Greg Oden has gigantism

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It hasn't been brought up because he doesn't have it. Seriously, if he'd shown symptoms he would've been tested.

looking 50 years old when you are only 19 isn't a symptom?

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And he was like the athletic opposite of Oden.

no, I am asking you if the NBA was aware that Muresan had that desease or not...you said they get tested

[The Answer]

no, I am asking you if the NBA was aware that Muresan had that desease or not...you said they get tested

Yes, of course they were aware, just like Utah was aware when they drafted Pavel. Neither was the number one pick, though. Why have you disregarded my point about athleticism and stamina? That's the definitive prove.

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Yes, of course they were aware, just like Utah was aware when they drafted Pavel. Neither was the number one pick, though. Why have you disregarded my point about athleticism and stamina? That's the definitive prove.

I haven't disregarded it....I am just not conviced that having a hormone defect causes you to be less athletic or have less stamina....but if you are right you are right....it isn't a brain tumor though

[The Answer]

I haven't disregarded it....I am just not conviced that having a hormone defect causes you to be less athletic or have less stamina....but if you are right you are right....it isn't a brain tumor though

It's not just a hormonal defect. Gigantism is caused by a brain tumor on the pituitary gland, which causes excess production of growth hormone.

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It's not just a hormonal defect. Gigantism is a brain tumor on the pituitary gland, which causes excess production of growth hormone.

so, why would that make you less athletic or have less stamina?

all it is really doing is causeing his body to produce more hormone...it isn't taking his lungs away from him...

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so, why would that make you less athletic or have less stamina?

all it is really doing is causeing his body to produce more hormone...it isn't taking his lungs away from him...

Honestly, all I can say is brain tumors mess people up. I'm not gonna BS some advanced scientific explanation because, truthfully, I'm no expert on the subject. However, everyone that I've ever heard of having gigantism (from Robert Wadlow to Sun Ming Ming) has awful stamina and athleticism, and it has always been blamed as the cause of that.

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Honestly, all I can say is brain tumors mess people up. I'm not gonna BS some advanced scientific explanation because, truthfully, I'm no expert on the subject. However, everyone that I've ever heard of having gigantism (from Robert Wadlow to Sun Ming Ming) has awful stamina and athleticism, and it has always been blamed as the cause of that.

ok, I guess I will take your word here...

but it is still impossible for me to look at a picture of Oden and not think to myself that his hormones have to be malfunctioning in some way...

[Valliant13]

Whew...good thing you caught that when the league doctors missed it.
The level of medical expertise on this thread is astonishing.

[Cherokee Parks]

The next Michael Olowokandi.....

[dawsey6]

looking 50 years old when you are only 19 isn't a symptom?

No.

[BostonsAccent]

Some people are just ugly. Not everyone that's ugly has a disease.

[Cherokee Parks]

He looks like a 50 yr old Kurt Thomas....

[dawsey6]

He looks like a 50 yr old Kurt Thomas....

wait til he actually IS 50. : that'll be a treat.

[qwerty]

Typical adult heights of Americans and Europeans to whom the term might be applied are 225 - 240 cm (7'6" - 8 feet). The term is rarely applied to those whose heights appear to be the healthy result of normal genetics and nutrition.

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