two completely opposite reports are the latest we've heard concerning LO:
http://blacksportsonline.com/index/2009 ... to-re.html
Once again sources close to Lamar Odom are insisting a deal is done and is just waiting for Dr. Buss to sign off on it.
There has been reports there is no deal on the table and there are no neogiations ongoing.
But there was in fact a 3 year deal worth 30 million that was turned down Odom recently.
The only hold up is will Dr. Buss sign off on 4 year deal or will Odom accept 3 year deal.
We will have to wait and see how it all shakes out, but I would be shocked if Lamar Odom is does not resign with the Lakers.
http://stevemasonsmog.typepad.com/john_ ... -odom.html
he best offer the Lakers had previously offered was Odom was for four years, $36 million. But the fourth year was a team option, that the Lakers had to either exercise, or buy Lamar out for $3 million. That means Odom turned down a guaranteed three year, $30 million contract.
That offer is no longer on the table, nor is any offer from the Lakers. I'm told that if Lamar called the team today and said he would accept these terms, he would most likely be told that the offer is no longer available. Again, this is my opinion based on multiple conversations. I have not spoken directly to Mitch Kupchak or Jerry Buss. If Lamar and Dr. Buss got together over dinner, maybe that original offer could resurface, but I'm told that's highly unlikely.
By the way, the perception that Odom's agent, Jeff Schwartz, has been making this worse isn't necessarily true. I've had two different people tell me that Schwartz is a solid agent who has taken every offer seriously, and advised Lamar to do the same. I had one guy who told me, "I'm pretty sure Jeff advised him to take the deal...it's always the client's call."-I said yesterday that I thought the percentage chance of Lamar returning to the Lakers was 70%. Everybody I talked to today said my number was too high, and "it's more like 50/50." I still think it's more than that, but not much.
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. Seriously though, that Magic lineup is gonna be sick next year...