Greg Oden: “I had a leg length differential my whole life. Basically, when I was in the sixth grade, my leg was falling out of my hip. When I went to get an X-ray, by the time I took the bus home, my mom literally picked me up from the bus stop by our house and drove me all the way back to the hospital. They said that if I had spent another day like that, my leg was going to fall out of my hip—that’s how fast I was growing. To this day, I still have two pins in my hip. Because of that, I used to always walk with a limp, and my body got used to it. When I got to Portland, I got orthotics that helped correct it, but I don’t think my body was used to the change. I swear to God, the next day after getting orthotics, my knee blew up. Probably a week later, I was having microfracture surgery—and that was the end of my rookie season.” -via YouTube / February 26, 2025
