Lamar Odom has a Twitter account that nearly 3 million users follow, but you wouldn't say that the 13-year NBA vet and husband of Khloe Kardashian (a marital bond that probably accounts for roughly 2.4 million of those followers, because the world is amazing) maintains a consistent presence on the service. His usage is less predictable and more erratic, prone to lengthy stretches of downtime punctuated by flurries of activity that see him fire off handfuls of updates in tight windows. Pick your favorite not-quite-reliable streak shooter; he's sort of like basketball Twitter's version of that. (Mine, of course, is John Starks, but everyone's got their own answer to questions this important.) After two weeks on the microblogging bench — a dry spell during which it was reported that "Khloe and Lamar," the popular E! network reality television show in which the couple stars, will be put on hold indefinitely this summer — @RealLamarOdom tore off the warmups Thursday night and got back in the tweet game. His return was marked by a string of missives that simultaneously offered some first-person insight into the reasons behind Odom's disappointing season for the Dallas Mavericks and gave his detractors enough 140-character ammunition to continue to blast the former Sixth Man of the Year for having his priorities out of line. First, Odom looked toward the year ahead and dubbed himself "The Comeback Kid," which is music to the ears of basketball fans who've grown to love the 32-year-old forward's multifaceted game and hated watching him play like his operating system had a virus as he posted across-the-board career lows in 50 games for the Mavs this year. The problem, for some, came in the inspiration behind that comeback effort (or, at least, the way he phrased it):

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