Today, my body is healthy, my mind is at peace, I love my children and they love me. Thats it. It's the ONLY thing that matters in my life today. What is accomplishment to you? And why? Fears are lies. Voices in your head that will tell you to give up. Voices telling you that you can't and won't. The biggest battle I fought in life is the fight against my fears. Who knows? I believed I could and I did!
Lamar Odom is sitting in front of me but his mind is somewhere else. Just named a co-captain along with Gilbert Arenas for Enemies , a team in the BIG 3 league , Odom is having a difficult time collecting his thoughts when asked about returning to professional basketball for the first time in five years.
My short-term memory is really bad. I think I need to go see a doctor at some point and see if I can work on that. Odom was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel four years ago this October and was in critical condition at the Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas. As he sits in a hotel room five miles from the hospital, Odom says he suffered 12 strokes and six heart attacks while in a coma, and doctors had all but pronounced him dead to friends and family who came to see him for what they thought would be the last time.
I think my will is even stronger than I believed it was. I never thought I would play basketball again or talk to you. Just to be here is a win for me. The movements that came so naturally as a 6-foot, pound forward who could also play the point are no longer there. It was just so natural for me. It was a mismatch for me with my size to be able to put the ball on the floor the way I did. He planned to enter the Chinese Basketball Association but was again advised against it due to lack of fitness.
Many have also congratulated him on his relatively short but illustrious basketball career. Boxing has helped him a lot in his recovery.
The key is to stay calm and never lose faith, he reiterates. He had a solid season compared to his sub-par season with the Clippers the previous year. In his first year with the Los Angeles Lakers, Odom incurred a left shoulder injury which forced him to miss the end of the —05 NBA season. Despite Odom averaging Following the —05 season, they re-hired former coach Phil Jackson. In the first half of the —06 NBA season, Odom displayed inconsistency while playing with the Lakers.
However, as Los Angeles progressed towards the end of the season, his performance steadily improved. Along the way, he posted consecutive triple-doubles for the first time as a Laker against the Golden State Warriors and Portland Trail Blazers. The Lakers were eliminated in 7 games in the first round of the playoffs against the Phoenix Suns, after the Lakers lost a 3—1 series lead. Battling injuries, Odom was limited to 56 games in the —07 season, but finished with an average of In a rematch of the previous year's series, the Lakers were again defeated by the Phoenix Suns in the first round of the NBA Playoffs.
After young center Andrew Bynum went down with a knee injury during the —08 NBA season, and Pau Gasol was acquired by the Lakers midseason,[34] Odom played well, averaging Odom finished the season with Odom's numbers were down in the Finals, however, where he averaged At the beginning of the —09 NBA season, Odom was moved to the bench and served as a sixth man, backing up the Lakers' frontcourt of Gasol and Bynum.
When Bynum was injured in a game against the Memphis Grizzlies in January, Odom returned to the starting lineup. In the month of February, Odom, playing 36 minutes per game, averaged With 15 points in the 3rd quarter, Odom helped the Lakers out of a point deficit to turn it into a point victory, breaking Cleveland's 23 game home win-streak.
He finished the game with 28 points, 17 rebounds and 2 assists. Odom adjusted back to his sixth man role when Bynum returned for an April 9 home matchup versus the Denver Nuggets. Odom finished his season with During the Los Angeles Lakers off-season as a free agent, Odom was courted heavily by the Miami Heat, the team that traded him to the Lakers in Odom continued his strong play for the Lakers with another solid season in the —11 season where he posted career highs in 3 point shooting percentage.
He started 35 games in Bynum's absence during the season and averaged In 47 games off the bench, Odom averaged Meeting the requirement to come in as a reserve more games than he started, Odom was awarded the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award, becoming the first player in Lakers history to do so.
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