More from the media sessions following Thursday's Lakers exit interviews:

Lamar Odom, who brought down the house with his joking expectation that he'd have an easy contract negotiation -- "In and out: Three years, $80 million" -- was asked if he thought the Lakers could afford to keep both him and Trevor Ariza. (Shannon Brown is the team's third unrestricted free agent, but not in the same financial stratosphere as the others.)
"I don't know how the books look, you know what I mean?" he replied. "I just come out and play.
"But I think that's important, right? You want to keep the team together. We just won a championship. You don't want to see one piece not there, if you can help it.
"But it's the business of sports. Hopefully, we can keep everybody here."
The learning curve: Center Andrew Bynum, who also had his exit interview on Thursday, has no regrets about pushing himself to play in the postseason, even if his right knee wasn't fully healed from the torn medial collaterial ligament he suffered in late January.
"I wanted to make it back," he said, "so that's why I took it to the court maybe before my trainer wanted me to, or some of the other people around me. But I just felt like I wanted to experience the playoffs.
"Even though I definitely didn't play my best ball, I still got to understand the next level, what it's like to have to play a regular season game versus a playoff game.
"Five minutes in a playoff game is like 15 to 18 minutes in a regular season game. The intensity is just that high. So it was great for me to be able to experience that."
That difference, he said, was a definite surprise.
"Especially with Utah," he said. "I came back and I did pretty well in the last game of the regular season" -- in just his fourth game back, he had 22 points, four rebounds and three blocks -- "but then they switched everything up, switched the matchups up, and everything.
"It's like playing chess in the playoffs. Both teams get to adjust to each other in the playoffs, try to find something that works. It's way different than in the regular season."
The first priority for his summer, he said, is to rest and allow the knee to heal fully. Then he'll get back to the running and weight-room work he did last summer. General manager Mitch Kupchak and coach Phil Jackson have also asked him to get in some games during the summer, which he could do in the famed summer pick-up games at UCLA, or at some venue in Atlanta, where he works out in the off-season.
The goal is to get back to the extremely high level he was playing just before his injury. Looking back, he says that run of strong games in late January was built on two things: "One, the timing's there," he said. "You take the first 15 games of the regular season and you just keep building timing and getting better and better, getting into your rhythm earlier in the game.
"And if you watch those games, I'm up and down the court. I'm first or second, always, up and down on both ends, so I'm always ahead of the ball. I'm always involved. Coming back off the injury, you just can't get it back in a week and a half. It's just not going to happen."
Bynum also believes he and Pau Gasol have only scratched the surface of what they can do on the court together.
"I've got to get a little bit better at the high-post game," he said, "so when he beats me down the court, he doesn't have to worry about always having to stay high. That's something I plan on working about this summer.
"We still haven't been able to master it yet. We've still only played about 30 solid games together still, so I can't wait to come back next season and really develop a high-low action."
The color of success: The most telling thing about Sasha Vujacic's media session after his exit interview may not have been what he said, but what he wore.
Vujacic -- who reacted to the Lakers' NBA Finals loss to Boston a year ago by removing the color green from his wardrobe, and with negative comments when anyone wore green in the Lakers locker room -- walked in wearing a polo shirt that looked to be a perfect shade of Celtics green.
"It's a good feeling," he said. "I like green. Now I like it."
Vujacic had a harder time liking his own season -- which saw his minutes, shooting and scoring drop from 2007-08 -- although that disappointment was offset by the ultimate result.
"Sometimes you've got to give up something in order for the team to succeed," he said. "... To be a part of a team's success, and you've got to put individual things aside. That's what I've learned this season. ... Being in front of you today as a world champion is important for me and my teammates."
Vujacic shot just 39 percent this season (down from 45 percent), averaged 5.8 points (down from 8.8) and did not score a point in the Lakers' five-game win over Orlando in the NBA Finals.
"It's not a secret that I shot the ball terribly this year," he said. "I was a disappointment to myself as well. There's no one to blame for that, no excuses to be found. I was trying all year long to find the game rhythm, catch the freedom that I had last year and to play with the same not confidence but just freeness, be loose. That was missing. But I know what I'm capable of, he knows what I'm capable of, and I'm looking forward to next season."
The general opinion was that, playing fewer minutes, Vujacic tried to do too much with the time he had. He agreed.
"Of course I did," he said. "... Buy trying to do too much, you think you're going to get more minutes, but in order to just try to be loose and let the game come to you, you're pushing, you're pushing, you try to do too much, and then bad things start happening."
His hope and intention is to right himself by playing for his native Slovenia in this year's European championship tournament.
"That's going to be crucial for me, actually," he said. "And talking to Mitch and Phil, both of them agree that's a good idea. I think it's going to be a very interesting summer, to get away and refocus, and (have a) rebirth. I need to completely clear my mind of everything, and that's the best way to do it with the national team, and try to win something there."
It's the first time he's played for Slovenia in seven years, he said, "because the goals are high -- winning the European championship. Before, their goals were to just make it to the semifinals and quarterfinals and just see what happened.
"But for the first time, they came to L.A. and talked to me and they explained me the plan, and I like it, and I want to win."
That will be tough, because Slovenia is in the same pool with England, Serbia and Olympic silver medalist Spain -- which may or may not have Lakers forward Pau Gasol for the tournament.
"He played a lot of minutes this year," Vujacic said, " and I would understand if he played or not. ... Whatever he decides, I think Spain and everybody will respect that, and we will respect whatever he does.
"I wish him to play, because I don't want him to say if we beat them, it's because he didn't play. I think it would be fun."
White House on Line 1: Lakers spokesman John Black said Jackson had received a congratulatory phone call Thursday from a noted basketball fan, President Barack Obama, but didn't offer many details.
"Phil can share what he wants when he talks tomorrow," Black said, referring to Jackson's press conference scheduled for Friday afternoon.
Black also said discussions have already begun on visiting the White House, a tradition for championship teams in most major sports. He expects it will happen sometime before the season begins.
"It will be a scheduling challenge," he said, "but we'll pull it off."