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Lamar Joseph Odom (born November 6, 1979) is an American former professional basketball player. As a member of the Los Angeles Lakers in the National Basketball Association (NBA), he won NBA championships in 2009 and 2010 and was named the NBA Sixth Man of the Year in 2011. As a high school player, Odom received national player of the year honors from ''Parade'' in 1997. He played college basketball for the University of Rhode Island, earning all-conference honors in his only season in the Atlantic 10 Conference. He was drafted in the first round of the 1999 NBA draft with the fourth overall pick by the Los Angeles Clippers. He was named to the NBA All-Rookie Team, but twice he violated the league's drug policy in his four seasons with the Clippers. He signed as a restricted free agent with the Miami Heat, where he played one season in 2003–04 before being traded to the Lakers. Odom spent seven seasons with the Lakers, who traded him to the Dallas Mavericks in 2011. After the move, his career declined. He was traded back to the Clippers in 2012 and played briefly in Spain in 2014. Odom played on the United States national team, winning a bronze medal in the Olympics in 2004 and gold in the FIBA World Championship (known later as the World Cup) in 2010. He married Khloé Kardashian in 2009, and has made several appearances on her family's reality television show, ''Keeping Up with the Kardashians''. He and Kardashian also had their own reality series, ''Khloé & Lamar''. ==Early life== Odom was born in South Jamaica, Queens, New York City, New York, to Joe Odom and Cathy Mercer.〔 His father was a heroin addict, and Odom's mother died of colon cancer when he was twelve years old. At her deathbed, Odom's mom told him: "Be nice to everybody".〔 Afterwards, he was raised by his maternal grandmother, Mildred Mercer. In his first three years of high school, Odom played for Christ The King Regional High School in Middle Village, Queens.〔 He left the school at the start of his senior year due to poor grades,〔 transferring first to Redemption Christian Academy in Troy, New York and then to the now-defunct St. Thomas Aquinas High School in New Britain, Connecticut, where he was coached by Jerry DeGregorio. As a senior, Odom was recognized nationally as the ''Parade'' Player of the Year in 1997. He also was named to the ''Parade'' All-American First Team for the second consecutive year, and earned ''USA Today'' All-USA 1st Team honors.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=High School Basketball Awards )〕 During his youth, Odom was teamed with future NBA players Elton Brand and Ron Artest (later known as Metta World Peace) on the same AAU team, and played with future Lakers teammate Kobe Bryant at Adidas ABCD camps.〔 Adidas executive Sonny Vaccaro commented at the time that Odom possessed a "$2 million smile".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lamar Odom」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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