The Hawks and the Thunder got really lucky

[capstone21]

Oden is injured again. He is out for the season again.

I have a feeling if Portland had their time back the draft would have went differently.

While the blazers got an often injured center the thunder got a future superstar and we got a very solid pf/c.

[thefloydian]

Oden is done. It's a shame too because I was looking forward to watching that Blazers team for years to come.

[gsuteke]

The Hawks got lucky period.

The Al Horford pick that year was destined for Pheonix. Billy Knight had sold our soul and all we could hope for was ping pong balls. The Suns should have had the 5th or 6th pick in the draft that year.

[EazyRoc]

Phoenix with Al Horford and Amare Stoudemire would be scary.

[capstone21]

Phoenix with Al Horford and Amare Stoudemire would be scary.

Al would not have been in PHX. We only got the pick if we were in the top 3. PHX got our pick if we finished further back from that. We won the lottery pick which was lucky and as a result we didn't have to give PHX the pick until the following year (and we had made the playoffs that year so the pick was the 15th pick).

[ATLNY7]

Too bad for Oden.