Amar’e Stoudemire won’t be in a Phoenix Suns uniform this time next season because a team will overpay for his offense only, me-first game this summer. Some owner and GM will be lured in by Stoudemire highlights like him dunking on Portland’s Dante Cunningham. His skills qualify Amar’e as a piece of a championship team but his mindset is that he’s a franchise player. He’s wrong and so is the team that anchors their title hopes to him. Read the full story

Pictures of a nude Greg Oden hit the Internet (and nearly broke it), embarrassing and immortaling Oden at the same time. Oden joined John Canzano on Portland’s 95.5 Bald Faced Truth to talk about the photos leaking. You can hear the pain in Oden’s voice when says things like:

I’m definitely sorry. It was definitely really embarrassing. I wanna apologize to the orgainization. I apologize to Mr. Allen and the fans and definitely my family.

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• Greg Oden’s latest injury has Blazers fans singing the blues

I’m not ready to write off Greg Oden of the Portland Trailblazers yet, but if past performance is indicative of future results he’s not gonna spend a lot of time on the court. He injured his wrist his only season at Ohio St. and he’s now in his second season in the league and he still hasn’t played one full game. I wanna believe Greg’s body will eventually allow him to play basketball without any major injuries even though at the age of 55 it’s amazing he’s lasted this long.