Counting down the 25 best Trail Blazers performances of the last 25 years.
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Over the final six weeks until the start of training camp, we will be counting down the 25 best individual performances by Trail Blazers players in the last 25 years.
Sean Highkin
Other entries: 25-23 | 20-19 | 18-17 | 16-15 | 14-13 | 12-11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1
No. 22
The player: Greg Oden
The game: February 8, 2009 vs. New York Knicks
The stats: 17 points, 7-of-11 shooting (63.6%), 3-of-5 free throws, 12 rebounds, 1 assist, 6 blocks in 27 minutes
In the four-plus years Greg Oden was on the Trail Blazers' roster, he played exactly one season's worth of games—82—and has become one of the NBA's definitive what-ifs this century. You may be familiar with who was drafted right after him.
Games like this one, midway through his first healthy season in 2008-09, are exactly why, almost 20 years later, that what-if is still talked about.
