{"id":9058,"date":"2012-04-10T16:23:51","date_gmt":"2012-04-10T20:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/?p=1802"},"modified":"2012-04-10T16:23:51","modified_gmt":"2012-04-10T20:23:51","slug":"lamar-odom-is-done-with-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/lamar-odom-is-done-with-dallas\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamar Odom is Done with Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It seems as if only yesterday Lamar Odom was traded to the Mavericks<\/a> in exchange for some chump change and a first round draft pick.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t yesterday, but it wasn\u2019t too long ago\u2014it was made official on December 11, 2011.<\/p>\n

Now, as of April 9, 2012, Odom and the Mavericks are mutually deciding to part ways.\u00a0 This is not particularly surprising, given that the team had already placed Odom on the inactive list for this season.\u00a0 You can\u2019t blame the Mavericks, as they are on a mission to make the playoffs, and thus far only have a 50-game stint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

General Manager Donnie Nelson said that consistency is the most important quality.\u00a0 \u201cUnfortunately with him in his state right now, he\u2019s just not capable of doing that. \u00a0I say that with his best interest in mind. \u00a0He\u2019s going through a very, very tough personal time.\u201d\u00a0 Things were looking very bad for Odom in his recent game against the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a>.\u00a0 For this 94-89 loss, Odom only played four minutes before being kicked off the court.\u00a0 Even Mavericks star Dirk Nowitzki who was supporting Odom for most of the season, gave reporters a stern \u201cI’m done talking about that,\u201d statement.\u00a0 To make matters worse, he was booed by the home crowd after averaging only 6.6 points and 20.5 minutes\u2014a career low for a two time NBA Champion<\/a> and NBA<\/a> \u201cSixth Man of the Year\u201d.<\/p>\n

A lot of people are speculating as to what personal dilemma could be affecting Lamar.\u00a0 Some ideas include a family tragedy, to general sickness, to even Odom\u2019s resentment that he didn\u2019t interest more teams during his free stint.\u00a0 Of course, most people are going with the safe theory that he simply didn\u2019t want to play in Dallas.\u00a0 For now, at least that nightmare is over for Lamar Odom, as he and Dallas are history.<\/p>\n

The question is, where does he go from here?\u00a0 Where will he resurface next and will he get back his momentum for the next season?\u00a0 Or is his career toast after a series of bad moves?\u00a0 What do you think, Mavericks fans?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems as if only yesterday Lamar Odom was traded to the Mavericks in exchange for some chump change and a first round draft pick.\u00a0 It wasn\u2019t yesterday, but it wasn\u2019t too long ago\u2014it was made official on December 11, 2011. Now, as of April 9, 2012, Odom and the Mavericks are mutually deciding to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stub.com\/hq\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}