\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Oden.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Oden\" width=\"233\" height=\"216\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Portland Trailblazers have annouced that they will extend qualifying offer to free agent Greg Oden. Greg Oden, most known for his dominating year at Ohio State and his injury-plagued NBA career, is said to be greatly valued by the Blazers organization and team president Larry Miller feels a healthy Oden can help bring a championship to the team. I see it like this- yes maybe he can help bring a championship to the team if they trade him for the right pieces, but I can&#8217;t see a team having that much faith in a guy that has only played 82 games in four seasons. Is this Portland&#8217;s way of not wanting to admit they made the wrong draft choice by not drafting Kevin Durant or does this team actually have faith in Oden? Regardless of what we think, Oden will be a Blazer for at least another year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Portland Trailblazers have annouced that they will extend qualifying offer to free agent Greg Oden. Greg Oden, most known for his dominating year at Ohio State and his injury-plagued NBA career, is said to be greatly valued by the Blazers organization and team president Larry Miller feels a healthy Oden can help bring a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[580,1950,1112],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yesiball.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}