Lakers withdraw offer to Lamar Odom because Mbenga says so

The LA Lakers had just pulled off their offer to Lamar Odom for contract extension. The offer was sitting on the lap of Odom for a week now and because the Lakers haven't received any kind of response from the other party, Jerry Buss and company decided to cancel it.

Here are the details of the offer from the LA Times:

Lakers team officials, who were not authorized to speak about the negotiations, said Buss offered Odom a deal for $9 million a season for four years at $36 million, or $10 million a season over three years for a total of $30 million.

Odom and his agent, Jeff Schwartz, were looking for $10 million a year over five seasons.

News that Odom is in talks with the Mavericks and Heat could have made Jerry Buss unhappy.

The Heat and Mavericks can offer Odom only the mid-level exception of $5.8 million, but can give him a five-year deal up to $34 million.

It is obvious that it would be more bank account fattening to accept the Lakers offer as compared to the other two teams and if he stays with the Lakers he will have another strong chance for a ring. Also, there are only a few teams that can still burn some cap space to give way to a luxury player like Lamar.

Actually, the negotiation can still resume and Lakers fan can hope that this will not turn into a Marian Hossa circus backfire. Lamar won't like this scenario either: Declining to play for the Lakers and seeing them repeat next year and lastly-having his name a definition on Urbandictionary.com sound like Hossa.

Only that he betrayed the favorite.

Here are the salaries for the Lakers in the 2009-2010 season.

LAKERS	2009-10 salary
Kobe Bryant	$23 million
Pau Gasol	$16.5 million
Andrew Bynum	$12.5 million
Ron Artest	$5.6 million
Adam Morrison	$5.2 million
Derek Fisher	$5 million
Sasha Vujacic	$5 million
Luke Walton	$4.8 million
Shannon Brown	$2 million
Jordan Farmar	$1.9 million
DJ Mbenga	$959,000
Josh Powell	$959,000