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so this is it ?
http://www.faniq.com/article/Lamar-O...Lakers-1746454Respected blogger and CEO of BlackSportsOnline Robert Littal has posted a breaking news story that Lamar Odom will re-sign with the Lakers for 4 yeas and a cool $40 million.
"The change of heart came after Lamar reached out to Dr. Jerry Buss. The two of them had a close door meeting in Las Vegas yesterday where they were able to reach an agreement."
so this is it ?
I'll believe it when I see it.
Why do people keep posting stuff from these BS sources? When AW over at Yahoo reports it I will believe it.
I hope he re-signs, I want them to lose at full strength, that would be a great regular season team but the playoffs are totally different. Boston and San Antonio if healthy can take them down in the playoffs.
premature eja mulation forum
here is another gem from robert littal and his blacksportsonline blog. you know he has to be real when he calls himself bonafide and respected.
FREE MICHAEL VICK!!!!!
By BonaFide Sports Expert Robert Littalon July 20, 2009 12:52 PM | Permalink | Comments (10) | TrackBacks (0)
No suspension. No punishment. No banishment. Nothing should happen to Michael Vick now that he has finished his nineteen month sentence for financing a dog fighting ring.
It is over. No matter what PETA says, no matter what ESPN says & no matter what you think. It is over.
Is Dog fighting wrong? Absolutely.
Did Michael Vick deserve nineteen months in jail for it? Absolutely not.
healthy Lakers > healthy Spurs
healthy Lakers > healthy Boston
Good news for Laker fans if this proves to be true. But as others have stated, it's not necessarily a surprise or not expected that he would re-sign with the Lakers especially if the money is the same. It didn't make sense to go to Miami plus the opportunity to win a championship.
So now perhaps some of the Laker fandom can take a deep breath and relax. Enjoy your reign as champions and not be so obsessed with bashing the spurs or lakerhaters!
Last edited by mytespurs; 07-22-2009 at 05:04 PM.
The white man still looked both ways (at least twice) before sidin' the dogs in this case.
tee hee.
Like others have said, I'm waiting for Yahoo or ESPN to report this until I believe it. The guy who wrote the article said in the comments he expects it to be announced tonight or tom. morning, for whatever that's worth. I hope this dude's source isn't bull ting.
Lol Jerry Buss, Odom and his manager made him their .Respected blogger and CEO of BlackSportsOnline Robert Littal has posted a breaking news story that Lamar Odom will re-sign with the Lakers for 4 yeas and a cool $40 million.
"The change of heart came after Lamar reached out to Dr. Jerry Buss. The two of them had a close door meeting in Las Vegas yesterday where they were able to reach an agreement."
LOL, if the Lakers don't repeat they're in major trouble.
Odom hears pleas from around the world
July 22nd, 2009
by Janis Carr, OC Register
Lamar Odom is getting it from all sides.
His Lakers teammates have tweeted, emailed and texted him with pleas to come back. On Tuesday, Derek Fisher and Kobe Bryant both publicly urged Odom to re-sign — Fisher from Los Angeles and Kobe from Singapore.
“We want him back badly, and I hope we can accomplish that in the next couple days,” said Fisher, his eyes darting from the cameramen to reporters, who crowded around him at L.A. Live. The veteran guard seemed eager to get his point across, as if talking directly to Odom and not me.
Because on the other side of the country, Dwyane Wade was applying the Heat.
“I know he’s got a tough decision to make with L.A., but our door is open,” Wade said in Miami.
“Lamar is on his own time, his own schedule. And I don’t think [anyone] knows when he’s going to make a decision. That’s L.O. We know that in Miami. At the end of the day, we want him to make a decision that is best for his family.”
Wade said Carlos Boozer would be a great additon (”he’s what you want” in a power forward”) but kept his eyes on the bigger prize — Odom.
“Lamar right now is our big focus. We want to make sure we get Lamar and then go from there.”
Wade then turned up the pressure.
“Come home! Come back!”
Brilliant.
It's true. They'll have no room to maneuver with lots of money tied up in the front line.
Stop trying to make sense of Odom saga
The Lakers and Lamar Odom remain locked in an unsteady and mystifying place in contract talks. There is nothing easy about this, but there is something very apropos.
Jeff Miller
The Orange County Register
Nothing is ever as easy as it looks, particularly when it appears to be a layup so wide open even Courtney Lee couldn't miss.
So it was this week when, upon returning from vacation, we learned Lamar Odom remains a Laker, but still only by default.
The candy man can't, evidently, swallow the idea of signing here for three or four years when a potential fifth guaranteed season could be awaiting him in Miami. At least that's one theory.
If true, imagine living in a world where, after making nearly $70 million over a six-year period, you're still concerned about long-term security. Seems a little bit much, doesn't it? Unless, of course, Odom plans on living to be 754.
These negotiations rarely are simple. There are egos involved and agents and a perspective unfamiliar to those of us who live on planet Earth. Theirs is a universe where disrespect somehow can be spelled with seven zeroes.
Why not just sign, Lamar, right? Why become a bald diva when the Lakers have offered as much as $36 million and four more championship chances?
Sorry, but it can't be that easy, otherwise Odom would have signed already and we'd be writing about some other mystifying aspect of sports, like the continued existence of the Washington Nationals.
It can be very disconnecting, watching from afar an apparent black-and-white world that actually is colored in every shade of green and gray. So don't even attempt to wrap what's left of your 401(k) around these proceedings.
It is difficult to apply real-world logic to the NBA, where the finances are so cartoonish that the $100 bill should feature a picture of Homer Simpson. In this warped world, the services of Marko Jaric are valued at $14.7 million for the next two seasons.
The Lakers threw at least $9 million a year at Odom, representing a significant pay cut but also a hefty salary for a non-starter.
For the record, the players making more than $9 million next season include Erick Dampier, Cuttino Mobley and Mike Dunleavy.
And Quentin Richardson. Since his last game, Richardson has been traded three times, passing around the NBA like a flu bug.
He has been property of the Knicks, Grizzlies, Clippers and Timberwolves, each of whom missed the playoffs last season but, based on their dealing of or for Richardson, now clearly has a definite direction in mind … or maybe not.
Odom's case has become something of a soap opera, playing out in the land — or should it be an iLand? — of Twitter and text messaging. And we all know everything in cyberspace is legitimate.
Let's see if we have things up-to-date. Kobe Bryant has called Odom and Dwyane Wade has called Odom and Ron Artest has called Odom and Odom has called Jerry Buss, and remember when the Lakers were famous for not speaking to each other?
During the same time, everybody has called Odom's agent, Jeff Schwartz, some kind of bad name. We have to be honest; we thought Jeff Schwartz was the new coach of the Detroit Lions.
Turns out that guy is Jim Schwartz, which is a difficult name for us to say without smiling. Like most coaches, he's a glorified physical education teacher, meaning the obvious nickname for Jim Schwartz is Gym Shorts.
Hey, two weeks of vacation allows the mind to travel to a lot of different places, some of them quite bizarre and not always funny.
Anyway, back in the unreal world, Shaquille O'Neal has a television project ongoing called "Shaq Vs.," a show in which he will compete against, among others, Ben Roethlisberger, Michael Phelps and Serena Williams in their respective sports.
O'Neal told USA Today that he came up with the idea as a way to work out for the upcoming season.
Keep in mind that O'Neal drove everyone crazy in L.A. because of his questionable offseason training. And now he's going to prepare for the NBA by playing beach volleyball against Kerri Walsh.
Meanwhile, Bryant has maintained that Odom will re-sign with the Lakers, that both sides need each other and ultimately things will work out.
On Tuesday, he also told The Associated Press he does not believe the gasping U.S. economy will affect NBA attendance next season.
He said this in the Philippines moments before — according to a report — removing his shoes, autographing them and handing them to strangers, at least one of whom had shouted her feelings about Bryant in the form of "I love you!"
And who says we can't relate to these guys?
Since the end of the season, 53 players have been traded and 26 free agents have signed or re-signed.
Odom's number will come up soon. Until then, enjoy the uneven journey and shifting mood swings, which, come to think of it, are what we're used to getting from Lamar Odom anyway.
One day I hope the Suns are in this position.
They'll have more room to maneuver than the Spurs. Lmao at RJ making 14m next year
The Lakers front line is full of tradeable assets to go along with a 7m expiring contract + some trade exceptions.
Meanwhile, the Spurs bigs are either over the hill, have no ACLs or would rather choose to suck mul udes of instead of getting married to a female.
If Odom was going to sign with the heat, he would have done it by now.
i will only believe it when hoopsworld will report it
my thoughts exactly
you're right. I still believe he's going to be a Laker. I cannot see the Lakers losing both Lamar and Ariza.
ever since TMZ got michael jackson's death right and they were the first to report, every single site and blogger wants to be the first.
and apparently the same applies to threads in this forum as well.
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