Mike Conley Senior, the father of Greg Oden’s friend and teammate, Mike Conley Jr. and an athlete in his own right- winning Olympic gold in the triple jump, had this to say about Greg Oden in the days before he was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers.
"He's Shaq but shoots free throws," Conley said. "He has close to a 40-inch vertical jump. You've never seen anyone like him. You can't label him like Dwight Howard or like Shaq. Both of them are great, but he's neither one. He's a new kind of athlete."
