Lamar Odom was supposedly the most talented and proven player sent to LA in the infamous trade of Shaq. But after several years of regular season and playoff failures, everybody knew that Odom was not good enough to be Robin for Kobe’s turn as Batman.

And then the Lakers fleeced the Grizzlies and Pau Gasol joined the boys in gold and purple to be Robin. And while they proved to be a more successful Batman & Robin pairing, Kobe and Gasol fell short of the ultimate goal as well.

Lamar Odom fans (I suppose there are in fact Odom fans other than his mother) have now seen Lamar fail to be Batman with the Clippers, Robin with the Heat (to a young Dwayne Wade), Robin with the Lakers and now he fails as the Cat Woman in LA as well.

Next season, with the hoped for return of Bynum, Odom shouldn’t even rank as Cat Woman. I’m not sure what comes after that. Maybe the butler?

Odom seems uniquely talented, but with this much failure on his resume is legacy seems in doubt. His future path now appears to have more Shareef Abdur-Rahim or Antione Walker in it than Rasheed Wallace or James Worthy. And no, I’m not trying to make a direct comparison between Worthy and Rasheed. Lay off the caffeine people.