http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13902999/lamar-odom-conscious-breathing-own-las-vegas-hospital

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If true sounds like an OD. Hopefully he recovers from this and it's rock bottom. Hope some of his former friends and teammates reach out.


EXCLUSIVE
LAMAR ODOM
FIGHTING FOR HIS LIFE
FOUND UNCONSCIOUS AT NEVADA BROTHEL

10/13/15 8:27 PM PST

139 Lamar Odom is fighting for his life after falling into unconsciousness at Dennis Hof's Love Ranch South in Pahrump, Nevada ... TMZ Sports has learned.

Sources at the Love Ranch tell us ... 35-year-old Odom arrived at the Ranch Saturday and was partying with the girls for days. A source at the Ranch said Lamar was taking an herbal substitute for Viagra.

We spoke with Hof ... who tells us Tuesday afternoon, a woman went into Odom's room in the VIP suites and found him unconscious.

We're told the woman began screaming for the manager -- who called 911.

The manager rolled Lamar over on his side and saw "mucus-type liquid coming out of his nose ad mouth."

An ambulance took Lamar to Pahrump hospital, where doctors intubated him ... an indication he could not breathe on his own.

We're told Lamar is being airlifted from the hospital to Las Vegas for more treatment.

Our sources tell us, "It's not good."

We're told Lamar had been partying at the ranch by himself -- with no friends or entourage -- and is now alone at the hospital.

The ranch staff says they want to be in the room with Lamar but since they're not allowed since they're not family.

Story developing ...

Fucking shit

Sounds very, very bad.

This is rough.

Come on man

I hope he's able o pull out of this

@billoram: Reports of Odom's hospitalization have reached the Lakers locker room, with staffers trying to find out to which hospital he's being taken

Partying for days with dope and whores sounds cool, but doing it alone until you OD and get airlifted to the hospital sounds like a real high killer.

I hope he has a friend that prays for him. That is a terrible deal.

He's been through enough, he needs some good in his life

This is bad. Such a horrible story.

Now I wish I could just not do the morbid checking of TMZ. They're the worst and I hate supporting them.

fuck you, cook for you and make you drinks for days?

Not that I'm interested or anything.

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That "reported" this. A lot of people got tricked.

Lamar was always one of my favorite Lakers... this is really heartbreaking to hear. Hope he pulls through and gets his head right after this.

Crossing fingers...

Khloe Kardashian reportedly rushes to Lamar Odom's side with family members and a camera crew http://t.co/KqkI9M4Awf

http://t.co/ag7FY8bmBT


This family is a scourge.


Speedy recovery to L.O.

>This family is a scourge.

Good fucking grief. Ship the lot of em to some discrete island

in any event, I get how the cameras are a part of their life at this point so if THEIR family has some tragedy happening that they want filmed more power to them. But show some respect to the Odom family tho.

1) This will be rock bottom for Lamar Odom and he pulls through this latest mishap with support from former teammates.

2) Harden pulls the ripcord, pushes the eject button, and jettisons himself away from that E! Channel driven madness. That's beyond sickening assuming that's actually true.

They're far from the biggest problem Lamar has. In fact, when they were married he was arguably his most productive.

i dont doubt what you said about him being his most productive when he was with her...

it sounds like he needed some sort of family structure

being rushed to the ER from a sleazy Nevada brothel would make me think he was feeling pretty desolate

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how the fucking hell did Lamar get to this?? i always thought he was against this shit bcz of his dad...this is fkd up

He's self medicated for years now, and it's what drove him out of the league.

but yeah sounds like dude may be dealing with brain damage if he does pull through. terrible.

tragic

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Jesse Jackson: "Doctors felt he is much better off today than he was yesterday. At least there is some responsiveness now."

(Lil Wayne)...and Jesse Jackson is known to lie and make things about himself?

TMZ is saying he was in the room for 3 minutes and he's unresponsive, Jackson says he was in there for 30 and he IS responsive.

I hope I'm wrong, I really do...but I don't think we have the same definitions of "responsive". Also him saying "Well, there are tubes..." makes me think that he is knowingly exaggerating how responsive LO was.

the things people are saying about him are above and beyond what you normally here. i hope that love helps him pull through here.

I have a buddy who covered the Lakers through the whole Shaq/Kobe, Kobe/Pau eras. He told me he was in the locker room pregame before the Lakers beat Orlando for the title in 09 and he asked LO and Fish if they had a sense of what was likely to happen in that locker room in a few hours. Odom just broke down crying, and really opened up about what it meant to him to have the opportunity. He would be loose, too, once he was asked why he went to Rhode Island and he responded by joking "When I signed my rookie contract, I took a pay cut."

Fans loved him too and he was one of the few guys around the Lakers practice facility that had time for them. He was always willing to stop and chat, sign stuff, very personable. You got the sense, and I know this will sound weird under the circumstances, that appreciated what he had and sure as hell remembered where he came from to get it.

I mean obviously his private hell has touched people close to him but you got the sense that he was a positive, sincere person despite all the shit he had been through and was still going through.

For those that don't know Torre just did a great piece on Harden which has tidbits of Chloe

http://espn.go.com/espn/feature/story/_/id/13869848/rockets-guard-james-harden-found-place-excel-show-strengths-houston
I recommend the read. It actually paints harden in a weird-not so likable light imo.

Anyhow here is the ATH behind the scenes:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IHgznIGb6pA

People on Reddit saying they wish the show was more like this than actual ATH.
They must have some gold in the vaults of their behind the scenes footage.

I've been trying so hard not to think about this situation...this dude was the heart of our Lakers squads man, he was the bridge between all the players. Honestly haven't heard a single person talk bad about this dude. He's been through so many tragedies and has so many demons, and the emotion/sincerity which made him so loved often can lead to an unraveling as well.

Please pull through man...let this be rock-bottom but survive it. We're all pulling for you man, please.

I just lost a very close friend yesterday. I wouldn't go so far as to call it a similar situation, but a guy who was magnetic and everyone loved him, and yet he fell to a lot of demons. It was after a 3 year vegetative state, or a coma depending on who you ask.

Not that I knew, or even met Lamar, but it's similar enough to really strike a chord with me, and it's fucking awful.

I want him to pull through this so badly.

so afraid the nexxt thing i hear is hes gone..he doesnt deserve to go out this way at all after all the shit hes been thru..

i had been meaning to ask you but from the last time we talked about it i had a feeling it was nothing but bad news. that's horrible, peace and strength to his family.

Obviously I don't know what your friend went through but I have 2 very personal accounts of people battling addiction, been through (still going through) lots of ups and downs. You sincerely don't realize just how vicious and brutal that cycle is until you see it....and with Lamar, that's a dude who has been through so ridiculously much...my heart goes out to you Ryan, sincerely.

https://twitter.com/MagicJohnson/status/654368610626830336

>https://twitter.com/MagicJohnson/status/654368610626830336


LO has his demons....But dude seems to have a good heart....Hope he pulls through this.....

http://www.tmz.com/2015/10/15/master-p-kobe-bryant-phony-lamar-odom/

This idiot is clearly looking for attention...stop giving it to him.

i disagree.

You're making a lot of nonsensical statements in here. You should prob quit now.

he was asked a question, and he answered.

if his opinion was wrong, and nothing could have been done, is kobe's idea to "just pray" any better?

it may be nonsensical to you, but i disagree.

Watch this video and then get the entire fuck out of here.

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhg6BEF6CYM983QyTJ

>Watch this video and then get the entire fuck out of here.

>http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhg6BEF6CYM983QyTJ

i've already seen this.

Basketball alone likely wouldn't have saved Lamar. Someone who is suffering from an addiction needs time to examine the whole of their life and to find a way to heal from their grief. Basketball would have only distracted him from the care he needs.

And that's me ignoring the "Kobe owns the team" bullshit that's been deaded since the Kidd for Bynum video.

cause an "earnest hope or wish" really changes things, right?

>cause I really hope or wish you did, right?

is there more?

>is there more?

there's more than just pray

>>is there more?
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>there's more than just pray

that was the gist, no?

>>>is there more?
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>>there's more than just pray
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>that was the gist, no?

no

>>>>is there more?
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>>>there's more than just pray
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>>that was the gist, no?
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>no

help me out, then.

>>>>>is there more?
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>>>>there's more than just pray
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>>>that was the gist, no?
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>>no
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>help me out, then.

https://twitter.com/kobebryant/status/654761586595266560

niga im surehe couldve been helped...stfu...wtf did you do for lamar since yall so close??? im not the biggest kobe fan..BUT YOU DONT KNOW ETF KOBE DID OR TRIED....

not to get all gd in here, but we are now the faces of many things that are not originated by us.

-gun violence
-domestic violence
-sexual assaults
-drug addiction
-beheadings

now, all of a sudden, it's the black guys who need viagra.

right.

>now, all of a sudden, it's the black guys who need viagra.

right.

& how you didn't see it coming.

Can we leave the agendas out of this situation?

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From where?

i don't understand your reply.

>From where?

or this question....

that he overdosed on viagra?

and niggas be purchasing

i'm talking abt how when nefarious shit happens, faces of color are constantly the examples used.

we should not be the posterboys of all bad things and shit that was not created for us to utilize constructively.

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not even in strictly a sports sense, just something about him made me want to see him succeed. i haven't been following up since it's a little much for me. i hope he makes it through

one of those guys when you see him play its like the possibilities are endless. but its only every now and then that you get to reap the benefits of his amazing skillset.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zlo2bG5vBs

seems unnecessary. That was savage, though.

people who are reality tv fans might look at sports as being silly just like sports fans might look at reality tv as being silly.

plus if it wasn't for the Kardashians and the show, Odom wouldn't even be getting the coverage that he's getting.

>people who are reality tv fans might look at sports as being
>silly just like sports fans might look at reality tv as being
>silly.

>plus if it wasn't for the Kardashians and the show, Odom
>wouldn't even be getting the coverage that he's getting.

the last part is debatable tho.

She hadn't heard about it but immediately asked, Is he dead? Just because she'd seen how depressed and spiraling down he was on the show.
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kardashians be damned.

only knows who lamar is bc of kardashians (if they know who he is)

you think there'd be up to the second updates on another out of the nba, never an all star, not in the media spotlight (bc LO hasn't exactly been relevant aside from the KArdashians and drug news the last few years)?

Like if LO is a household name its bc of the kardashians...just like non sports fan females know who James HArden, Frnech, and Kris humphries are bc of the kardashians.

>you think there'd be up to the second updates on another out
>of the nba, never an all star, not in the media spotlight (bc
>LO hasn't exactly been relevant aside from the KArdashians and
>drug news the last few years)?

>Like if LO is a household name its bc of the
>kardashians...just like non sports fan females know who James
>HArden, Frnech, and Kris humphries are bc of the kardashians.

i know that certain folks jump at the opportunity of making other folks look bad or worse.

and i know that only a selective few have such resources to do this effectively.

LO wasn't a household name before Khloe, sorry.

This could happen to current dudes in the league and it wouldn't be as big a deal outside of sports world.

you don't really believe that.

this is where the scapegoat part comes in.

you don't have to be atall famous to be one of those.

scapegoat crap lol

>scapegoat crap lol

ok.

http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/cnn-mistakes-lamarcus-aldridge-for-lamar-odom-during-live-coverage-20151510

They've been atrocious lately on several fronts

makes stupid mistakes like that on purpose.

if it really is incompetence, then that's even worse.

And white people on the sidelines laughing and entertained

Our race is doomed if this is how it's gonna go



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http://espn.go.com/nba/story/_/id/13902999/lamar-odom-conscious-breathing-own-las-vegas-hospital

Bobbi Kristina thing went back and forth.

Shelburne and TMZ link

THIS JUST IN: Lamar Odom is conscious, breathing on his own in Las Vegas hospital. (via @ramonashelburne)

http://www.tmz.com/2015/10/16/lamar-odom-life-support-ventilator/

everytime i see this post upped I get a little nervous

I'm absolutely sure its been as peaceful environment for their recovery than before all this

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2015/10/21/lamar-odom-khloe-kardashian-call-off-divorce/74343594/

http://i57.tinypic.com/2yo3j46.jpg

http://tinyurl.com/pfdxkt3

Dude needs a peaceful, restorative situation...not this Kardashian BS.

i was trying (and maybe failing LOL) to disprove his illogical statement

point being, none of us knows what's best for him...it's best for him to choose his own life and deal with what comes from that choice. maybe they really do love each other and he literally had trouble functioning without her in his life..who knows? sometimes near-death experiences inspire folks to live differently/better...

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In my line of work, I have to be well acquainted with addiction research and understanding, particularly as it pertains to medications. From my understanding of the situation, his spiral began while he was still in that marriage and much of that stemmed from all of the media attention...that's why I am concerned about him getting back together with her and having those same triggers back in his life. The OD obviously happened afterward, but what is of most concern is what started his path to that point....

Which is a GOOD THING. Addicts don't need these major changes when they're so new in recovery. They shouldn't get divorced, and they shouldn't get back together. Sounds like Khloe is just there to be with him, which ultimately is good.

good for them if that's what's going to help.

Good for him

i really hope not, but this dude doesn't want to live. clearly. at this point, i'm already mentally preparing for his death. and i know that's harsh, but it's a reality.

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Same as it ever was!

...and all throughout the movie I kept saying, "Man, this guy had it under control."

I think I (and most people) really underestimated the power of addiction.

I hope Odom gets the help he needs.

Unfortunately I have had some people very close to me who had to deal with it. Fortunately all but one is doing very well today and most of them got clean and stayed clean. But a couple didn't. One guy was Lamar, just constantly on and off and back on again. Dude was a rich kid from Napa yet ended up doing a few bids, just senseless on his part really, and if he broker I have no doubt he'd still be locked up now. The other guy was an older dude who beat a bad coke habit before I even knew him. Almost 20 years on (with a family, good job, guap, etc), he fell off the wagon HOARD, almost trashed everything over that booger sugar. It's tough and it's complicated, the way people get hooked is not the cookie cutter shit you see on TV.