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Lamar Odom Fighting for his Life

GVC said:
"God" is functioning as a proper noun in his sentence, so it should be capitalized.
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Yeah, I typically capitalize God, just like I do the Flying Spaghetti Monster.
 
carolinajazz said:
"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."

Hof said Odom had been taking herbal Viagra and had drunk part of a bottle of cognac since arriving,

....sounds like Lamar was "never much on thinking.....spent most of his time chasing women and drinking!"
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You are an absolutely abhorrent piece of garbage.
 
Kobe Bryant has not left LO's side since leaving his preseason game Tuesday night.

When he left here in 1999, I was just glad it was not to the Lakers. Anybody but tinsel town's team. Yet it was there that he put his selfless approach to the game to best advantage and it's greatest success. When he emerged as a leader for the Lakers, he filled the role perfectly. Selfless people with hearts of gold can have that kind of effect. The locker room of that team could not have been as tight without the glue that was LO. No surprise that Kobe has not left his side.

He was back here in the Fall of 2013, training for another shot. It was great to see how much he enjoyed being back here. But by then I knew it was a long shot. And I always worried cocaine was right there, ready to derail still another second chance. I pray now that he has a second chance at life itself. And if he survives, that there will still be some quality of life remaining. He's a good, good man. Nothing he's ever done will ever alter that fact. A heart of gold. Plenty of bad guys in this world, LO's one of the real good guys.
 
Some sources are reporting him "brain dead." Khloe may ultimately decide whether to pull the plug as his current legal spouse. Can't wait to watch that episode.
 
good article here from the NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/16/sports/basketball/lamar-odoms-decline-played-out-on-tv.html?_r=0


...Odom welcomed the opportunity to do the show — and the public scrutiny. Knowing his attention and effort sometimes flagged over the course of the season, he hoped the show would help hold him accountable. Even a mini-slump would raise questions about his priorities.

“That’s almost like the added incentive a little bit,” Odom said. “I’ll make sure I remain sharp and stay in the gym, but basketball is basketball. I won’t tire myself out. Of course, if I don’t play well, it’s easy to take a shot at me.”

There was little reason to do so that season, among the finest of Odom’s career. A 6-foot-10 power forward, he set career highs in shooting and 3-point shooting percentage and averaged 14.4 points, 8.7 rebounds and 3.0 assists, contributions that earned him the N.B.A.’s Sixth Man Award.

He did not anticipate what was next.

“When he got traded from the Lakers, I think he took that hard,” said the former N.B.A. player Speedy Claxton, a high school teammate. “He really liked it in L.A. He felt like he had a family there, with the Kardashians. I think that was kind of the start of it, when everything went bad.”
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...Barkley, the former high school teammate, said: “The attention didn’t bother Lamar. It didn’t go to his head. He was always the same person.”

Yet Barkley — a product of public housing, the youngest of nine children — knew that Odom was dealing with tougher circumstances than most. Odom’s father was largely absent. His mother died of cancer when he was 12, and he then lived with his grandmother. It was no secret to Barkley how Odom coped with adversity.

“Basketball, man,” Barkley said. “Basketball. Basketball was his therapy.”
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...Selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the fourth overall pick in 1999, Odom twice violated the league’s drug policy in his first four seasons. Then, in June 2006, his 6-month-old son, Jayden, died of sudden infant death syndrome in New York while Odom was home to attend the funeral of an aunt. (He has two other children from a previous relationship.)

Barkley, who was a first-round pick of the Portland Trail Blazers, wound up spending much of his career overseas. But he and Odom would occasionally reconnect in New York. Odom, Barkley said, always seemed elated to see Barkley’s mother, Shirley, a pastor at God’s Divine Prayer Tabernacle in Brooklyn. Odom would ask her to lay her hands on him and pray for him.

By then, Odom had found a home with the Lakers, fulfilling many of the expectations that had trailed him since high school. But he also seemed to sense that he was vulnerable, too.

A Crushing Trade

When the Lakers traded Odom to the Dallas Mavericks in December 2011, many of those who knew him best feared for his mental health.

“Being with the Lakers meant everything to Lamar,” Charles said, “and Lamar is a very sensitive young man. When he was traded, I said, ‘Oh, my God, you just crushed that kid.’ Like, if you know him, you knew how much it meant for him to be with the Lakers.”
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Gameface said:
You are an absolutely abhorrent piece of garbage.
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Lamar Odom spent more than average American's yearly income at brothel!

Sources are saying that Lamar Odom spent a shocking amount of money at the brothel he was staying at before he was rushed to a Nevada hospital after being found unconscious.

In the days he was at the Love Ranch, Odom is said to have spent $75,000 at the brothel, CNN reported.

Sorry, pal, I'm not cutting this guy any slack! You can make him out to be the innocent victim, enable him all you want.....make all the excuses you can come up with. These and the others are the facts of the matter and that's how many of us feel.
 
He is paying for some young ladies college tuition, good on him.

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carolinajazz said:

Lamar Odom spent more than average American's yearly income at brothel!

Sources are saying that Lamar Odom spent a shocking amount of money at the brothel he was staying at before he was rushed to a Nevada hospital after being found unconscious.

In the days he was at the Love Ranch, Odom is said to have spent $75,000 at the brothel, CNN reported.

Sorry, pal, I'm not cutting this guy any slack! You can make him out to be the innocent victim, enable him all you want.....make all the excuses you can come up with. These and the others are the facts of the matter and that's how many of us feel.
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You are gleeful about a guy being in a coma who at best has brain damage.

You can make all the excuses for your nasty disgusting hatred you want...
 
King Cy said:
I don't pray because God isn't real, but I don't think it's that tough to pray for both if you do that sort of thing.
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Oh snap, if Republicans read here you now face extradition to Canada :(


More serious note: I'm truly puzzled how someone like carolinajazz isn't permanently banned on an allegedly family friendly board. Do you want your kids to read the gospel of a modern age Koo Koo Klan follower?
 
I find it funny (and weird) that people are ganging up on other posters over a guy who apparently is in poor health because of his own decisions.

It is sad that he was clinging to life (before apparently making some progress today) but whether he was depressed or not, whether he had a hard life or not, or whether he is a good soul or not, he made the decisions that lead him to the brothel with drugs while unloading large sums of money on questionable company. Can people not call it like they see it? Should we be praising his actions?

Perhaps I'm jaded, as I used to work in an ICU as a nurse, because I saw this stuff all the time. You can wish them well without condoning their illegal behavior.

Just my 2 cents. Flame away.

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RobDMB said:
I find it funny (and weird) that people are ganging up on other posters over a guy who apparently is in poor health because of his own decisions.

It is sad that he was clinging to life (before apparently making some progress today) but whether he was depressed or not, whether he had a hard life or not, or whether he is a good soul or not, he made the decisions that lead him to the brothel with drugs while unloading large sums of money on questionable company. Can people not call it like they see it? Should we be praising his actions?

Perhaps I'm jaded, as I used to work in an ICU as a nurse, because I saw this stuff all the time. You can wish them well without condoning their illegal behavior.

Just my 2 cents. Flame away.

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I agree completely with what you're saying.

What I don't agree with is people expressing smug satisfaction over something like this.
 
I'm not much of a fan of Odom in any regard, but it is still a tragedy for this to happen. The notion that somehow he's an awful enough person that he deserves not only a coma and brain damage, but also the derision of people that don't really even know him is pathetic.

Some of us are pretty fickle with our compassion.
 
Bronco70 said:
I'm not much of a fan of Odom in any regard, but it is still a tragedy for this to happen. The notion that somehow he's an awful enough person that he deserves not only a coma and brain damage, but also the derision of people that don't really even know him is pathetic.

Some of us are pretty fickle with our compassion.
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I get what you're saying, I think. We aren't qualified to judge him. Is that the gist?

I disagree with the idea that we can be separated totally from our choices. If you make a specific choice many times (example: repeated drug use) you reap the consequences of those decisions and likely become either a habitual user or an addict. I believe in the idea that we reap what we sow. I personally don't find satisfaction in bad things happening to people, but people generally get what they deserve (example: cheat on your girlfriend, she dumps you). In my view it is the natural 'action brings consequence' relationship. It seems like pop culture would have us all believe that we can choose all the consequences to each of our decisions and that anything less calls for litigation of some party. I think that's a bunch of bologna.

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RobDMB said:
I get what you're saying, I think. We aren't qualified to judge him. Is that the gist?

I disagree with the idea that we can be separated totally from our choices. If you make a specific choice many times (example: repeated drug use) you reap the consequences of those decisions and likely become either a habitual user or an addict. I believe in the idea that we reap what we sow. I personally don't find satisfaction in bad things happening to people, but people generally get what they deserve (example: cheat on your girlfriend, she dumps you). In my view it is the natural 'action brings consequence' relationship. It seems like pop culture would have us all believe that we can choose all the consequences to each of our decisions and that anything less calls for litigation of some party. I think that's a bunch of bologna.

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That's not really what I was getting at...

For the most part, I agree with your post. I'm not suggesting Odom is an innocent victim. Obviously, his circumstance is a consequence of his actions. If he's at home reading the Bible, rather than drugging up at a brothel, he's probably still walking around today.

My disappointment is the reaction of some people. I don't think you have to be distraught for Odom, but I think piling on a guy who has already suffered such a mighty consequence speaks to the lack of compassion we have as people anymore.

Whether or not we're qualified to judge is irrelevant. We pass judgement constantly. It doesn't really matter. I just think being self righteous about it is excessive. That's all.
 
Bronco70 said:
That's not really what I was getting at...

For the most part, I agree with your post. I'm not suggesting Odom is an innocent victim. Obviously, his circumstance is a consequence of his actions. If he's at home reading the Bible, rather than drugging up at a brothel, he's probably still walking around today.

My disappointment is the reaction of some people. I don't think you have to be distraught for Odom, but I think piling on a guy who has already suffered such a mighty consequence speaks to the lack of compassion we have as people anymore.

Whether or not we're qualified to judge is irrelevant. We pass judgement constantly. It doesn't really matter. I just think being self righteous about it is excessive. That's all.
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Gotcha. I'm with you... I think. We should not find satisfaction/happiness/vindication in other people's problems.

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