Lamar Odom Traded to Mavs

[Mexi]

The Los Angeles Lakers have pulled out of the three-team deal with New Orleans and Houston that would have landed Chris Paul in L.A., according to sources close to the talks.

The reason for the Lakers' withdrawal was not immediately known.

The Hornets, Rockets and Lakers had been working for the past 48 hours to complete a reconfigured version of the trade that the teams struck Thursday that had been vetoed by NBA commissioner David Stern.

The Hornets, according to sources, will now redouble their efforts to trade Paul elsewhere. Paul can become a free agent at season's end.

The Lakers are now expected to turn their full focus to obtaining Dwight Howard, who has asked the Orlando Magic to trade him.

One source close to the process said that the Lakers will instead trade Lamar Odom to the Dallas Mavericks.

The Lakers will receive unspecified draft considerations from the Mavericks in exchange for Odom, whose contract slots into the Mavericks' trade exception created in their three-team trade earlier Saturday that sent Tyson Chandler to New York.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/7340640/los-angeles-lakers-pull-trade-talks-chris-paul-according-sources

 

[elcheato]

There's your center piece for the CP3 trade, folks.

 

[Pugz]

id LOL if they get dwight and that trade then gets vetoed. lol

 

[jonathanlambert33]

I "lol" at this deal.

 

[Pugz]

odom requested this trade btw. kobes pissed. good luck lakers. ill see you in clipper land

 

[DJT]

I love how Kobe and Fish got pissed about this.

It was clear the team didn't want him that bad, so he left...

 

[Pugz]

the team does value him, they have. but he felt disrespected about the failed cp3 trade and how he was still supposed to report to camps while they were still trying to deal him. so he asked for a trade and they traded him. now if they dont go out and use that TPE in a bigger deal.. theyll look like some toolbags and theyll really miss odom.