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Nude photographs of Trailblazers center Greg Oden have surfaced on the internet. Oden admitted to sending the images, via his mobile device, to an ex-college squeeze he was romantically involved with. He also made a public apology:

“I would like to apologize to everybody: Portland, the fans, the organization. It was very embarrassing.”

Kids these days call it “sexting,” the sending of sultry images accompanied by flirtatious text messages to try and steam things up in young couples’ relationship.

Who would of thought Oden to be such a young Casanova?

Anyone seen my cellphone? (Credit: picapp.com)

Naturally this is a inflated story since Oden, the #1 overall pick in the 2007 draft, has experienced his second season-ending knee injury of his career this year. Since media currently can’t cover his on court accomplishments, they are going to focus on his off court lifestyle.

Oden seems to forget at times that he is a celebrity. Starting from his Ohio State career and moving onto his #1 overall draft pick status, Oden will, without a doubt, be in the spotlight for years. He is only 22, and people forget this fact from time to time. I mean, the guy looks old, so old in fact we did a Benjamin Button Greg Oden lookalike piece. That is how old we think he looks over here at Protect the Paint.

Is this really such a big deal?

It is not like Oden was pulled over on a motorcycle as if his name were Mad Max. That is Delonte West’s dilemna, remember?

Oden never brought illegal handguns into the locker room, and threatened Brandon Roy over a in flight gambling debt. He did not hand one to Roy and attempt some sort of idiotic joke with weapons. That is all Gilbert Arenas’ department.

He has not violated the league drug policy. Oden does not have wings tattooed on his arms, that was Chris “Birdman” Andersen.

My point is Oden did something over a 1.5 years ago, and it was done privately. The girl leaked it, and so it goes. Does his actions have any impact on anyone else other than himself? Not really.

Is nudity something worth getting bent out of shape over?

Oden is no Kim Kardashian, and we probably (hopefully) won’t see Oden on a bed taking provocatively slow bites from a large Carl’s Junior hamburger anytime soon. It’s  because Oden is a celebrity and people (unfortunately) love it when bad things happen to celebrities that this becomes big news.

Here is a video montage of the pictures, courtesy of worldstarhiphop.com:

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