I am coming off my week-long suspension from blogging after posting that nasty eBay auction and I'm going straight to the Luke Walton story. We've all read the reports about a woman being arrested for stalking the Lakers forward and I'm sure some of us have envisioned some blonde, SoCal hottie following the Lukester to the beach during the entire offseason.

Well, that may have been true, but I sincerely hope not. Have you seen her? Walton must have been scared to death during all of this mess. Thanks for a site called http://bittenandbound.com, we can now share in Walton's misery and view her mugshot.

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As you may know, I'm a major Lamar Odom fan and I'm not happy with how Phil Jackson has gone into the pre-season determined to mess with him. First, he said Odom might come off the bench this year in favor of Trevor Ariza. Now, he's trying him out at point guard and ripped his performance in the first game pretty badly. If you aren't familiar with Odom, he's 6"10', handles the ball like a point guard, finished seventh in the NBA last year in rebounding and is one of the most unselfish, team players in the league. He's actually more point guard minded than anyone on the Lakers roster and I like this experiment, but it's not fair to rip on him that badly after one pre-season game. How many players in the league can play power forward one year and then point the next?