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I'm ing proud of Lamar...we ed Dallas....Big time....and I'm happy about that....Lamar not gonna help those bas s against the LA Machine - lol
I'm ing proud of Lamar...we ed Dallas....Big time....and I'm happy about that....Lamar not gonna help those bas s against the LA Machine - lol
Would make a great episode, I have not watched a single one tbh ...but might watch just to see how they "spin it" ...
Lamar will get booed mercilessly anytime he goes to the AAC ...
[[[Odom admitted he didn't train or work on his game. He contemplated not even playing this season. The Lakers surely knew this about last season's Sixth Man of the Year. Should the Mavs have looked deeper before pulling the trigger?
Maybe. But that's in the past]]]
tee, hee. Ain't that rich. Can one imagine if he'd a went from Texas to California? It wouldn't be in the past the same morning. Uh, uh.
What a sad little puss.
What an idiotic ing post...even for you. Not once have they "relied" on Odom.
Odumb is as Odumb does.
I can see this got going to the Clippers next season. Or back to Miami since his fat wife has had her show featured there before
Another Laker welching. Nothing to see here, butat Jalen R
Be real, dude's a got. No way he's ing that cow he's married to.
Last time i checked, the Mavs ed the Lakers in the PO...
With Lamar playing 6th man of the year level ball. I don't see how they ed Dallas with that deal.
Speaking of idiots... from ESPN Dallas:
Dallas certainly tried to make it work. The club continually opted for positive reinforcement, it tried to pump up his career-low statistics and pointed to the team's 0-7 mark without Odom as a reason to keep him on board, if only to provide minute relief for Dirk Nowitzki. But the situation was going the wrong way.
and
The Mavs badly wanted it to work, and that's why they kept him around. At 6-foot-10 and believed to be as versatile as any forward in the game, the team kept hope that Odom's effort level would e and he could provide a spark, especially in the postseason.
and
From Cuban on down, the Mavs kept hoping that would change, wishing that a man with a dozen-year track record of being a good NBA player could actually muster enough pride to play hard for the defending NBA champions. They kept on coddling until they finally came to the obvious conclusion that they couldn't count on Odom while fighting for their playoff lives.
For the record I never said they relied on him ... my point was the Lakers were able to succeed because the Lakers never really had to. I was trying to point out when Lamar was successful. Rely is subjective. According to the excerpts I pulled the Mavs were HOPING to RELY on Odom for a quality back-up to Dirk. The Lakers used Odom more like a swiss army knife (similar to a bench version of Marion) and he thrived.
If you did not understand my post you could of asked questions, instead of showing how "intelligent" you are with name calling. You can respond to this or not doesnt matter I wont waste the time arguing with you anyway. But I know ball ... apparently you know how to cuss and namecall ...way to show your intellectual superiority ... genius!!
I'm getting funny looks from those sitting around me because I just chuckled at that you bas .
Well played.
I wonder how grown ups look at you when you're watching a naruto episode in the break room at work.
You imply (or explicitly state) a lot of bull .
DAL never relied on Odom.
DAL didn't throw all their struggles on Odom.
thats revolting, but true, tbh
The price for nachos just got cut in half, just ask the accountants here: supply/demand
So have pickled pig fingers
Hey Mavs>Spurs I bet you have pretty booty hole
lamar go retire buddy
ain't no big deal imho its not like dallas had lost anything valuable for him. dude has 2 rings he won with them lakers and son of a cuban hopes his experience could help his team, but turned out another breath
VC was a wicked signing though dude has no ring and he's been the only guy on mavs squad who still shows kind of ambition to win something, i think the mavs shoulda signed someone else who didn't have a ring rather than another made ex-laker who had rang twice imho
Clippers?? He can't play for the Lakers this season
Odom Ending in Dallas After Exchange With Cuban
DALLAS (AP) — Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban had noticed Lamar Odom's uninspired play numerous times before, and kept hoping things would change.
It took one reply by Odom during a heated halftime exchange in his last game, when Cuban questioned the player's commitment to the team and Odom told him to quit playing games, to realize it was time for the two sides to part ways.
"Just his response to it. Everybody goes through ups and downs. Every player does. We tried to put him in a position to succeed. ... It didn't work," Cuban said Tuesday night, his first public comments since the team confirmed a day earlier that Odom was done in Dallas.
Their halftime exchange came after Odom played an uninspired four minutes Saturday night at Memphis.
"I just asked him, does he want to go for it or not. Is he in or is he out? I think he thought we were playing poker. I just didn't get a commitment. And that was the end," Cuban said. "This was a big game for us, and he wasn't connecting to that. And if you're not positive energy, you're negative energy."
When asked if that was the first time he noticed Odom having such a demeanor, Cuban responded, "No, but the first 17 times, I decided to try to help him and turn it into a positive."
That never happened.
Odom's averages of 6.6 points, 4.2 rebounds and 20.5 minutes in his underwhelming 50-game stint in Dallas were career lows. He was also often late for team activities such as practices and meetings.
The Mavericks didn't release him and instead said Odom would be listed inactive for their remaining nine games. That started with Tuesday night's game against Sacramento.
"He didn't want to play. He decided to go elsewhere or do something else. Now we regroup and go forward," Cuban said. "We kept on hoping things would turn out right. It just got to the point where there weren't enough games in the season to try to find out."
The defending NBA champion Mavericks were only one game ahead of ninth place in the Western Conference standings going into the game against the Kings.
Dallas acquired the NBA's reigning Sixth Man of the Year from the Los Angeles Lakers just before the lockout-shortened season. It was a low-risk deal for the Mavericks, who gave up a first-round pick and the trade exception from a deal that sent Tyson Chandler to the New York Knicks.
The Lakers seemed compelled to move the 6-foot-10 forward, who made $8.9 million this season, after trying to send him to New Orleans in a Chris Paul deal that was nixed by the league. There were also the personal issues for Odom, whose 24-year-old cousin was murdered last summer only days before the player was involved in a fatal car accident that killed a teen pedestrian after the car he was riding in as a passenger collided with a motorcycle.
Cuban said the Mavericks knew about Odom's fragile emotional state when they got him.
"Yeah, but we thought we could fight through it," Cuban said. "We knew that's why he was available."
Cuban insisted that he failed in trying to make the situation work, and that he didn't have to talk to anyone else to know the end had arrived.
"If I'm going to be the guy who smiles with my hand on the trophy, I've got to be the guy who takes the responsibility," Cuban said. "It was just my initiative, just paying attention. ... I was working with him, tried to get him back on the horse. When I failed, it was my job to recognize it, and deal with it."
Odom, the husband and reality TV co-star of Khloe Kardashian, still has a year left on his four-year contract. Any team that has the 13-year veteran on its roster on June 29 must give him a $2.4 million buyout or be responsible for the full $8.2 million he would be due in 2012-13.
"The way his contract is structured, it will hopefully create some opportunities for us," Cuban said, acknowledging he thinks Odom is tradeable. "Absolutely. It's in his best interests to get his act together, and I'm sure he will. Lamar is still a talented basketball player. He just went through some issues this year. We thought we could work through them with him this year and we weren't able to. Next."
Boy, LA might be able to get a rotation player out of that pick currently at #18. Gotta give Kupchack some major props for that move that everyone shat on at the time. I mean look at what the Spurs got at #15 with Leonard, and this year is a way stronger draft. They could get a pretty good PG prospect like Marshall, Teague, or Wroten or some instant offense off the bench in Rivers.
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