Greg Oden
Greg Oden
Gregory Wayne Oden, Jr.is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Jiangsu Dragons of the Chinese Basketball Association. Oden, a 7 ft 0 in, 273-pound center, played college basketball at Ohio State University for one season, during which the team was the Big Ten Champion and the tournament runner-up in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship. He currently serves as a student manager for the Ohio State Buckeyes...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth22 January 1988
CityBuffalo, NY
hours pizza
It was two hours of that, ... Pizza and Nickelodeon.
confidence confident great mess players team teammates
You always feel confident when you have great players around you. For me, just being on this team is a confidence booster. If I mess up, I know my teammates have got me.
against backed best brian challenge guys hard quarter tried
Most guys give up after one quarter against me. He tried hard the whole game. That's the best challenge I've had all year. Brian never backed down.
help teammates
I don't know. My teammates help me out so much. It's all them.
raised understand
You are who raised you. I've never been into entourages and stuff, and I know Zoe hasn't either, ... That's why I understand when he comes here and doesn't want to be bothered.
cable everybody food lay sure wants watch
Everybody wants to show him off, but I don't do that, ... If he wants to lay there, I make sure he has cable to watch and food to eat.
good
It was fun. We had a good time,
attending coach experience learning sonny work
I told him that I don't think I'm ready, but the big thing he and coach Conley and Sonny all said was, without me attending and playing, that I won't know where I stand. If anything, it'll be a learning experience to see what I have to work on.
greatest happy win
This is one of my greatest moments. I'm very happy to win this award, and I'm very grateful.
challenged coach good improve love point time
Coach Conley made the point that I've challenged myself from the time I was young and goofy. It would be a good thing to challenge myself and see what I've got to improve on. I'd love to do it (Olympic workouts).
good players team
No, really. There are a lot of good players here. My whole team is better than me.
family good helped people
They were just there. They were always there, just being the kind of people they are, ... They helped me see they were the kind of people I wanted to be, good family men, making a living, being happy.
angry argue broke mom
I was just angry at my mom, ... I don't know if it was because they broke up, but I used to argue with my mom a lot, just over little things.
care everybody people
I thanked everybody because I can't be there all the time, ... He has a lot of people that care about him, which makes a lot of difference.