Lamar Odom Ends Free Agency Standoff With an Easy Choice

Lamar Odom may relish the sweets more than an athlete in his sport of choice should, and his play can be as uneven and dissatisfying as a chicken fried steak in France.

He's not an idiot.

If we learn anything from his no-surprise decision to return to the defending champions, it should be that.

Was he ever going to Miami to play for a first round victim on life support?

Fat chance. Doctors say people who eat a lot of candy get fat, but that's beside the point.

(You didn't think you were going to make it through this column without a playful ribbing of Odom's previous weight struggles, did you?)

ESPN first reported Thursday afternoon that Odom had verbally agreed to a four-year, $33 million deal.

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