Lamar Odom

Lamar Joseph Odom is a player states-unien of Basket-ball born the November 6th 1979 in Jamaica, New York. He plays station of winger for the Los Angeles Lakers.

After three seasons at the University of Rhode Island, Odom declares candidate with the draft 1999. It does not finish its university course (it misses its year of senior ) but is selected in fourth position by the Los Angeles Clippers. Odom makes a success of a very good first season with on average 16,6 points, 7,8 rebounds and 4,2 master keys per meeting.

Odom remains four seasons in the very weak team of the Clippers before fleeing at the time of the season 2003 - 2004 for the Miami Heat with a six year old contract and 65 million dollars. Odom which started to vegetate with the Clippers carries out very a good season in Florida with on average 17,1 points, 9,7 rebounds and 4,1 master keys per meeting. This beautiful personal season is in the unison with that of Miami which, with a very young manpower (Caron Butler, Dwyane Wade), succeeds in reaching the play-offs and to even compete with the best.

At the end of this promising season, Miami decides to reorganize its team to obtain the pivot Shaquille O'Neal, that passes by the transfer of Odom with Caron Butler and Brian Grant towards the Los Angeles Lakers.

Lamar Odom is member of the team of tennis shoe to the Olympic Games of Athens in 2004. It belongs to the first made up team players NBA to lose a match with the Olympic Games. In spite of all its efforts, Lamar Odom gains only the bronze medal.

Successive clubs

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2004 - present:

external Bond

Card nba.com

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