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Lamar Odom Fighting for his Life

good article here from the NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/sports/basketball/lamar-odoms-decline-played-out-on-tv.html?_r=0


...Odom welcomed the opportunity to do the show — and the public scrutiny. Knowing his attention and effort sometimes flagged over the course of the season, he hoped the show would help hold him accountable. Even a mini-slump would raise questions about his priorities.

“That’s almost like the added incentive a little bit,” Odom said. “I’ll make sure I remain sharp and stay in the gym, but basketball is basketball. I won’t tire myself out. Of course, if I don’t play well, it’s easy to take a shot at me.”

There was little reason to do so that season, among the finest of Odom’s career. A 6-foot-10 power forward, he set career highs in shooting and 3-point shooting percentage and averaged 14.4 points, 8.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists, contributions that earned him the N.B.A.’s Sixth Man Award.

He did not anticipate what was next.

“When he got traded from the Lakers, I think he took that hard,” said the former N.B.A. player Speedy Claxton, a high school teammate. “He really liked it in L.A. He felt like he had a family there, with the Kardashians. I think that was kind of the start of it, when everything went bad.”
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...Barkley, the former high school teammate, said: “The attention didn’t bother Lamar. It didn’t go to his head. He was always the same person.”

Yet Barkley — a product of public housing, the youngest of nine children — knew that Odom was dealing with tougher circumstances than most. Odom’s father was largely absent. His mother died of cancer when he was 12, and he then lived with his grandmother. It was no secret to Barkley how Odom coped with adversity.

“Basketball, man,” Barkley said. “Basketball. Basketball was his therapy.”
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...Selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the fourth overall pick in 1999, Odom twice violated the league’s drug policy in his first four seasons. Then, in June 2006, his 6-month-old son, Jayden, died of sudden infant death syndrome in New York while Odom was home to attend the funeral of an aunt. (He has two other children from a previous relationship.)

Barkley, who was a first-round pick of the Portland Trail Blazers, wound up spending much of his career overseas. But he and Odom would occasionally reconnect in New York. Odom, Barkley said, always seemed elated to see Barkley’s mother, Shirley, a pastor at God’s Divine Prayer Tabernacle in Brooklyn. Odom would ask her to lay her hands on him and pray for him.

By then, Odom had found a home with the Lakers, fulfilling many of the expectations that had trailed him since high school. But he also seemed to sense that he was vulnerable, too.

A Crushing Trade

When the Lakers traded Odom to the Dallas Mavericks in December 2011, many of those who knew him best feared for his mental health.

“Being with the Lakers meant everything to Lamar,” Charles said, “and Lamar is a very sensitive young man. When he was traded, I said, ‘Oh, my God, you just crushed that kid.’ Like, if you know him, you knew how much it meant for him to be with the Lakers.”
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Gameface said:
You are an absolutely abhorrent piece of garbage.
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Lamar Odom spent more than average American's yearly income at brothel!

Sources are saying that Lamar Odom spent a shocking amount of money at the brothel he was staying at before he was rushed to a Nevada hospital after being found unconscious.

In the days he was at the Love Ranch, Odom is said to have spent $75,000 at the brothel, CNN reported.

Sorry, pal, I'm not cutting this guy any slack! You can make him out to be the innocent victim, enable him all you want.....make all the excuses you can come up with. These and the others are the facts of the matter and that's how many of us feel.
 
He is paying for some young ladies college tuition, good on him.

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carolinajazz said:

Lamar Odom spent more than average American's yearly income at brothel!

Sources are saying that Lamar Odom spent a shocking amount of money at the brothel he was staying at before he was rushed to a Nevada hospital after being found unconscious.

In the days he was at the Love Ranch, Odom is said to have spent $75,000 at the brothel, CNN reported.

Sorry, pal, I'm not cutting this guy any slack! You can make him out to be the innocent victim, enable him all you want.....make all the excuses you can come up with. These and the others are the facts of the matter and that's how many of us feel.
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You are gleeful about a guy being in a coma who at best has brain damage.

You can make all the excuses for your nasty disgusting hatred you want...
 
King Cy said:
I don't pray because God isn't real, but I don't think it's that tough to pray for both if you do that sort of thing.
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Oh snap, if Republicans read here you now face extradition to Canada :(


More serious note: I'm truly puzzled how someone like carolinajazz isn't permanently banned on an allegedly family friendly board. Do you want your kids to read the gospel of a modern age Koo Koo Klan follower?
 
I find it funny (and weird) that people are ganging up on other posters over a guy who apparently is in poor health because of his own decisions.

It is sad that he was clinging to life (before apparently making some progress today) but whether he was depressed or not, whether he had a hard life or not, or whether he is a good soul or not, he made the decisions that lead him to the brothel with drugs while unloading large sums of money on questionable company. Can people not call it like they see it? Should we be praising his actions?

Perhaps I'm jaded, as I used to work in an ICU as a nurse, because I saw this stuff all the time. You can wish them well without condoning their illegal behavior.

Just my 2 cents. Flame away.

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RobDMB said:
I find it funny (and weird) that people are ganging up on other posters over a guy who apparently is in poor health because of his own decisions.

It is sad that he was clinging to life (before apparently making some progress today) but whether he was depressed or not, whether he had a hard life or not, or whether he is a good soul or not, he made the decisions that lead him to the brothel with drugs while unloading large sums of money on questionable company. Can people not call it like they see it? Should we be praising his actions?

Perhaps I'm jaded, as I used to work in an ICU as a nurse, because I saw this stuff all the time. You can wish them well without condoning their illegal behavior.

Just my 2 cents. Flame away.

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I agree completely with what you're saying.

What I don't agree with is people expressing smug satisfaction over something like this.
 
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