Lamar Odom. (Mike Ehrmann/Getty Photos)
Unrestricted free agent forward Lamar Odom has reportedly checked himself right into a drug and alcohol rehabilitation center, based on Folks.com.
“He realized he wants assist,” a supply told People’s Jennifer Garcia.
When this realization occurred stays unclear, however any motion based mostly on it had to have been pretty current. As TMZ notes, Odom “was seen out in public” over the lengthy Labor Day weekend after being arrested early Friday morning on suspicion of driving beneath the affect of “alcohol and/or drugs.” The 33-yr-outdated ahead was released on $15,000 bail and had his driver’s license suspended for one 12 months for refusing a chemical take a look at at the time of his booking.
The DUI arrest came on the heels of multiple studies that the 14-12 months NBA veteran — who performed last season for the Los Angeles Clippers, and who won two NBA titles and the NBA’s 2011 Sixth Man of the Yr Award with the Los Angeles Lakers — has used crack cocaine, OxyContin and Ambien lately, and had gone missing for 3 days after a reported attempt at an intervention by wife Khloe Kardashian-Odom did not take.
Odom’s agent, Jeff Schwartz, refuted those experiences, saying that Odom’s wife knew “precisely” where he was and that enjoying within the NBA for the 2013-14 season was “nonetheless very much a part of Lamar’s plans.” ESPN subsequently reported that Odom had holed up in an L.A. lodge, where several pals have been making an attempt to assist him take care of “an unspecified drug drawback.” After that, the DUI arrest; after that, the reported entry to an unspecified rehab heart. (Odom had “reluctantly agreed to go to rehab in San Diego a year ago.. though he bailed after [three] weeks,” in response to TMZ.)
Odom’s latest troubles symbolize the most recent entries in an usually-harrowing, at-instances heartening story described in a succinct sweep by the great Lee Jenkins in a 2009 Sports Illustrated feature:
The happiest Laker is the one whose father was addicted to heroin, whose mom died of colon most cancers when he was 12, who attended three excessive colleges, had his first faculty scholarship revoked earlier than the autumn semester of his freshman 12 months, became a topic of three school investigations, declared for the NBA draft, tried unsuccessfully to tug out of the draft, was picked by arguably the worst franchise in sports, violated the league’s antidrug coverage twice inside eight months and after lastly getting his life together, went house to New York Metropolis for an aunt’s funeral and wound up burying his 6½-month-outdated son, then getting robbed at gunpoint.
The off-court woes solely mounted over the years, with the summer of 2011 proving particularly tumultuous, as Odom watched his cousin die after being shot within the head and was a passenger in an SUV that was concerned in an accident that killed a 15-yr-outdated cyclist.
Shortly thereafter, Odom was included in a blockbuster commerce that will have brought Chris Paul to the Lakers and sent Odom to the New Orleans Hornets; when that deal was vetoed by NBA Commissioner David Stern, Odom, apparently feeling betrayed, reportedly demanded that Lakers basic supervisor Mitch Kupchak trade him, leading to his shipment to the Dallas Mavericks in exchange for a 2012 first-spherical draft pick and an $eight.9 million trade exception. That went horribly, for any of a variety of reasons, resulting in the Mavericks sending Odom packing with no playoff share.
Odom caught back on with the Clippers last season, but he was fairly darn terrible offensively, offering manufacturing poor enough to undercut the fact that he was a official helper on the defensive end. Even when Odom’s world was in order this offseason, he’d doubtless be having a tough time finding a gradual gig for subsequent season, no matter what his last head coach has to say about what he’s got left within the tank.. and it now appears pretty clear that Odom’s world is something but in order.
Later in his 2009 SI story, Jenkins wrote that Odom had reconnected along with his father, Joe; years earlier than, Odom famous that he thought about his father’s habit throughout the early years of his career, like when he obtained a 5-game suspension in 2001, during his first stint with the Clippers, after violating the league’s anti-drug policy twice in an eight-month span. He “tearfully admitted to smoking marijuana” at the time.
“Numerous times I might think about it and say, ‘Damn, am I combating my father’s demons with this?’” Odom said in a 2003 Miami Herald interview. “I just could not control myself in L.A. I look again at it, the lifestyle that I was dwelling and the things I had access to, it might have been one thing else.”
We do not know but for sure whether Odom’s verify-in is pegged to “one thing else,” or booze, or weed, or a combination of all the above; all we all know is that he’s apparently made the decision to hit the brakes and get some help. Here is hoping that, amid the storm clouds which have long since gathered over Odom, that selection represents one thing of a silver lining.. or, for those who’d prefer a unique metaphor, a ray of light at the end of what appears like a reasonably dark tunnel.
Lamar Odom checks into rehab for drug and alcohol abuse
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