PORTLAND, OR (KPTV) -
The Portland Trail Blazers say they have signed center Greg Oden to a one-year contract, but not the qualifying offer that he had agreed upon earlier.
The team says that the often-injured 7-footer has suffered another setback with his rehabilitation. Oden missed all of last season after microfracture surgery on his right knee.
The new contract was announced Friday after the Blazers opened training camp. A day earlier, Oden's agent reported that the former No. 1 draft pick had signed an $8.9 million qualifying offer that Portland had offered Oden on June 29.
The terms of the new deal were not announced.
The nature of the setback was not disclosed by the team.
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