Lamar Odom

Lamar Odom remains one of my favorite basketball puzzles: a six-foot-ten forward with point-guard skills who accepted a bench role and turned it into an art form. Those back-to-back Lakers titles in 2009 and 2010 do not happen without his positional versatility, and the 2011 Sixth Man of the Year award felt like overdue recognition of an ego-free career. What stays with me is the gentleness in his game — fluid, unselfish, almost melancholy — from a kid out of Queens who survived far more off the court than on it. I root for him as a person even more than I admired him as a player.

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Name (English)

Lamar Odom

Name (Japanese)

ラマー・オドム

Reading

らまー・おどむ

Born

November 6, 1979 (age 46)

Origin

Queens, New York, United States

Height

208 cm

Occupation

basketball player

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Scorpio / Goat

High school

Christ the King Regional High School

University

United States Army War College

• Official sitehttps://www.lamarodomonline.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/lamarodom/
• Xhttps://x.com/RealLamarOdom
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar%20Odom
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A9%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%89%E3%83%A0
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q296403

Tags

• New York
• basketball player

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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