He doesn't fit with the Mavs, as much as he did with the Lakers. He needs to be one a team that has a strong center or power forward that he can compliment.
http://espn.go.com/dallas/nba/story/_/id/7622264/no-timetable-lamar-odom-return-dallas-mavericks Sam Amick @sam_amick [rquoter]So per @ESPN_Caplan, Lamar Odom hasn't rejoined Mavericks yet while tending to sick father in LA. Some folks wondering about possible buyout. He's owed $8.9 million this year (pro-rated, 66 gms), $2 million buyout for next season. But source tells me buyout isn't going to happen. There's no timetable for Odom's return, says Mavs coach Rick Carlisle, & no indication Odom even wants buyout. Tough stuff on family front.[/rquoter] Brian Cuban @bcuban [rQUOTEr]Don't think it will happen but it also would not shock me if Lamar Odom announced he was done for the year . . . . @cinderelisha: @bcuban Odom's game is off, he is not getting play time @bcuban: @cinderelisha he' not getting playing time because he's playing like **** when he's in.. pretty simple[/rquoter]
Odom angling for a buyout? Hasn't reported back after missing a game to be with his "gravely ill" dad in LA....who told TMZ that he was fine and just had a stomach bug. Now hearing that he wants the Mavs to buy him out so he can rejoin the Lakers or Clips... Poor Kardashian.
Derek Fisher giving him ideas? If I were Mavs owner or GM, no way I'd buy him out and make my nearest competitors better. Would shelf him for the year or trade him.
Odom's dad has stomach virus and he left the team to attend to that? lol http://www.tmz.com/2012/02/24/lamar-odom-sick-father-video/#.T02OOfGPWTm
Its really becuz he and dirk are repetitive in skillset. What works with a guy like odom is he can come in and play the 4. When he does that,it allow your big forward to slide down. In dallas,dirk can't really do that like gasol could. Dirk is your best player and so he will play the biggest minutes at the 4. I would let him play more 3 again like he did coming into the league in certain matchups.
If this is true, Odom isn't going back to Dallas. He's done for the year and the Mavs won't reward him with a buyout.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Lamar Odom latest: Sources tell ESPN that Odom likely to play one game (Saturday) for Mavs' D-League affiliate to "get his legs back"</p>— Marc Stein (@ESPNSteinLine) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNSteinLine/status/175352041852518400" data-datetime="2012-03-01T22:49:19+00:00">March 1, 2012</a></blockquote> <script src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
so was ariza they got odom for nothing because people who actually know basketball know he isn't worth that much. he isn't that good of a player as people think he is, people need to lower their expectations.
Odom had serious value. He was the only piece the Hornets would have gotten from the Lakers in the Pau Gasol "trade." If they didn't want Odom, the Rockets could have traded for CP3 straight up. (and then gotten more screwed by Stern)
I heard some word that the Mavs might be looking at an Odom/Roddy B for Nash trade. I'm not high on that since I'm a Roddy B fan and I think Nash truly has no more than two more decent seasons at best.
This. Hes wildly inconsistent. Essentially hasn't changed much since a rookie, makes a lot of dumb mistakes, checks out of game easily when faced with adversity...funnny thats how he approaches everything outside basketball too when the going gets tough he just tries to shut down
So they're gonna send him to the D-League to get himself in shape LMAO. Thats horrible, hes fallen off that bad
he has value he just doesn't like being in Dallas Chicago, LA, NY, Miami would have him playing hard. not talking the teams but the cities. he's a p***y with priorities ass backwards
Without Kobe he has no motivation. Going from the bright lights of LA to...Dallas, has well, dampened his spirit. But he gets paid something something million dollars a year, who is he to sulk?
