Lamar Odom Discussion: Celebrity Boxing?

I haven't lost a child but I have lost my dad too..and several uncles. And I had to move to Germany when I was 10 and lived 7 years in a refugee camp. And I'm not doing drugs, I'm doing just fine.

Odom has had some tough things to overcome. But human nature is made to overcome those.

There are 8 billion people in the world...and almost everyone (lets be conservative) has lost loved ones too or is fighting all day just to find enough food to survive or has a lethal diseases or is physically handicapped etc. Life is tough. But Odom has all the resources and opportunities to seek help and he doesn't.

There is no excuse for this...not anymore. There was at the beginning but coming out of the brothel, all credit is gone. Its solely on him now.

 

But everyone reacts to things differently. Some people are more sensitive than others. Some people just take things harder than others and there is nothing they can do to change that. it's just the way they were born. I myself am a little cold. When something happens to me that's horrible I react by pushing it to the back of my mind and ignoring it (I know that's not healthy, Punk-101 ), but other people wear their heart on their sleeve. I'm just saying the dude has been through a ton. Sounds like you have too and there are other people like you who have been through a lot and came out the other side. That's great. But things happen in between those moments that can make or break you too. There might have been someone who said the right things to you at the right time that you may not even really notice or realize, but had the wrong thing been said to you at the wrong time, it could have changed everything.

 

Every time this thread is bumped I fully expect to click on it to find out that he's died

 

...last night watched the 30 For 30 documentary on Strawberry and Gooden. Two individuals with the same troubles with addictions. Strawberry seems to have righted himself while Gooden still struggles with his but both have stayed out of trouble. No reason Odom can't do the same.

 

It's sad watching one of my favorite ex players going through something like this so publicly.

I hope he can get his life together

 

I'm actually encouraged. He had the foresight that his child's birthday could trigger a relapse and is seeking help.

As with anyone battling addiction and/or mental health, I hope he finds the help he needs.

 

Wish him all the best, the encouraging thing about this time is it was him checking in, voluntarily. Nobody dragged him, he's not in denial if he checked himself in, there's still hope.

 

I love the idea of giving Odom a chance on our staff because it gives him a purpose and something to build on. With that said I don't have a clue what his specialty would be or what he would be doing in general that MWP isn't already doing.

 

Odom was a great help defender, whereas Metta was a great individual defender. Odom can probably also teach something about body positioning and rebounding. We have guys who play similarly to Odom in many respects, notably Randle and Ingram. They have a lot of aspects of their game resembling Odom's.