Greg Oden has been working out at Ohio State and Buckeyes coach Thad Matta told reporters on Wednesday the former center could make another run at an NBA comeback. Speaking in Portland before Ohio State’s opening-round NCAA tournament game vs. VCU on Thursday, Matta said Oden has been doing “high-level training” with Ohio State coaches for the past six months. Oden, a first-overall draft pick by the Portland Trail Blazers in 2007, struggled with injuries in the NBa and appeared in only 105 games over three seasons from 2008 to 2014. The 7-foot center spent only one season with Ohio State, the 2006–07 campaign in which the Buckeyes lost to Florida in the national championship. • THAMEL: Jim Boeheim’s retirement shows Syracuse still hasn’t learned “Quite honestly, I haven’t seen Greg look this good since when he played for us back in the day at Ohio State,” Matta said. ‘”His attitude is off the charts. He went through a lot. You look at Greg’s life, how difficult things have been. I know that he is a kid that never wanted to let people down. The injuries, you know, none of us can prevent those. I know there’s part of him that wishes that stuff couldn’t have happened. …
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