Egos Stand in Way of Lakers' Jerry Buss and Lamar Odom

Jerry Buss, Lamar Odom, we get it. We understand how both of you have bruised egos at this point and are upset about how each of you feel "spurned" by the opposite party.  Get over it. Odom feels that the Lakers did not show enough interest in him, that they did not pursue him hard enough, and that they didn't offer enough years in the contract offer that they presented.  It was reported that the first deal offered was for three years and $27 million, and the subsequent deal was a four-year offer, roughly around $36 million.  When Odom's agent didn't respond in what Jerry Buss, owner of the champion Lakers, felt was a timely fashion, Los Angeles pulled the deal off the table. Buss wanted Odom to come crawling back after testing the market, essentially apologizing for spiting him and plead for the offer to be put back on the table. That didn't happen. (Odom reportedly called Buss, but it is apparent that little progress was made.) Meanwhile, t...