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My Take
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.
Overview
Lamar Joseph Odom (born November 6, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player who played for four teams during his 14-year career in the National Basketball Association (NBA), and won back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010 with the Los Angeles Lakers. He was also named NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 2011. In high school, Odom received national player of the year honors from Parade in 1997.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- 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)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Goat
- Origin
- Queens, New York, United States
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 208 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- basketball player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Christ the King Regional High School
- University
- United States Army War College
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-11
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.