{"id":11824,"date":"2011-12-12T16:26:18","date_gmt":"2011-12-12T21:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11824"},"modified":"2011-12-12T16:26:18","modified_gmt":"2011-12-12T21:26:18","slug":"kobe-upset-by-odoms-departure-for-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11824","title":{"rendered":"Kobe Upset By Odom&#8217;s Departure For Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, CA &#8211; The Lakers traded forward<strong> Lamar Odom<\/strong> and a second-round draft pick to the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday night for a first-round pick and an $8.9 million trade exception, capping Los Angeles&#8217; stunning 72-hour breakup with last season&#8217;s Sixth Man of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The Lakers and Mavericks reached a swift deal after <strong>Odom<\/strong> learned Thursday that Los Angeles was attempting to trade him in a megadeal for New Orleans superstar <strong>Chris Paul<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After the NBA blocked that trade, <strong>Odom<\/strong> declined to report to the Lakers&#8217; opening day of training camp on Friday. Odom then requested a trade in a meeting with general manager<strong> Mitch Kupchak<\/strong>, and the Lakers improbably swung a deal with the rival Mavericks, who swept Los Angeles out of the second round of last season&#8217;s playoffs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EL SEGUNDO, CA &#8211; The Lakers traded forward Lamar Odom and a second-round draft pick to the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday night for a first-round pick and an $8.9 million trade exception, capping Los Angeles&#8217; stunning 72-hour breakup with last season&#8217;s Sixth Man of the Year. The Lakers and Mavericks reached a swift deal after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11824\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}