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drama-queen
Lamar Odom is gonna sign him Miami.
Spurs related how? Lakers are weakened.
drama-queen
Uhhh, that rumors been out of the bag for a little while now.
Does your little "birdie" wear a band aid under his eye and go "tweet"?
why though? ofcousre, im not rooting for him to stay in LA but it just makes no sense to me.
Because Miami has to put some talent around D-Wade, or they're going to lose him. He's made that very clear, and I can't say that I totally blame him. Losing Wade would be an utter freaking disaster for them. They don't really have a choice about spending to get some players in place. Odom is one of the better players left. They're going to throw money at him, and he gets to live near a beach. It's almost a no-brainer.
Sorry, my post was alittle unclear. What I meant was why would Odom leave for less money when he got offered more money from a team that just won a championship with him. Now, I know that the offer has been pulled but if they lowered the price to 6 million that would still be more than the MLE.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=4328376
Yet it's believed that Odom has indeed received offers from the Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks that -- because neither Florida nor Texas imposes state taxes -- are not as far away in value from the Lakers' presentation as it would seem.
Odom would have the ability with either the Heat or the Mavericks to sign a three-year, $19 million contract and negotiate a new deal with full Larry Bird rights in the summer of 2012 or take a five-year deal worth $34 million to bank more overall money, along with the state-tax benefits, than he could in a new three-year deal with the Lakers.
Without Odom in a Lakers jersey, health is the main obstacle between the Spurs and another Finals appearance.
Fair enough.
it's always been health. this spurs team can match up with any other championship contender. lakers keeping odom makes no difference as long as the spurs stay healthy.
Miami...beach, babes, and no Bryant.
What's not to like for Lamar?
True, yet without Odom LA is a second tier team. They may enjoy a fool's gold regular season run with Kobe playing at a high level, but it won't matter come playoff time.
And they're the only team, with Odom, talented enough to outplay us matchup for matchup.
allways thougth LA has a beach and babes too?
stupid me!
(and for 3 more millions a year, I would even play with that mentioned Kobe-guy)
Bynum
Gasol
Artest
Kobe
...+ whatever...
thats not second tier!!! (to me second tier doesn't mean, that the team is the second or third best in the league)
even though I have to admit, that I would fav us in a 7 game series (which I'm not doing with Odom on board)
Sorry - misunderstood. But MIB's answer is dead on. The net values of the two deals are not that far apart. Before that, I think Odom (and his agent) really believed that he was going to get $10M a year from someone. I'm not really sure who they thought that would be, but they seemed convinced.
You also have to wonder of there's any truth to the stories that he'd just as soon not play with Kobe. Or maybe he felt like Artest would be cutting into his minutes? Whatever the reason, I never got the feeling that he was looking for a way to stay in L.A.
Artest and especially Bynum are overrated. Bynum averaged a paltry 6/4 these playoffs. Artest choked throughout the last half of the Rockets series with LA. His defense against big players doesn't matter much, as we have no perimeter player whose size is even comparable to a Pierce or LeBron.
When Artest is on his meds, he is a complete badass. You can talk all you want about the baggage he brings, but he got game. Don't even pretend like he doesn't. I think he's a distraction to his team, but damnation he can play ball.
Will need Bynum to really pick it up and perform in the playoffs. Will need bench players who were not good last year - Walton, Vujacic - to turn it around. Need no extended time missed for any reason.
I'm not going to say who is weak no matter what
What makes you think LA will be done getting players? Or they can't work out a sign and trade deal?
I don't put anything past LA doing what it takes to upgrade their talent until the offseason is over.
Agree Artest is strong on both ends of the court.
Without Odom the Lakers 2nd unit isn't very impressive and that means big minutes for the starters....
PG- Farmar/Brown
SG- Sasha/ Sun Yue
SF-???????? Morrison?
PF= Luke Walton/Powell
C- Mbenga/Powell
Yea we all know the offers the two teams can make. I mean i just don't see it happening. Odom wanted to push for more but no one can come up with more than what the heat can show and it looks like heat are also lookin at booz, and the blazers are lookin at millsap. IDK, just not buying it. I'd still be surprised to see odom leave. If he does that's just great. The lakes bench is complete if he goes. And unlike what someone said, they really can't do anything else significant. They are already over the cap, used mle on artest, whoever they would bring in would be someone left of the cheaper end FA's which is no one near odoms level. I hope he bolts but just doesn't make sense salary wise. If he does though any laker fan who says they would rather have artest over ariza plus odom is lying to themselves. Odom would be a huge loss whether lakes fans want to admit it or not. And I do agree with another poster, if he leaves, all that stands in the way of the spurs finals appearence next year is injuries and maybe a mavs team that clicks Very very very well, ha, chances are that won't happen. We will see how it plays out, just don't want yall do get hopes up he'll leave cuz numbers just aren't making sense to me why he would.
Is this the same little birdie that fed you all that speculation that Ginobili had a 'phantom' injury last season?
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