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Touch said:
"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."

Cuban throwing as much shade as humanly possible there. LOL @ the first 17 times, as obsessive as he is about that team, this whole saga has to grate his nerves big timw
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*~*Right, and it sounds like the tension had been building for a while.*~*
 
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labelwhore04 said:
Is Lamar gonna get picked up by another team? I'm not an expert on the bball industry but i can't see why any team would want him. He's getting old by industry standards, he's not the greatest player(even at his best) and he's proven to be extremely unprofessional and dramatic the last few months. He's earned himself a pretty bad reputation. I'd be surprised if any team would even want him at this point.
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This is just one season, he has 12 other seasons that GM will look at and even as bad as it seems right now most are chalking it up to him not being mentally prepared to played this season. He is older but technically still at his prime at 32 year old. His career average is almost a double double. He has two rings and just last year, he was the best 6th man in the league.

Lamar will get plenty of offers once he is a free agent. He likely will have to sign a one year deal that will be performance base (unless it is someone who already knows him like Pat Riley, where he would probably get the benefit of the doubt). If he performs, he will get an extension that is worthy of his abilities but if he stay in the funk that he was this year, he will be cut immediately.

Dont be fooled, Lamar had a good reputation before this year and their enough 'things' going on with him, for GMs to give him a chance.
 
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Oruka said:
This is just one season, he has 12 other seasons that GM will look at and even as bad as it seems right now most are chalking it up to him not being mentally prepared to played this season. He is older but technically still at his prime at 32 year old. His career average is almost a double double. He has two rings and just last year, he was the best 6th man in the league.

Lamar will get plenty of offers once he is a free agent. He likely will have to sign a one year deal that will be performance base (unless it is someone who already knows him like Pat Riley, where he would probably get the benefit of the doubt). If he performs, he will get an extension that is worthy of his abilities but if he stay in the funk that he was this year, he will be cut immediately.

Dont be fooled, Lamar had a good reputation before this year and their enough 'things' going on with him, for GMs to give him a chance.
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32 years old is not 'prime time' for most athletes unless they are rather obssesive about their diet/health/ exercise and we already know lam lam is anything but. He's got a maximum of 4 or 5 seasons left in the league imo
 
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Touch said:
32 years old is not 'prime time' for most athletes unless they are rather obssesive about their diet/health/ exercise and we already know lam lam is anything but. He's got a maximum of 4 or 5 seasons left in the league imo
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I think basketball players are prime usually from 27/28 to 33/34, at the age of 34/35 they tend to go down of course it depends on conditioning and luck as far as injuries.

If Lamar applies himself, he can easily play another 5-6 seasons and retire at 38 year old.
 
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GOMAVS41 said:
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Give this bish a basket!!!!!
 
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I wonder where dumbazz Lamar will go next? I be he would only accept LA teams...Lakers/Clippers or NYC teams.. Knicks/Nets or Miami Heat.

We ALL knew this wouldn't work when his trade was announced months ago.
 
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GOMAVS41 said:
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Dead!

Encore Hermes said:
Just awkward

Khloe: I’ll keep Niall Horan up all night (Niall is a member of band One Directoin and a teen )


'........Bandmate Harry Styles, 18, then told Khloe, who’s married to basketball star Lamar Odom, 32, that Niall checks out snaps of her every night.

Khloe replied: “I hope you’re not alone when you look at those photos. Have fun and I’ll send you some dirty photos.”

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag.../Khloe-Ill-keep-Niall-Horan-up-all-night.html

And thanks for the tea ladies! It was excellent!
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WTF?!

Bzemom said:
Aren't his kids in NY? Maybe he went to see them?
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Yup. Possible.

Mark Cuban dropping the ether on Lamar with that 17x comment + money's worth. :laugh:
 
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Even the Mavs beat writer that sucks up to the team + wouldn't report negative LO stuff before has joined in so i guess the gloves are all the way off. It looks like Lamar took being unprofessional to the highest level.


Mark Cuban: Lamar Odom told him to "stop playing games''

After months of saying how hopeful the organization was that Lamar Odom would turn around his season -- and maybe the Mavericks' too -- Mark Cuban's frustration level hit the breaking point Saturday in Memphis.

It was a scene the owner described in vivid detail before Tuesday's game against Sacramento, when he called the exodus of Odom "addition by subtraction.''

Cuban said he was in the visitor's locker room at halftime Saturday and asked Odom, who had played four pitiful first-quarter minutes, a simple question: "Are you in or are you out?"

"He said: 'Stop playing games,' '' Cuban said. "I said, 'I guess you're out.' If he doesn't want to play poker, we won't play poker. That's what I said.''

Asked if Odom really said "stop playing games,'' Cuban said: "That's what he said.''

It wasn't the first time Odom had seemed indifferent toward his job, the sport and his teammates, just the most aggravating -- a final straw that drove into Cuban's craw like a pitchfork. Cuban said he and everybody else simply grew tired of getting a negative vibe from Odom.

"Everybody goes through ups and downs,'' Cuban said. "Every player does. We tried to put him in a position to succeed. It didn't work. And I just asked him, 'does he want to go for it or not?' I just didn't get a commitment. And that was the end.

"You can kind of tell sometimes when a guy's not focused and ready to play. This [at Memphis] was a big game for us, and he wasn't connecting to that. And if you're not positive energy, you're negative energy.''

Asked if it was strange seeing a negative energy from Odom, Cuban said:

"No, but the first 17 times, I decided to try to help him and turn it into a positive. In any deal, sometimes you're on the right end. Sometimes, you're on the wrong end.

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

The clash in the locker room was the breaking point. But other problems had built the frustration level.

For instance, Odom, who did not respond to numerous email requests for a comment, was late arriving at Friday's home game, coming into the arena just moments before 6 p.m. for the 7:30 p.m. game. Players usually are expected to arrive by 5:30 p.m.

"That's an issue,'' Cuban said. "You know, I think it was all cumulative.''

Odom also was late for the team meeting Saturday before the Memphis game. A Mavericks official had to get Odom from his room for the strategy session at the team's hotel.

Habitual tardiness was a problem for Odom, and it was taken by some of his teammates as a sign of unprofessionalism.

But mostly, it was his play on the court that exasperated many people, although there apparently never were any confrontations between Odom and his teammates.

"When you lose and you don't think a guy's pulling his weight, there's friction,'' said Cuban, who noted that no players came to him to complain about Odom. "But it wasn't just Lamar, and it's not the first time it's happened.''

Cuban said the Mavericks were aware of Odom's fragile mental condition when they made the deal in December to bring him to Dallas for a trade exception and a conditional first-round draft choice.

"We thought we could fight through it,'' he said. "We knew that's why he was available. We have a great culture, and we thought we could work through it.''

Other variables are at work in Odom's situation. His agent, Jeff Schwartz, also is the agent for Deron Williams, the New Jersey Nets point guard who is a free agent this summer. Williams also is the subject of much speculation that he may join the Mavericks, who will be able to offer any free agent maximum money.

Cuban, who had met with Schwartz and Odom in late February when Odom confirmed that he was "all in'' at that point, said he is not concerned that any scars from the Odom situation will have an impact on future dealings with Schwartz clients.

It remains possible that the Mavericks could trade Odom's rights up until June 29, when they would have to buy out the final year of his contract for $2.4 million.

As for the benefit of dumping Odom, Cuban said: "We hope it's addition by subtraction. Just put him in the Tariq Abdul-Wahad category and move on.''

The Mavericks acquired Abdul-Wahad in 2003, but he spent two years banished from the team when he had constant injuries and his commitment came into question.

With the Odom saga over, it's clear there were no winners, although Cuban begged to differ.

"Yeah, I think the winners are us,'' he said. "He didn't want to play. He decided to go elsewhere or do something else. Now we regroup and go forward. So, you just take the circumstances and make the best of them.

"Every home run hitter strikes out now and then. We tried. Do I feel let down? No. Am I disappointed? Yeah, I wanted it to work. We worked hard for it to work, but I failed. I couldn't make it work, so we moved on.''
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I realize i OD'ed on the bolding :laugh: but it really is a telling read.
 
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