Great article on Lamar Odom of the Lakers. I've always been a fan and have had to defend him when talking to other basketball fans and even diehard Laker fans, you know who you are. Here is the opening sentence:THE HAPPIEST Laker is the one whose father was addicted to heroin, whose
mother died of colon cancer when he was 12, who attended three high schools, had
his first college scholarship revoked before the fall semester of his freshman
year, became a subject of three college investigations, declared for the NBA
draft, tried unsuccessfully to pull out of the draft, was picked by arguably the
worst franchise in sports, violated the league's antidrug policy twice within
eight months and after finally getting his life together, went home to New York
City for an aunt's funeral and wound up burying his 6½-month-old son, then
getting robbed at gunpoint.
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