Three days of nonsense is long enough – let’s officially stop perpetuating the myth that the Los Angeles Lakers traded Lamar Odom because he asked to be traded.

Following the collapse of a three-team deal that was supposed to send Chris Paul to the Lakers, all hell broke loose in Hollywood. Odom, best known as the reigning NBA Sixth Man of the Year and beau of the “funny Kardashian sister” was supposed to be shipped off to the New Orleans Hornets in that deal, and apparently the notion of having to spend an entire year in The Big Easy shook him to his very core.