Lamar Odom Discussion: Celebrity Boxing?

wow this is crazy

really hope he can pull through this and finally get the help he's needed for a while now. sad to see him on such a downward spiral ever since leaving the lakers

 

Well, f***. We all knew this was coming If he makes it and doesn't do a 180 turnaround, there's no hope for him.
Prayers are with you LO.

 

Coma and failing organs doesn't sound good at all. Hang in there Odom, it's only supposed to be halftime. Way too young for this.

 

This is horrible. I really rooted for him while he was here. I hope he pulls through. I don't know what else to say. I'm bummed out honestly.

 

I know the brothel situation looks bad, but like therealdeal said, he is far from being the only celebrity who has gone to that brothel. It's somewhat famous, I'm pretty sure HBO had a reality series on it.

One of my favorite basketball players of all time. No joke. He was inconsistent, but I loved his game when he was on.

Truly saddened with the news, I really hope he pulls through.

 

Man, this is crazy. Get well, LO,

 

Yeah. Lamar is far from the only Hollywood guy (or regular joe) to show up there.

 

Agreed again. Went through this with a friend. They have to hit rock bottom. It is one of the most helpless things you will ever have the displeasure of experiencing.

 

Yeah that trade ended his NBA career. I love Lamar and I really feel bad about that as a Lakers fan.

 

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LAS VEGAS -- Former NBA and reality TV star Lamar Odom was hospitalized Tuesday after he was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel, authorities said.

A source told ESPN that Odom is fighting for his life and "the next 48 hours are critical."

The Nye County Sheriff's Department will hold a press conference at 7 p.m. ET to provide an update on the situation. Sheriff Sharon A. Wehrly said in a statement Tuesday that authorities were called at about 3:15 p.m. to Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, about 70 miles outside of Las Vegas, for a report of an unresponsive man needing an ambulance.

Odom, 35, was stabilized and taken to Desert View Hospital in nearby Pahrump, the statement said. Officials then tried to have him airlifted to Las Vegas, but the 6-foot-10 Odom was too tall for the helicopter that was available, so he was driven by ambulance to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.

Lakers star Kobe Bryant, who exited Tuesday's exhibition game -- also in Las Vegas -- in the third quarter for a lower leg contusion, visited the hospital, sources told ESPN's Ramona Shelburne. The Los Angeles Daily News reported that Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak visited the hospital as well.

Dennis Hof, who owns Love Ranch and other legal brothels in Nevada, said his staff picked up Odom from a home in Las Vegas on Saturday.

"He just wanted to get away, have a good time and relax,'' Hof told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

Hof said Odom was "happy, he was sleeping every night" while visiting, but two women went to check on Odom on Tuesday afternoon, after not hearing from him since early morning, and they found him face down and unconscious. When they turned him on his side at the direction of a 911 operator, Odom started "throwing up all kinds of stuff."

Dwyane Wade was among several NBA players to offer their support on Twitter:

Lakers coach Byron Scott expressed his support of Odom to the media after the Lakers' 107-100 exhibition loss to the Sacramento Kings.

"Obviously, our hearts and our thoughts and our prayers are with Lamar and his family," Scott said. "It's obviously something that you don't want to hear before the game because I think the people that knew about it, we were all thinking about it. ... I obviously feel for him and hope that he'll be OK."

Lakers guard Nick Young touched on how Odom's ties to the Lakers made Tuesday's news especially difficult on certain members of the organization.

"It's tough. It's tough because these guys were real close to him here, and the Laker family really loved him. For anybody to be down like that and go through so much, it's tough. Your heart goes out to him."

A distraught Metta World Peace, a former teammate of Odom's, was lost for words upon hearing the news about his childhood friend.

"I don't even know what to say. There's not one word that I can say right now that's going to make sense. I don't know what to say right now."

Golden State Warriors interim coach Luke Walton, Odom's Lakers teammate for seven seasons, spoke to the media upon discovering Odom was hospitalized after the Warriors' Tuesday preseason game.

"Lamar is a brother to me. I love that man. My prayers are with him," Walton said.

Odom spent the best years of his career with the Lakers. He won two championship rings, as well as the NBA's sixth man of the year award in 2011.

After seven years in purple and gold, he was crushed in December 2011 when the Lakers attempted to trade him to New Orleans in a multiplayer trade for Chris Paul. Odom eventually went to Dallas in another deal but was out of the NBA just two years later.

Some troubles that Odom met before and during his NBA career appeared to worsen after he left the league. That includes a no-contest plea to drunken driving shortly before his divorce.

Odom most recently played for the Los Angeles Clippers during the 2012-13 season, his second stint with the team. He averaged 4.0 points, 5.9 rebounds and 1.7 assists while playing all 82 games. He became a free agent in July 2013, but no NBA team signed him.

Clippers star Chris Paul said in a statement: "I wanted to extend love and support to one of our NBA brothers, Lamar Odom. We love you, man. Keep fighting. He's a member of this fraternity, our basketball brotherhood, and we love you and we're all there for you, man."

New York Knicks for what remained of the season, but he didn't appear in their final game and was waived that July.

Odom was suspended during the 2000-01 season for violating the NBA's anti-drug policy for the second time in eight months. During the 2010-11 season, a cousin he was close to died, and Odom was a passenger in a vehicle involved in an accident that killed a cyclist in New York.


Odom played one season at Rhode Island before being drafted No. 4 by the Clippers in the first round of the 1999 NBA draft. He was named to the All-Rookie team and played four seasons with the team before becoming a restricted free agent and signing with Miami.

He helped the U.S. win a bronze medal in the 2004 Athens Olympics.

Born Lamar Joseph Odom on Nov. 6, 1979, in New York City, he was raised by his grandmother after his mother died of cancer when he was 12. His father was a drug addict.

In 2006, Odom's 6-month-old son, Jayden, died from SIDS while sleeping in his crib in New York. He has a daughter, Destiny, and a son, Lamar Jr., from a previous relationship.

Information from ESPN.com's Baxter Holmes and Arash Markazi and The Associated Press was used in this report.

 

More hopeful sure, but probably less likely to be true. Poor LO.