Lamar Odom

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Lamar Joseph Odom (born November 6, 1979) is an American retired professional basketball player. As a member of the Los Angeles Lakers at the National Basketball Association (NBA), he won the NBA championship in 2009 and 2010 and was named the NBA's Best Sixth Player of the Year.

As a high school player, Odom received a national player honors year from Parade in 1997. He played college basketball for the University of Rhode Island, getting all the honors of the conference in the only season at Atlantic 10 Conference. He was recruited in the first round of the 1999 NBA draft with a fourth overall pick by the Los Angeles Clippers. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie Team, but twice he broke the league drug policy in four seasons with the Clippers. He signed as a free agent bounded by the Miami Heat, where he played a season in 2003-04 before trading to the Lakers. Odom spent seven seasons with the Lakers, who sold him to the Dallas Mavericks in 2011. After his move, his career declined. He traded back to the Clippers in 2012 and played briefly in Spain in 2014.

Odom played in the United States national team, won bronze medals at the 2004 Olympics and gold medals at FIBA â€‹â€‹World Championship (2010 later in the World Cup) in 2010.

Odom married KhloÃƒÆ'Ã‚ Â© Kardashian from 2009 to 2016. During their marriage, Odom made several appearances on the reality television show, Keeping Up with the Kardashians . He and Kardashian also have their own reality series, KhloÃƒÆ'Ã‚ Â© & amp; Lamar .

In October 2015, Odom went into a coma and was hospitalized with life-threatening medical problems. Odom has since recovered from his health fears and received drug treatment.

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Odom was born in South Jamaica, Queens, New York City, to Joe Odom and Cathy Mercer. Her father is a heroin addict, and Odom's mother died of colon cancer when she was twelve years old. On his deathbed, Odom's mother told him: "Be nice to everyone". After that, she was raised by her maternal grandmother, Mildred Mercer.

In his first three years of high school, Odom played for King Christ's High School in Central Village, Queens. He left school early in his senior year for poor grades, moved first to the Redemption Christian Academy in Troy, New York and then to St. Thomas Aquinas High School is now no longer working in New Britain, Connecticut, where he was trained by Jerry DeGregorio. As a senior, Odom was recognized nationally as the Player of the Player of the Year in 1997. He was also named the First All-American Team Parade for the second year in a row, and earned USA Today > All-USA 1st Team honors. During his youth, Odom worked with future NBA players Elton Brand and Ron Artest (later known as Metta World Peace) - each of whom will be teammates with Odom in the NBA - on the same AAU team, and play with the Lakers the future of teammate Kobe Bryant at Adidas ABCD camp. Adidas Executive Sonny Vaccaro commented when Odom had a "$ 2 million smile".

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College career

Odom contemplated entering the NBA directly from high school, and consulted with Bryant, who had made the jump a year earlier. He decided he was not ready, and decided to attend the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. However, after the Sports Illustrated report questioned his unusually high score of 22 out of 36 in ACT, the school released him in July 1997 before he played the game for them. In the same summer, he received a quote to ask for prostitution following a covert operation by the Las Vegas police. Later, the NCAA investigation found a payment received Odom for $ 5,600 from booster David Chapman. Coach Bill Bayno was dismissed and UNLV was placed on probation for four years.

Odom was transferred to the University of Rhode Island but was forced to sit outside the 1997-98 season. He was accepted as a non-matriculating student, and was not allowed to play intramural basketball. The room and the board were paid by his father, which was covered by G.I. Bill. After two semesters and summer sessions, Odom gets his eligibility to play basketball. His career in Rhode Island has been threatened after the first half, when he disappeared before the final. However, Rhode Island coach Jim Harrick persuaded three of his four instructors to allow him to make his work. The coach also has Odom working with DeGregorio, who has been Rams's assistant and is the closest friend of the players in college. Odom was also inspired by maternal grandmother, a nurse who had raised five children and returned to school to get her degree in 1980 at the age of 56.

Odom played a season for Rams at Conference 10 Atlantic, where he averaged 17.6 points per game and led the Rams to the conference championship in 1999. He was awarded as an all-conference honorary team and was named Best Rookie in the Atlantic 10 years. He was named the most valuable player of the Atlantic 10 Tournament after his three-pointer against Temple University in the bell gave the Rams their first A-10 Tournament title.