Lamar Odom is an American basketball player who is familiar for playing 7 seasons with the Los Angeles Lakers and for his wedding to reality star Khloé Kardashian.
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Lamar Odom born on 6 Nov 1979, in Queens, New York. Lamar Odom used basket ball to help him all the way through a traumatic childhood. As a high school be prominent, he was titeld Player of the Year by Parade publication. After declaring his eligibility for the National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft subsequent his freshman year of college, he was chosen by the struggling Los Angeles Clippers. A subsequent stint with the Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat, Odom was trade back to the “Los Angeles Clippers”. slight of basketball, he is well-known for his …show more content…
His Dad, Joseph, was a stop veteran and heroin fanatic. his mom, Cathy Mercer, with whom he was very close, growth him as a single parent. A corrections and traffic police officer, Mercer was indomitable that her son stays off the hazardous streets where they lived. Lamar Odom had been popularize to basketball at around age seven, and trained hard to be good at the game he loved.
Basketball fit equally Lamar Odom’s physicality and his rising athletic skill, but a disaster hit him early in life. Lamar Odom’s mom died of colon cancer when he was twelve years old. He was then sent to live with his granny, Mildred Mercer, who forced him to focus on his studies and sports in an attempt to keep him off the streets.
In high school, Lamar Odom was receiving national attention. Lamar Odom attended Christ the King High School in Queens and salvation Christian Academy in Troy, New York, then gamble in New Britain for St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Connecticut, throughout his senior year. throughout this time, he was titled "Player of the Year" by Parade publication, as well as to USA Today's All-USA First
Synopsis
Lamar Odom born on 6 Nov 1979, in Queens, New York. Lamar Odom used basket ball to help him all the way through a traumatic childhood. As a high school be prominent, he was titeld Player of the Year by Parade publication. After declaring his eligibility for the National Basketball Association (NBA) Draft subsequent his freshman year of college, he was chosen by the struggling Los Angeles Clippers. A subsequent stint with the Dallas Mavericks, Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat, Odom was trade back to the “Los Angeles Clippers”. slight of basketball, he is well-known for his …show more content…
His Dad, Joseph, was a stop veteran and heroin fanatic. his mom, Cathy Mercer, with whom he was very close, growth him as a single parent. A corrections and traffic police officer, Mercer was indomitable that her son stays off the hazardous streets where they lived. Lamar Odom had been popularize to basketball at around age seven, and trained hard to be good at the game he loved.
Basketball fit equally Lamar Odom’s physicality and his rising athletic skill, but a disaster hit him early in life. Lamar Odom’s mom died of colon cancer when he was twelve years old. He was then sent to live with his granny, Mildred Mercer, who forced him to focus on his studies and sports in an attempt to keep him off the streets.
In high school, Lamar Odom was receiving national attention. Lamar Odom attended Christ the King High School in Queens and salvation Christian Academy in Troy, New York, then gamble in New Britain for St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Connecticut, throughout his senior year. throughout this time, he was titled "Player of the Year" by Parade publication, as well as to USA Today's All-USA First