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Lamar Odom: How his love for fame ruined his NBA carreer

<article>Fame is like a powerful drug to the many people who pursue it and can&&num;8217&semi;t imagine their lives without it&period; Fame bestows heroic power to those who obtain it&comma; having in their minds the fact that they can get the best table in a very busy restaurant&comma; cut any line in the store without a fuss and always force random people to gasp and point and treat the famous person higher than they would a best friend&period;Fame is able to  persuade a fading former child star to turn a cheap stripper and twerk on national TV and find a creative way to use a foam finger&period; And fame can tell a professional basketball player&comma; who already had a small measure of it&comma; that he needed love and something more and therefore should marry into the First Family Of Fame&comma; a group of pretty people who are famous for&comma; well&comma; being famous&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Now we are left to wonder if fame played any role in driving Lamar Odom into a dark and troubled world&comma; or if he&&num;8217&semi;s just sneakily trying to push Miley Cyrus off center stage&period; Is the latest from Lamar a publicity stunt designed to sell more supermarket tabloids or is it a cry for help&quest; Either way&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s a bad move for Odom and will not revive a crumbling basketball career&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Depending on whom you ask and or believe &&num;8212&semi; has TMZ ever been wrong about these things&quest; &&num;8211&semi;Odom just resurfaced recently after being on the lam and zonked out of his mind on drugs&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s really hard to say for sure when you&&num;8217&semi;re trying to keep up with the Kardashians&comma; hard to tell where reality ends and reality TV begins&period; This is what Odom signed up for when he married Khloe&comma; even though she&&num;8217&semi;s considered the most grounded of the Kardashian gang&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Lamar Odom &&num;8211&semi; The NBA Drug Trail&comma;&&num;8221&semi; blared one headline&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;Khloe Kardashian And Lamar Odom &&num;8211&semi; SEPARATED&comma;&&num;8221&semi; claimed another&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>These &&num;8220&semi;developments&&num;8221&semi; involving Odom were enough to cause a concerned Magic Johnson to wonder&comma;through Twitter&comma; whether Odom was safe and sound&period; Former teammates did the same&comma; just not through social media&period; The still-developing drama&comma; be it truth or fable&comma; is being consumed in heavy doses by the Hollywood press while a segment of the sports world is busy tsk-tsking and saying &&num;8220&semi;told-you-so&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>When your life is being dissected more by <i>Inside Edition<&sol;i> and the <i>National Enquirer<&sol;i> and TMZ than <i>Sports Illustrated<&sol;i> &lpar;and&comma; OK&comma; Sports on Earth&rpar; then something is amiss&period; Life is not normal&period; Maybe this is what Odom wanted&comma; something the NBA by itself could not give him&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s a level of attention he knew would eventually intrude too deeply into his life and reveal parts of it that he&&num;8217&semi;d rather keep on the low&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Odom has always been smart and affable and considered a stand-up guy&comma; and also a bit… different&period; He admitted in the past to smoking reefer &lpar;Odom has violated the NBA&&num;8217&semi;s anti-drug policy twice&comma; although the nature of his drug wasn&&num;8217&semi;t revealed&rpar;&period; A part of him was destroyed forever when his infant son died unexpectedly&period; He played for the Clippers before Chris Paul &lpar;the first time&rpar;&comma; and the Heat before the Big Three&comma; and the Lakers immediately after Shaquille O&&num;8217&semi;Neal left&comma; the trifecta of being in the right-place&comma; wrong-time&period; Then he scored a pair of championship rings with the Lakers by carving out a sixth-man niche for himself and marrying into the FFOF in the midst of it all&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Thanks for the read and keep it up&excl;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<&sol;article>&NewLine;

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