Greg Oden is going No. 1, yawn

June 28th, 2007 | Posted by PostmanR

According to the WWL, Portland will select Greg Oden with the first pick in tonight’s NBA draft. So now, we await what sort of suit Greg will be wearing and if the NBA is going to be able to construct a hat large enough to fit on his dome.

Acie Law’s take on the Oden-Durant decision is pretty spot on.

“Without question, Kevin Durant’s the most talented player in this draft,” Texas A&M point guard Acie Law said. “But if I’m building a franchise, as most teams at the top of the draft are, you can’t pass up a guy you can just build your team around. Because there’s guys in the league that can score 20, 25 a game, like Kevin Durant can, but you’re not going to find a 7-foot manchild that can just patrol your line for 10, 12 years.”

A manchild, indeed.