Wednesday marked the day in which the NBA Champions and 6thman, Lamar Odom resumed contact, according to the Los Angeles Times. This comes a week after the Los Angeles Lakers pulled their original two offers off the table. As reported by ESPN, the free agent is seeking a $10 million a year contract with multiple years. The Lakers best offer as of last week was $9 million a year deal. The talks are going well, but no agreements from either side have need finalized. Though, with the addition of Odom’s childhood friend Ron Artest, and the new piece of bling Odom will receive at the beginning of next season, it is hard to image he will sign with anyone else. Sorry D Wade.

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The once infamous Lebron James getting dunked on tape is finally out for all to see. But all you see is a bunch of hype over nothing. Like the rest of the sports world, I had built up this monumental play in which the NBA's biggest star was embarrassed by a college sophomore; that's right sophomore. Little did anyone know, myself included, that all this hype was over Lebron routing late to help protect the basket. Xavier's 6'4'' Jordan Crawford, the sophomore guard, crossed over his man, drove full speed into the lane and all Lebron could do was put a hand to the side of Crawford's face. Crawford put it down with two hands and celebrated back to the defensive end. Wow. Not to take anything away from the young guard, but really? All this commotion over that?Nike finally realized the negativ

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The once infamous Lebron James getting dunked on tape is finally out for all to see. But all you see is a bunch of hype over nothing. Like the rest of the sports world, I had built up this monumental play in which the NBA's biggest star was embarrassed by a college sophomore; that's right sophomore. Little did anyone know, myself included, that all this hype was over Lebron routing late to help protect the basket. Xavier's 6'4'' Jordan Crawford, the sophomore guard, crossed over his man, drove full speed into the lane and all Lebron could do was put a hand to the side of Crawford's face. Crawford put it down with two hands and celebrated back to the defensive end. Wow. Not to take anything away from the young guard, but really? All this commotion over that?Nike finally realized the negativ

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Don’t you love it when sports writers create a blog talking purely out of their, let’s just say, ‘ass’. A recent blogger on ESPN posted a story entitled Sore Winners. The main example used in the story was none other then the Zen Master himself, Phil Jackson of the World Champion Los Angeles Lakers.  The story claims that Phil is a bad winner because we wore a hat with X, the Roman numeral 10, once the Lakers beat the Orlando Magic in the finals last month. The X stands for his unprecedented tenth title as a head coach, exceeding the great Red Auerbach.  So why is the hat showing bad sportsmanship? Every time Michael Jordan won a title, he always held up the fingers of the championship, 1 through 6. Nike made a special shirt for Kobe Bryant’s fourth championship that he wore at the Lakers victory parade. Therefore by default, MJ and Kobe are bad sports too?  Why should Phil, or any athlete for that matter, have to mask what they have accomplished? It’s not like he ran around the court refusing to shake the other teams’ hands, yelling he is the best. The hat was not just a way for Phil to show off, but a gift to him. It wasn’t a gift from Nike or any other sponsor, but rather a gift from his children. He wore a gift showing off his accomplishment from the people that matter the most to him. That’s a bad sport if I’ve ever seen one! 

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