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Greg Oden 'Hated Life' When NBA Salaries Soared After His Retirement

Former No. 1 NBA draft pick Greg Ogden said he ‘wanted to kill everybody’ when the league increased salaries right after he retired

Mozgov’s 2016 four-year contract with the Lakers, which was actually a $64 million deal, drew widespread criticism at the time as some people felt his stats didn’t justify the huge payday. Ricky Bassman/Cal Sport Media/Newscom/Mega AgencyOgden was one to watch when he was drafted by the Portland Trail Blazers in June 2007, but from the beginning of his NBA career, injuries interfered with his ability to play. “By the time I got back [from playing in China in 2016], I probably drank every day, basically numbed myself to forget those feelings that it was over,” he said during an April 2019 panel discussion titled “When Sports End,” per The Columbus Dispatch.

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