Lamar Odom

Lamar Odom
Player information
Full name	Lamar Joseph Odom
Nickname	LO, Candy Man, The Goods
birthday	6th November 1979 (age 40)
place of birth	Queens , New York , United States
size	208 cm
Weight	104 kg
position	Small forward / power forward
High school	St. Thomas Aquinas, Connecticut
college	Rhode Island
NBA draft	1999 , 4th pick, Los Angeles Clippers
Clubs as active
1999–2003 Los Angeles Clippers 2003–2004 Miami Heat 2004–2011 Los Angeles Lakers 2011–2012 Dallas Mavericks 2012–2013 Los Angeles Clippers 2014 Laboral Kutxa 00000
National team
2004-2010	United States

Lamar Joseph Odom (born November 6, 1979 in New York City , New York ) is a retired American basketball player who was active in the NBA between 1999 and 2013 . With a height of 2.08 meters, Odom was used in both forward positions. During his career he was regarded as a versatile player who, for his size, had very good ball handling and game overview. Odom was never called up to the NBA All-Star Game , but won the 2011 NBA Sixth Man of the Year award .

Career

Early years

Odom was born in the South Jamaica neighborhood of Queens , New York. His birth father was a drug addict and his mother died when Lamar was twelve years old. He was raised by his grandmother, Mildred. He attended Christ The King Regional High School in Middle Village, New York for three years before moving to Redemption Academy in Troy, New York and from there to St. Thomas Aquinas High School in New Britain, Connecticut. In 1997 he was named Parade Magazine Player of the Year and, as a senior, was named to the USA Today All-USA First Team.

Odom chose the University of Nevada in Las Vegas (UNLV) in 1997 . The NCAA rules prohibit universities from paying financial compensation to their basketball players for their services. When it was revealed that Odom but from a University officer had received money, the coach of the team, Bill Bayno was fired, the university was only approved for parole in the NCAA four years and Odom then moved up to the University of Rhode Iceland , had but suspend the 1997/98 season. Odom played for his new university team for a season.

Los Angeles Clippers (1999 to 2003)

Odom was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the fourth pick in the 1999 NBA Draft . In his first season, he scored 16.6 points, 7.8 rebounds and 4.2 assists per game and was elected to the 2000 NBA All-Rookie First Team .

In November 2001, he was suspended from the NBA for eight games for two-time anti-drug abuse. His points and rebound cut fell in the following two seasons and he was signed as a so-called Restricted Free Agent by the Miami Heat in the summer of 2003 .

Miami Heat (2003 to 2004)

Lamar Odom became part of the team the same year that Dwyane Wade was selected by the Miami Heat in the draft. Odom was able to increase his performance on the field to 17.1 points, 9.7 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 1.1 steals and 0.9 blocks per game and led his team together with Wade in the playoffs. That year he also played for the United States national team in the Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal with the selection.

Los Angeles Lakers (2004 to 2011)

Odom was given to the Los Angeles Lakers along with Caron Butler and Brian Grant in exchange for Shaquille O'Neal . In his first year, Odom suffered a serious shoulder injury and had to sit out the last third of the season. The Lakers missed the playoffs and brought their former coach Phil Jackson back on board after this season .

In the following NBA season his performance on the field was far from constant, but he steadily improved. He was able to achieve a triple-double in two consecutive games . In the playoffs, however, the Lakers were eliminated by the Phoenix Suns in the first round after seven games . In the 2006/07 season Odom had to fight again with injuries and in the playoffs the Lakers failed again at the Suns. The 2007/08 NBA season had some surprises in store for Odom: The Lakers secured the services of Pau Gasol , the young center Andrew Bynum had to sit out due to a knee injury and so Odom was used very versatile. The team reached the NBA Finals , but had to give up there defeated the Boston Celtics .

In the 2008/09 season , Odom was shipped to the bank and used as the so-called Sixth Man . He was mostly substituted on for Gasol and / or Bynum. When Bynum was injured again in January 2009, Odom was brought back to the starting line-up. After Bynum's return in April, Odom was brought back into the game by the bank. At the end of the season, he could look back on 11.3 points, 8.2 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.7 blocks and 1.0 steal per game. This season Odom was able to win his first NBA championship with the Lakers . After the season, he extended his contract with the Lakers for four years for a total of $ 33 million. The following season, 2009/10 , Odom secured the championship again with the Lakers. In the 2010/11 season , Odom received the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award , making it the best substitute. He was the first Lakers player to receive this award.

Odom won the basketball world championship with the US national team in the summer of 2010 .

Dallas Mavericks (2011-2012)

The Dallas Mavericks announced on December 10, 2011 that Odom would be joining the reigning champions from Texas for the new season. He performed poorly earlier in the season after losing his cousin during the summer break and also sitting in a car that ran over a youth. That's why he originally wanted to take a break. On March 2, 2012, he was sent by the Mavs to the Texas Legends , but brought back only a day later. In early April 2012, the Mavericks separated from Odom, but without firing him.

Los Angeles Clippers (2012-2013)

On June 29, it was officially confirmed that Odom will return to the Clippers. He was transferred to Los Angeles as part of an exchange between the Clippers , Jazz , Rockets and the Mavs. With the Clippers, Odom could not meet the expectations placed in him. With 4.0 points and 5.9 rebounds per game, he played the weakest season of his career to date.

Move to Spain (2014)

After the season, Odom became a free agent . Although there was interest between the Clippers and Odom in a further collaboration, no agreement was reached. On February 18, 2014 Odom signed a contract with the Spanish first division club Laboral Kuxta . He only played two games for the club before being sacked.

New York Knicks (2014)

In April 2014 it was announced that Lamar Odom had been signed by the Knicks for several years. However, he did not complete an NBA game for the Knicks and was fired two months later.

Return to the field

In June 2019, he returned to the field almost four years after his collapse in the 3-on-3 league Big3 .

Private life

• Odom has three children, two sons and a daughter. His daughter was born in 1998 and his son in 2002. His second son, who was born in December 2005, died in his bed on June 28, 2006 of sudden infant death at the age of six months.

• Odom is known for his love of sweets. The Wrigley company made a duplicate of the NBA championship trophy for him, which consisted only of candy, after the Los Angeles Lakers won the championship in 2009.

• After only four weeks of relationship, Odom married Khloé Kardashian on September 27, 2009 .

• Early in the morning on August 30, 2013, Odom was arrested for driving under the influence of psychoactive substances and released the same day on bail of $ 15,000 . He was sentenced to three years probation and had to undergo addiction treatment.

• On October 13, 2015, Odom was found unconscious after consuming cocaine and large quantities of sexual enhancers in the Love Ranch brothel in the state of Nevada and was admitted to hospital in critical condition. Artificial ventilation could only be stopped after four days. He was able to leave the hospital for the first time three months later.

• In 2019, he revealed his sex addiction in his autobiography Darkness to Light . He slept with over 2000 women.

Web links

Commons : Lamar Odom  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Lamar Odom - player profile on NBA.com
• Lamar Odom - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• Lamar Odom's US Olympic Team organic

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.sport1.de/de/basketball/newspage_859564.html Sport1
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} nba.com: Player biography ( memento of the original dated December 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ Sport's Illustrated: Another Sunny Day In Lamar's LA , March 23, 2009
4. ^ New York Daily News: ODOM IS ON RIGHT RHODE TO SUCCESS , Nov. 1, 1998
5. ^ Review Journal: NCAA reveals inquiry of UNLV , March 15, 2000
6. ↑ ^{a b c} nba.com: career statistics ( memento of the original from July 2, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ nba.com: Lakers Acquire Odom, Butler, Grant and a Future First Rounder for Shaq , October 7, 2004
8. ↑ NBA Finals 2009 ( Memento of the original from June 22, 2013 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
9. ↑ espn.com: Odom, Lakers agree on deal , July 31, 2009
10. ↑ NBA Playoffs 2010
11. ↑ NBA News Best sixth man ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. Jump up ↑ The World: Dallas Get Odom , December 11, 2011
13. ↑ relevant.at - NBA: Odom considered taking a year off or longer , accessed on February 2, 2012
14. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ↑ Nowitzkis Club Fires Transferflop Odom , accessed April 4, 2012
16. ↑ Odom back in Los Angeles ( Memento of the original from March 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed June 30, 2012 
17. ↑ Odom signs with the Pleiß Club
18. ↑ Odon receives contract with the Knicks ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
19. ↑ Ryan Gaydos: Lamar Odom scores two points in Big3 basketball debut. June 24, 2019. Retrieved June 30, 2019 (American English). 
20. ↑ espn.com: Lakers' Odom still mourning sudden death of infant son , September 28, 2006
21. ↑ LA Times: The Finals, where delicious happens , June 12, 2009
22. ↑ Yes to Lamar , September 28, 2009
23. ↑ http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nba/story/_/id/9615771/lamar-odom-arrested-suspicion-dui ESPN LA: Lamar Odom arrested on DUI charge
24. ↑ Lamar Odom, ex-NBA player and reality TV star, found unconscious at brothel. Retrieved October 14, 2015 . 
25. ↑ "I've been obsessed with sex for as long as I can remember"