Lamar Odom quits the NBA Dallas Mavericks before season ends Continue reading o

[Dikteta Dax]

lol, lamar is a sucka!  good thing the lakers got rid of him

Earlier this year Lamar Odom was traded from the LA Lakers to the Dallas Mavericks. Things have not been going great for him since he started there and now word is he quit the team. Are you shocked by this Oklahoma City fans?

According to Hollywood Life, Lamar has now quit the Dallas Mavericks. This means that the star of "Khloe & Lamar" will not be playing in the NBA at all for the rest of the season. He will be listed as inactive for the rest of the season. Lamar and wife Khloe Kardashian should be moving back to LA which is really home for the couple.

Here is what Lamar Odom had to say:

“I’m sorry that things didn’t work out better for both of us, but I wish the Mavs’ organization, my teammates and Dallas fans nothing but continued success in the defense of their championship.”

Lamar says that he is stepping down from the team, but fans have to wonder what this really means. Did they tell him to do it or was it his choice? Will we get to see what really happened on a future episode of "Khloe & Lamar"? Are you shocked he left? Sound off in the comments section below.

"Khloe & Lamar" is now airing new episodes on Sundays in the Oklahoma City area on E! at 9 p.m. CST each week.

[OG Jaydc]

What a whiny bitch.

[Remedy360]

What a great call by the Lakers organization. I was critical at first, but damn.

[Dikteta Dax]

What a great call by the Lakers organization. I was critical at first, but damn.

Yeah I felt the same way but it looks like they knew what they were doing...

[The_Ripper]

Metta World Peace Wants Lamar Odom to Come Back to Los Angeles and Be a Lakers Ball Boy

Now that the Dallas Mavericks have separated from Lamar Odom, the forward has some time on his hands.

And who better to help him fill the time than former teammate and boyhood chum, Metta World Peace.

"Maybe he can come back and be a ball boy and then next year, come play," World Peace told Dave McMenamin of ESPNLA.com of his plan to get Odom back in L.A. "...He'd be the first ball boy in the NBA that can play. Come back; get the towels and next year, play. Why not? He should be a scout. Lamar should be a scout."

Maybe not an NBA scout.

"Lamar should just like for one month, just be a boy scout and wear the outfit," the Lakers forward said. "Just have fun. You're getting paid."

Or...

"What's the biggest mountain in the world?" "...He should go hike it. Do something that's never been done."

[The_Ripper]

Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, saying he hopes Lamar Odom's departure is "addition by subtraction," confirmed that a heated halftime confrontation between the owner and 13-year veteran was the breaking point that prompted the team and player to part ways.

During halftime of his final game with the Mavs, Odom and Cuban had the exchange in the visitors locker room Saturday night in Memphis.

Sources told ESPNDallas.com the heated words were "the culmination" of an exasperating weekend, when Odom was tardy to the team's Friday home game against the Portland Trail Blazers and the Saturday morning meeting in Memphis. That convinced team officials to initiate discussions on Easter Sunday that led to the parties agreeing to split for the rest of the season.

Cuban confirmed Tuesday evening the crux of the heated halftime confrontation was Cuban questioning Odom's commitment. Odom, who had played only four minutes in the first half, reacted angrily to the question, shouting "stop playing games" several times. Odom did not take his seat on the bench until after the third quarter began.

"Well, yeah," Cuban said when asked whether that exchange was the final straw. "Just his response to it. Everybody goes through ups and downs. Every player does. We tried to put him in a position to succeed. You guys saw it, saw what we did. It didn't work.

"And 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."

This was not the first time that Cuban had confronted Odom during a game. During a March 6 win over the New York Knicks, Cuban shouted at Odom from the owner's seat near the Mavs bench after the forward's failure to hustle back on defense resulted in an uncontested layup for New York's Landry Fields. Cuban and Odom both downplayed that incident at the time, with Cuban pointing out that he's a passionate fan who frequently yells at players.

Cuban admitted Tuesday that Odom's lack of commitment, which manifested itself in a lack of effort on the floor and habitual tardiness to team meetings, practices and shootarounds despite living across the street from the American Airlines Center, had been an issue all season.

Cuban said he tried to turn the situation into a positive "the first 17 times," but, with the defending NBA champions fighting for a playoff berth, the organization finally lost patience with Odom.

 "We hope it's addition by subtraction," Cuban said. "Just put him in the Tariq Abdul-Wahad category and move on."

Abdul-Wahad, a name uttered with disdain in the Dallas front office, played a total of 18 games for the Mavericks after being acquired in a blockbuster trade from the Denver Nuggets in 2002. Abdul-Wahad was banished from the team, but he remained on the Mavs' payroll for five seasons.

Cuban had been among Odom's staunchest supporters all season, spending two days meeting with Odom and agent Jeff Schwartz while the Mavs were on the road in the midst of a nine-game, 12-day stretch at the end of the veteran's 10-day midseason personal leave.

Cuban, saying "every home run hitter strikes out every now and then," acknowledged that the trade that brought Odom to Dallas in December was a bad swing and a miss.

Schwartz orchestrated the trade after the Los Angeles Lakers attempted to include Odom in the David Stern-vetoed deal that would have paired Chris Paul in a backcourt with Kobe Bryant. The Mavs sent a protected first-round pick and a trade exception -- acquired from the Knicks in the Tyson Chandler sign-and-trade deal -- for the reigning NBA Sixth Man of the Year.

Odom never meshed with the Mavs. He revealed early in the season that he considered taking a hiatus from basketball after a traumatic offseason that included the deaths of his cousin and a teenage pedestrian involved in an accident when Odom was a passenger in an SUV.

Cuban said he knew of Odom's emotional baggage before trading for him, understanding that was one reason why the Lakers made him available.

"My job is to look at every player, employee, whatever and just treat them individually and put them in a position to succeed," Cuban said. "I've failed miserably on this one. It's not the first time and won't be the last time. Move on to the next."

Odom averaged career lows in points (6.6), rebounds (4.2), assists (1.7), shooting percentage (35.2) and minutes (20.5) during his abbreviated season with the Mavericks. Odom's poor effort and production led Mavs president of basketball operations Donnie Nelson to liken relying on him with the season on the line to "going to war with wet gunpowder."

As poorly as Odom performed, the Mavs were 0-7 when he has not played this season before Tuesday's home win over the Sacramento Kings.

"It's just time to turn the page," said coach Rick Carlisle, who has otherwise declined to discuss Odom since Saturday night's loss.

The Mavs still owe Odom the remainder of his $8.9 million salary this season. The Mavericks intend to simply list him as inactive for the rest of the season.

Any team that has Odom on its roster as of June 29 must buy him out by that date for $2.4 million or otherwise accept responsibility for the full $8.2 million that Odom is scheduled to earn in 2012-13.

"Did I get my money's worth? No," Cuban said. "I don't know that the word's 'cheated.' But did I get my money's worth? No."

[Hack Wilson - real]

nobody gives a fuck about your articles alone o

[The_Ripper]

nobody gives a fuck about your articles alone o

like nobody gives a fuck if you die tomorrow 

[Hack Wilson - real]

nobody gives a fuck about your articles alone o

like nobody gives a fuck if you die tomorrow 

except for my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, childhood friends and my coworkers

[The_Ripper]

nobody gives a fuck about your articles alone o

like nobody gives a fuck if you die tomorrow 

except for my parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles, childhood friends and my coworkers

no, your parents are praying for your death

[Hack Wilson - real]

oh okay 

[LooN3y]

What a great call by the Lakers organization. I was critical at first, but damn.

Yeah I felt the same way but it looks like they knew what they were doing...

to say hes done after coming off the best season of his career is faulty. if the lakers FO had calmed down odom and had he stayed im sure he would of been productive.


it was odoms reps (agents) that asked for him to be traded etc etc for the benefit of odoms finances (to get money or to hold some value in him) but that was a mistake, odom was not happy in dallas, and he did not want to play for the team. yea he wasnt productive because he aboslutely did not want to be there, he didnt buy into the system. all he was doing was camping at the 3 point line vujacic style. odom needs to be running the offense to be most effective.


with that said odom > mcroberts/Murphy and i know no one can disagree on that.

a bench of

C :some solid center
PF: Odom
SF: Barnes
SG:Glock
PG: Blake



that right there is a solid line up, this year makes me miss shannon brown even though he thought he was kobe chucking contested 3s vujacic style. shit even sasha would be nice. better than steve blake. i how i hope farmar had stayed instead of enduring blakes blunder of a performance this past 2 seasons.

farmar's dumbass did the same thing as ariza, went some where to get more money/starting position. and ended up not getting anything.

im dwelling, but hey a nigga can dwell.



but for next year, im content with keeping glock and molding him to be our back up 2 (shannon was a small SG and we did fine so i have no problem with that (on defense)) or have him play combo guard at the point, have barnes as the back SG and find a serviceable SF that can score. honestly i dont know what we can do with the back up front court, but im sure we'll find someone, were the lakers everybody wants to play here.

trust dwight wants to play in LA, just probably not behind pau and being the 3rd option (which is well known)

[Dikteta Dax]

Odoms numbers aren't much better then Murphy or McRoberts this year.  Currently I would take both of them over a cry baby pouting millionaire odom who cried about almost getting traded.  He acts like the NBA isn't a business and he hasn't been traded before.  He should of sucked it up and not demanded a trade out of LA.  What if odom would of been the cancer he was to la that he was for dallas this season?  Also if we would of kept odom we wouldn't have got Sessions who gives us a slim chance at winning the entire thing.

[Sccit]

Odoms numbers aren't much better then Murphy or McRoberts this year.  Currently I would take both of them over a cry baby pouting millionaire odom who cried about almost getting traded.  He acts like the NBA isn't a business and he hasn't been traded before.  He should of sucked it up and not demanded a trade out of LA.  What if odom would of been the cancer he was to la that he was for dallas this season?  Also if we would of kept odom we wouldn't have got Sessions who gives us a slim chance at winning the entire thing.

on point