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Odom will settle for less and stay with the Lakers. The only teams that could offer him the money he wants aren't interested in him.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4328376
... two big pieces of the Lakers' championship team likely won't be. The team has pulled its offer to forward Lamar Odom, the Los Angeles Times reported on Tuesday night.
Citing a team official who was not authorized to comment publicly on the negotiations, the newspaper reported that owner Jerry Buss was upset that Odom and his representatives had not responded to the team's offer of three years at $9 million per season.
Odom and his agent Jeff Schwartz have reportedly been seeking a five-year deal at $10 million per season. The newspaper reported that Odom has been in negotiations with the Mavericks and Heat, two teams that can only offer their mid-level exceptions of $5.8 million per season for a maximum of five years. Bryant chose to not opt out of his contract this offseason and will likely receive a long-term extension. Key reserve Trevor Ariza bolted the Lakers for the Rockets, however. The Lakers responded by signing former Rocket Ron Artest.
Odom, 29, was expected to take a pay cut from his $14.1 million salary of last season. He has averaged 15.1 points, 8.8 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game for his career, but he set career lows in scoring (11.3) and assists (2.6) last season. He did average 12.3 points and 9.1 rebounds in the playoffs to help the Lakers to their 15th championship.
Last edited by spectator; 07-15-2009 at 12:32 AM.
Odom will settle for less and stay with the Lakers. The only teams that could offer him the money he wants aren't interested in him.
Our chances of winning the le depends if we stay healthy and well rested.
Not what the lakers do in the off season..
Regardless of what the Lakers had done or will do, the Spurs le chances had already increased with the addition of McD and Jeff.
i would love the east to get stronger and let them tear each other apart in the playoffs
go back to heat odom!
i agree that the most important factor for the spurs is health; however, one has to agree that our chances are better if compe ive teams cannot sign their FAs (especially one as valuable as LO); i am not saying we cannot win vs LAL if LO does end up signing with them, but our odds have just improved
Odom will re-sign with the Lakers. Why wouldn't he? Buss just called his bluff.
Of course our odds would improve, we would easily be the favorites IMO, if health permits..also depending on LA's replacement for Odom..
if they can't replace him with anybody good..have you guys seen how bad their bench is?..
Odom will 99% re-sign with LA btw, he has no other choice..
exactly. i'd rather Odom returned to the Lakers, so we can beat them down and get revenge. but if he's gone, our chances of winning go up. unless they sign another big who's as good or better. who's available?
C'mon Utah, match on Millsap and free up Portland to offer him 8mil.
Sounds to me like both sides are pissed at each other, and Odom might jump if he gets a decent offer from Portand.
So he is fighting over a measily 3 million?Or is it the number of years he is mad with? I don't get why he is negotiating with teams that can't even sign him for what he wants unless they do a sign-and-trade which Buss probably wouldn't do.
Yep: and not only that, but Odom is MATCH-UP NIGHTMARE for most teams, maybe especially the Spurs.
If LO doesn't resign with the Lakers (which isn't official until he signs with another team), then the Lakers take a huge hit.
If both teams are healthy in the post season, then the Spurs may well be the favorites to beat Lakers minus Odom.
Cant the Spurs get a trade exemption from a team for Bonner and Finley...... And if so cant they use that.... Those two contracts plus the LLE would equal around 8.2 million.... Just a thought.....
Odom can play the three and four
Starting five would be
Parker / Jefferson / Odom / Duncan / McDyess
Second Group
Hill / Mason / Ginobili / Blair / Mahimni
if lamar ends up on another team, i am just wondering who is coming off from the bench at 4 and 5 for the lakers; with most valuable FAs signed to other teams, their only option would be a sign and trade, but who will they trade?
The lakers and Odom are pissed at each other right now, but they need each other too much to part ways. There's a bunch of posturing going on, and since it's the lakers it will all play out in nationally televised soap opera fashion. But when it's all said and done Odom will re-sign with the lakers.
it's good business by the Lakers..I would do the same thing..
Odom seems like a good dude though, which is obvious, since most of us from New Yiddy are(most, not all of course..see: Ron Artest)..he doesn't belong on a team like the Lakers..
sure, but risky as well. boozer is not in utah's plans anymore (http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4327927) and millsap's offer will most likely be matched. that leaves portland able to offer odom enough to satisfy his demands.
Very funny
chances
Portland doesn't make any sense though, that's the thing..the ONLY reason they would offer Odom big $ is just to with the Lakers, which is possible due to Pritchard's style, but I doubt they would with their team like that..
Odom can't play SF, so they'd either have to have plans to play him huge minutes off the bench, or they have plans to trade Pryzbilla..
I'm guessing he wants to take a one year contract (or multi-year with player options) so he can opt out next summer in the big-money 2010 bonanza.
This really, really hurts the Lakers. They were already hurting. There's a lot of smoke and mirrors to this team, and they are weak champions. Their starting crew is solid to extremely good, but their bench is miserable... in 2008 their bench players were better, but they were able to cover it last year.
Fisher is very close to starting to break down. He's already slow.
Without Odom you have very shaky players off the bench. This will increase wear and tear all year.
You keep saying this but he plays SF quite a bit.
You're right....
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