<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'></p> <div class="bi">Odom May Play Friday</div> <div> <span style="font-style: italic">Nov 6</span> - Forward Lamar Odom practiced Monday and could play Friday against Minnesota. He took part in some contact drills at practice, but, as he said, won't "rip it up" until practices later this week. He will not play tonight against New Orleans.</p> </p> "It felt pretty good to practice, get up and down with the guys, get blocked a couple of times, make some shots, miss some shots, grab rebounds," Odom said. "My basketball timing's off a little bit, but hopefully in practice I'll get it back." -- <font color="#000000">Los Angeles Times</font></p></div></div>
The Lakers need to get him as much minutes as possible in this game. This is essentially a practice game for him at this point and the Lakers don't play again until Tuesday so Odom should play 35 plus minutes to build up his stamina. The Lakers have a handful of tough games next week including games at San Antonio and Houston, then a home game against Detroit and the Bulls on Sunday.</p> We need Odom as sharp as possible for all four of those games.</p>
