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Odds still favor Odom's returning to fold

By Marc Stein
ESPN.com

Thursday, July 23, 2009

The prospect of Lamar Odom's leaving the Los Angeles Lakers would be a free-agent triumph for 29 teams in the NBA and anyone else fretting about the league's overall competitive health. Which is exactly why many of those teams watching the Lakers' standoff with Odom haven't allowed themselves to get too excited, even after a week's worth of signals suggesting that Odom might actually wind up in Miami. The Los Angeles Times reported in its Thursday editions that the sides resumed contract neg ...

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