Greg Oden

Gregory Wayne Oden, Jr. is an American professional basketball player who last played for the Jiangsu Dragons of the Chinese Basketball Association and is currently a student manager for the Ohio State Buckeyes. Oden, a 7160ft 0160in , 273pound center, played college basketball at Ohio State University for one season, during which the team was the Big Ten Champion and the tournament runnerup in the NCAA Mens Division I Basketball Championship.

Oden was born in Buffalo, New York, and moved with his family to Terre Haute, Indiana at the age of nine. He attended Sarah Scott Middle School in Terre Haute, where he first played interscholastic basketball. Oden then relocated with his mother and brother and attended Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis, Indiana which he led to three consecutive Indiana Class 4A basketball championships before graduating in 2006. He was named Parades High School CoPlayer of the Year 2005 and 2005 National Boys Basketball Player of the Year. He repeated as Gatorade National Boys Basketball Player of the Year in 2006. Oden was named the 2006 Indiana Mr. Basketball. He was also on the McDonalds AllAmerican Team and played in the AllAmerican game, and earned firstteam Parade AllAmerican honors for the second straight year.

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