Lamar Odom to NBA Development League

   The Dallas Mavericks Management had officially assigned Lamar Odom to the Texas Legends in the NBA Development League.

   Odom was traded to the Dallas Mavericks for a first-round draft pick and an $8.9 million trade exception after David Stern vetoed a proposed three-team trade with the New Orleans Hornets involving Odom that would have sent him to the Hornets, Chris Paul to the Lakers, and Pau Gasol to the Houston Rockets

    Odom last played for the Mavericks last February 20 and missed all of the Maverick's game since the start of All-Star Break.

According to inside source, Odom was out due to family matter. 

Coach Rick Carlisle said Odom will return Sunday.

“He has to come back and play his (butt) off,” Carlisle said. “He’s got to play hard, got to be into it and that’s it.”

   Lamar Odom was adjudged as the  NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award last season after posting an averaged 13.5 points, 7.5 rebounds in 28.4 minutes of the bench. 

ESPN racist headliner against Jeremy Lin

    The photo above was an actual ESPN headliner last Friday where Jeremy Lin had a career high 9 turnovers with a loss against the New Orleans Hornets and broke the New York Knicks winning streak to 7. 

    The column was written by Jason Whitlock with a title of "Chink In the Armor" were the word chink refers to the Asian which was seen by many as an Ethnic slur.  

    ESPN issued a statement regarding the racial title and express their dissatisfaction about the issue.  "The headline was removed [35 minutes after it appeared]. We are conducting a complete review of our cross-platform editorial procedures and are determining appropriate disciplinary action to ensure this does not happen again. We regret and apologize for this mistake."

    Though Jeremy Lin was not really concerned about the issue But some of the Asian society and Jeremy Lin supporters had caused a flurry of hate comments from different Social Networking sites to show their sentiments about the topic. 

    I as a blogger, one of the most crucial part of writing is the Title or should i say the Caption. I respect ESPN whole through out their career as they are well known and respected per Sports News is concerned. But throwing a racial slur on their headlines is somewhat a pathetic move specially to a Rising Star who actually represents a great percentage of Humanity.