I don't mean to be a negative nancy, but I have questions.
Imagine you are Greg Oden. You have no real loyalties to any team (except Portland and maybe a hometown team like Indiana or Cleveland). The world champion Miami Heat featuring the best basketball player alive want you to come play short minutes under zero pressure while hanging and training for a few years with a bunch of living legends. By the way, no one will ever point a camera at you unless you happen to be standing next to Lebron James.
OR
You can go to a small city in the Northeast that is somehow populated almost entirely by sportswriters and commentators who, thanks to Danny Ainge, have no one else interesting to talk about. They will dedicate several hours every single day on the radio and in print to dissecting your every move, questioning your heart, hashing and rehashing whether or not you are a "bust," wondering aloud how old you are, whether you deceived Blazers doctors back in the day, whether you are salvageable, whether you should be traded, what the fact that you once texted someone a photo of your junk means about your character, etc etc etc. You can have the starter job, if you're up to it, and do what you will. By the way, Your coach is a rookie, none of your teammates know much of anything except for the dude in the knee brace playing connect four, and half of your fans kinda want you to lose.
Friends, from everything we've read about the guy, he'd really like to be out of the spotlight while he gets his career back together. Don't be upset when Greg Oden chooses to play elsewhere.
