Re: Lamar Odom

["Jeff Tepper" <jaytee@itasoft.com>]

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> From: JOzersky@aol.com
> To: celtics@igtc.COM
> Subject: Re: Lamar Odom
> Date: Sunday, July 27, 1997 9:36 PM
> 
> They've been discussing Odom on the usenet list, and several people say
he
> can't play until he's drafted, which would be next year.  But don't free
> agents sign on in training camp all the time without being drafted?  Or
do
> they submit their names, and then when they go undrafted Become free
agents?
>  Otherwise, all the top players would simply not file for the draft, and
> could start enormous bidding wars for their services, play only for
> big-market teams, etc.

The difference between the players who didn't get drafted but went to camps
(like Danya Abrams for example) and Lamar Odom is that the players like
Abrams were ELIGIBLE to be drafted and the teams simply chose not to draft
them.  Teams didn't have a choice of whether or not to draft Odom because
he didn't apply for the draft and was therefore eligible to be drafted. 
This is why he can't sign with a NBA team right now.  

Jeff