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Oden's Muscle Gain Worrying McMillan, Blazers
Oden is doing what most people with too much idle time tend to do: gain weight. Only Oden is bulking up instead of fattening up, and the No. 1 overall pick may be too buff, too fast. "We don't want him to get bigger. That's going to come," Portland coach Nate McMillan said on Friday night. "It's very easy for him to put a lot of weight on having a year off. We've really got to be careful about the weight training with him." Oden, who will miss this season after he had knee surgery, was in the weight room Friday night before the Trail Blazers played the Philadelphia 76ers, sculpting his upper body. The 7-footer looked chiseled and has gained nearly 30 pounds of muscle -- all in the upper body -- since he was drafted. He is up to 280 pounds. That's too much weight to carry on a surgically repaired knee, and McMillan is mildly concerned. "I would much rather have him be wiry strong than bulky, especially coming off a surgery," McMillan said. "When you're talking about putting on extra weight and having to carry that weight on a surgically repaired leg, that's not good. We want to be really careful with the weight training with him." Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Oden Gains 30 Pounds Of Muscle
Translation: That's 30 pounds of muscle that has been attached to his upper-body (he hasn't been able to do any lower body weight training because of his knee surgery). Oden wasn't able to lift during college because he was recovering from a wrist injury. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Roy Scores 32 As Blazers Beat Mavs For The First Time Since 2003
LaMarcus Aldridge added 18 points and eight rebounds for the Blazers, who extended their modest winning streak to three games after dropping the first three of the season. Josh Howard had 20 points for Dallas, which had won its last three. Dallas had won the previous 13 games against the Trail Blazers, a streak dating to the 2003-04 season, including a six-game winning streak at the Rose Garden. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Trail Blazers Nov 2007 Archive
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Greg Oden might be too pumped up for his eventual NBA debut.
Brandon Roy scored a career-high 32 points and added seven assists, and the Portland Trail Blazers ended a 13-game losing streak to the Dallas Mavericks with a 91-82 victory Saturday night.