OT: Is Lamar Odom a drama queen?

[Bear06]

Well none of this really matters.
He can retire today if he wants and at least still hold up his hand and flaunt the multiple NBA championship rings at the end of the day.
And he can honestly say he was a very major part of those championships sucess.
Thats what will matter the most when sports enthusiasts look back at his NBA career...MOSTLY

I hope he gets his shit right, because he was a great player and he is a good guy.
Everybody has had some sort of issue or another in there lifetime no matter how much sucess they may have accumulated.
The key is to get through them and rebound.
Lamar is capable of just that.
Wish him well.

I don't think he was a great player but he was very good in his prime with the LA Lakers.

 

[Axl Rose]

he has a great skill set for his size

 

[Diddy1122]

Everyone outside of the whole Hollywood mentality seems to love Lamar and back him up 100%. Coaches and players like him, claim he is one of the best locker room guys in the league.

I also think TMZ pulled out some kind of tabloit bullshit on Lamar, by saying he has been on "hardcore drugs" for the last two years. The NBA drug tests a lot, and if he was in rehab, on hardcore drugs for TWO YEARS, TMZ wouldn't be the one breaking the news with NO other respectable sports network reporting the same news. That shit would have been on espn.com/nba not long after the first reports.

Something stinks about all of this news.

Lamar is anything but a drama queen. In fact, like you said, he's well liked around the league. However, make no mistake, Lamar is struggling with drugs. His agent confirmed it. On top of that, he was just arrested for DUI, couldn't perform any sobriety tests, & refused blood tests at the station. All this stems back from the deaths of his nephew & grandfather within a few weeks of each other 2 years ago. Then he was traded to a team he didn't want to play for, which only exacerbated his depression more. I've long suspected Lamar of being a user, based on his past history, though I suspected marijuana not crack. As a recovering addict myself, my heart goes out to him & the struggles he's going to face for the rest of his life now.