Lamar Odom

Lamar Odom is an NBA star player and a Television actor. He has played for Los Angeles Clippers and Miami Heat and changed the course of the game for these teams. He also played for the United States at the Olympic Games when Olympic Games took place in Athens, Greece. He is famous for his basketball skills but always ended up in some or the other controversies. He also married Khloe Kardashian Khloe was born as Khloe Alexandra Kardashian to an >> Read More... , famous American Television star, which later ended up in a divorce. Lamar Odom was born in New York Click to look into! >> Read More... (Queens). He is the son of Joe Odom and Cathy Mercer.

After his mother’s demise when he was just 12 years old, his grandmother Mildred Mercer raised him. He started playing basketball at an early age of seven and was trained by Jerry DeGregorio while he attended St. Thomas Aquinas High School, New Britain. Because of his game, he was named ‘Player of the Year’ in 1997. He thought of joining NBA after his high school but soon he realized that he was not ready yet and later he joined University of Nevada, Las Vegas Serial Story Coming Soon... >> Read More... . Lamar was then transferred to the University of Rhode Island because of his high ACT score.

In 1999, he finally joined NBA and was selected by Los Angeles Clippers. Lamar Odom started his career as a basketball professionally in the year 1999 whereas he started playing basketball at an early age. He played basketball during his school days too and was named ‘Player of the year’ by different magazines; he also gained some popularity because of this. He first played for Los Angeles Clippers when they were at a losing edge, but after Lamar’s entry into the team, they played well and soon were on the list of top contenders. He was then transferred to Miami Heat and made them win few games.

Later in 2004, he earned a bronze medal at the Olympic Games where he played for the United States. He was soon traded to Los Angeles Lakers where his performance improved, and the team won two NBA championships in the year 2009 and 2010. He played for Los Angeles Lakers from 2004 till 2011. In 2010, he participated in FIBA World Championship where he won a gold medal. Later in the year 2011, he was traded to Dallas Mavericks, but he couldn’t play many games for them. Within just a year, he has again transferred to Los Angeles Clippers and played few games with them where his performance was nominal.

In 2014, he played for Laboral Kutxa Baskonia and New York Knicks for few games. Apart from his professional career, Lamar married Khloe Kardashian in the year 2009 after dating her for some time. With Khloé Kardashian, he made his television appearance and was seen in Keeping Up with the Kardashians. He also had his own Television Reality Show named as ‘Khloé & Lamar’ which first aired in 2011 and continued till 2012 with two seasons. He was later found in many controversies which also included drug abuse. Later in 2015, Khloé and Lamar signed divorce papers, but the final decision has not been made legally. On 13th October 2015, Lamar went into a coma while he was in Nevada brothel while he started responding within four days. His conditions improved with time and currently he his focusing on getting back into his game from which he took a temporary retirement.