With the injury suffered by starting shooting guard J.J. Redick who will be out for at least six weeks, the L.A. Clippers are in need of another player to fill out the roster. Former Clipper Lamar Odom has been working out in hopes of landing a deal with the team, but sources say that the versatile forward may not be re-signed until the team returns from a seven-game road trip in the middle of December.
Marc Stein of ESPN.com writes that talk is ripe within the Clippers camp that Odom is unlikely to sign a new deal with the team while the squad is out east despite the injury to Redick and the continued rehabilitation of forward Matt Barnes.
The website adds that for the meantime, the Clippers will rely on veterans Jamal Crawford and Willie Green to fill Redick's void. The Clippers will start a seven-game road trip that will take almost two weeks. It will begin in Atlanta on Wednesday and have stops in Memphis, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Boston, Brooklyn and Washington.
"Odom, meanwhile, continues to work out on his own in anticipation of rejoining the Clippers, with whom he spent last season before a turbulent summer that saw him attached to a string of unflattering headlines in Hollywood's tabloid press," writes Stein.
Clippers coach Doc Rivers is optimistic that Odom will be signed to a rest-of-the-season deal. He was quoted by ESPN.com as saying about the forward: "He's somebody that I've always liked and I like him more now after hearing from Phil Jackson to Vinny [Del Negro] to all the players the type of guy he is in the locker room. When I hear that stuff, without saying exactly what I heard, you want him in your locker room."
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