Odom in a shell game
July 16, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under Los Angeles Lakers, NBA Basketball
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
It just went from bad to worse as Lamar Odom goes from finding out the NBA is a little tight on money this year to finding out that the NBA has money, but won’t give it to him. Or maybe you should say he won’t take the money. The Los Angeles Lakers offered Lamar Odom a very reasonable 30 million dollars for 3 years or an even more reasonable 36 million for 4 years and what did Lamar do, but turn it down.
Then it got ugly.
In addition, Buss is believed to be miffed that Odom’s agent has started negotiations with the Dallas Mavericks and the Miami Heat, neither of whom can offer the versatile forward more than the mid-level exception ($5.8 million for next season).
Dallas owner Mark Cuban told a reporter from NBA-TV that he spoke with agent Jeff Schwartz on Monday. There also have been persistent rumors that the Heat is interested in Odom. The Heat dealt Odom to the Lakers in 2004.
All that money and the chance to play with Kobe and Lamar turns it down.
The Lakers took that as a slap in the face and pulled the deals off the table. Do they want Lamar? Yes. Can Dallas or Miami lure him away? No. Sounds like a shell game to me.
Photo source Newscom
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