Lamar Odom - Basketball Player Biography
Lamar Odom
FULL
NAME Lamar Odom
AKA Lamar Odem
OCCUPATION Basketball Player, Reality Television Star
BORN November 6, 1979 Queens, New York
NATIONALITY American
EDUCATION St. Thomas Aquinas High School
ZODIAC
SIGN Scorpio
Lamar Joseph Odom (born
6 November 1979 is a professional basketball player who plays the United States
as small forward (both the point of attack, as well as the
"initiator" attack that brought the ball) to the club's National
Basketball Association's Los Angeles Lakers.
Lamar Odom was born in
South Jamaica, Queens, New York). His father was a heroin user and his mother
died of colon cancer when she was 12 years old. He was raised by his
grandmother, Mildred.
Lamar Odom Basketball Career
In the first three years
of high school, Odom played for Chris The King Regional High School in Middle
Village, New York. He was sent first to Redemption Christian Academy in Troy,
New York for basketball season and then to St. Thomas Aquinas High School in
New Britain, Connecticut. Odom basketball player named Parade Magazine in 1997.
He was named USA Today All-USA first team as a senior. During his youth, Odom
has played in Elton Brand of Philadepphia 76ers and Ron Artest of the Los
Angeles Lakers on the same AAU team. Los Angeles Lakers In his first year with
the Los Angeles Lakers left shoulder injury that forced him to miss the end of
the 2004-05 NBA season. The Lakers finished out of the playoffs only five times
in franchise history. After the 2004-05 season, the Los Angeles Lakers re-hired
former coach Phil Jackson.
In the first half of the
2005-06 NBA season, Odom appeared inconsistent while playing with the Lakers.
However, as Los Angeles still capable of leading the NBA playoffs, Odom's
performance gradually improved. On the way, he posted consecutive triple-double
for the first time when Laker against the Golden State Warriors and Portland
Trail Blazers. The Lakers have been eliminated in seven games in the first
round of the playoffs against the Phoenix Suns, after defeating the Lakers 3-1.
Fight against injury,
Odom simply dropped in 56 games in the 2006-07 season, but finally reached an
average of 15.9 points and 9.8 rebounds per game. In a rematch of the previous
year's series, the Lakers were again defeated by the Phoenix Suns in the first
round of the 2007 NBA Playoffs.
After the young player
Andrew Bynum knee injury during the 2007-08 NBA season, and Pau Gasol was
acquired by the Lakers midseason, Odom played well, averaging 15.3 points, 12
rebounds, and 4 assists per game [9]. Odom finished the season with 14.2 ppg
10.6 rpg and 3.5 APG. [10] Odom dropped in the final, however, where he
averaged 13.5 points, 9.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game, [11] the Lakers
lost in the 2008 NBA Finals to the Boston Celtics.
Lamar Odom and Khloe Kardashian
Khloe Kardashian finally
officially married to Lamar Odom, a black man, at the residence of his personal
property in Los Angeles, on Sunday afternoon, September 27, 2009.
Promptly at 5:12 pm
local time, Khloe out and walk on the altar accompanied by her stepfather,
Bruce Jenner, clad in a wedding dress design Vera Wang.
according to news
reports, the two siblings, Kim Kardashian and Kourtney Kardashian became the
main companion in the marriage. That was followed by a stepsister Khloe,
Kendall and Kylie Jenner and actress twins, Khadijah and Malika Haqq also
Lauren London as the party bridesmaids.
Cameras E! Channel when
it was shooting a reality show "Keeping Up With the Kardashian" at
once asked to protect the privacy of the couple.
Looked several celebrity
guests in attendance at the center of events such as, Ryan Seacrest, Kelly
Osbourne, Odom's Laker, teammates Kobe Bryant, with his wife Vanessa, Chelsea
Handler, Lara Spencer, Brittny Gastineau and Lala Vazquez.
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