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Contents 1 Comments 2 Photo 3 Height and weight 4 External links 5 weight 6 World's Sexiest Porn Star 7 who did that 8 This is getting annoying. 9 Pre-Draft section 10 Obama

[edit] Comments

This guy is a monster! He will make an immediate impact once he is drafted. He is 18 but he already looks like he is almost 40. weird. [1]

It's nice that you think that, but it's not deserving of this or any article. Stating someone looks 42 is something that you say only when watching a game and paying mediocre attention. So I'm deleting that part of the main article. 49giantsharks 22:00, 3 February 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Photo

Would it be possible to get a picture of Oden on here? I think that would greatly help the article. -Andrew 02:41, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

As long as the picture is free of copyright issues. Chensiyuan 02:48, 21 April 2007 (UTC)

The current one is strecthed too big... does anyone know how to resize it?Miles Blues 05:32, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

It appears to be of doubtful copyright status. In any event, no the pic is always stretched to fix the infobox. Chensiyuan 06:00, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

I just saw the same pic on nba.com so i've taken it off. Chensiyuan 06:47, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Height and weight

Is there a reason why the infobox still has what the article text identifies as his high school height and weight instead of his official NBA predraft measurements? Every time it's changed, somebody always comes along and reverts it. Wouldn't the newer info be more relevant to the article than some numbers which are at least a year old, or are we just waiting until he's actually drafted before making the change? --Billdorr 01:10, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

I think the NBA's measurements are likely the closest to reality; the ones from high school and college are often inflated. I have to wonder if Oden was ever 280 lbs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.21.100.212 (talk) 23:11, 11 June 2007

I swear, it's a bot or something that keeps changing it back. That, or somebody just doesn't read the edit summaries before they revert. --Billdorr 20:33, 13 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] External links

Which links are the ones being objected to?

[edit] weight

I would like to say that NBA.com has his weight at 250, not 257. I corrected the right weight.

I would like to say NBA pre draft combine has his weight at 257, and given that they actualy weighed him, not NBA.com, I think this is the more accurate measurement.

[edit] World's Sexiest Porn Star

Umm, yeah...someone tell me that's not serious right?

Pingsteal 05:22, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

What are you referring to. Chensiyuan 06:34, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] who did that

who changed his weight back to 257? NBA.com has it as 250, the weight in here is wrong!

No its not! he was weighed at the pre-draft combine and his weight was 257lbs not 250lbs nba.com DO NOT weigh the players.

[edit] This is getting annoying.

Who keeps changing his weight back to 257 and why? That is WRONG! Why does it keep being reset!

Possibly the same person who kept reverting it to 280 back when the 257 number was released at the pre-draft camp. FYI, 257 is the weight given at Blazers.com, so it's not totally incorrect. I suspect it's a bot or some other sort of automation mistaking the change as vandalism. BTW, please sign your posts. --Billdorr 21:46, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Pre-Draft section

What purpose does the pre-draft section serve? "Rumors are the Blazers are going to take him" "Wait, they denied it!" "No, they really are!" Once he's actually been drafted, doesn't all that speculation become a moo point (you know, like a cow's opinion)? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.109.103.194 (talk) 20:54, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Obama

Is the fact that he endorsed Barack Obama really relevant? The guy is a professional athlete, and not even a politically active one. I think it is something that should be removed, but am open to other interpretations.

While I don't think it's bad to leave it on there, it may need to be spruced up some. If you look at the pages for the other athletes who have endorsed Obama it's only mentioned when a source is cited for when they decided to endorse it.

I know He mentioned it on a Blazer's broadcast, wrote a blog post about it, and talked about it on Jim Rome is Burning - maybe we should site a source for one of those records of it? Pcrackenhead (talk) 22:03, 23 April 2008 (UTC)