Lamar Odom

CTL-E-5908 · Person · other · 1979–present

VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)

Combined Graph record U-07153 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5908.

Lamar Odom, born Lamar Joseph Odom on 6 November 1979 in Jamaica, Queens, New York, is an American former forward whose versatility made him a cornerstone of a championship team. Parade's national high school player of the year in 1997, he played one season at the University of Rhode Island before the Los Angeles Clippers selected him fourth overall in the 1999 NBA draft; he made the NBA All-Rookie First Team. After four seasons with the Clippers and one with the Miami Heat, he was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2004 and spent seven seasons there, winning back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010 and the NBA Sixth Man of the Year award in 2011. He later played for Dallas and again for the Clippers, and briefly in Spain in 2014, closing a 14-season career with averages of 13.3 points, 8.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists in 961 games. With the United States national team he won Olympic bronze in 2004 and FIBA World Championship gold in 2010. In October 2015 he was found unconscious in Nevada and hospitalized in a coma; he recovered and has spoken publicly since about addiction and recovery, most recently in a 2026 Netflix documentary.

The record

• Also known as: Lamar Joseph Odom

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 9; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Lamar Odom entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5908 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1036 (Basketball Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American forward — Queens-born Lakers champion. Vital status: LIVING — dated 2026 evidence: interviewed in January-March 2026 for the Netflix documentary release and reported nearly 60 days sober as of 28 January 2026 (People; USA Today). STATISTICS (sourced, dated): 961 regular-season games at 13.3 points, 8.4 rebounds and 3.7 assists; two championships (2009, 2010) and Sixth Man of the Year (2011) (Wikipedia / Land of Basketball) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (NBA and Lakers press photography of Odom; a CTL-created graphic is the cleared alternative.); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5908-lamar-odom.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Relationships

• Los Angeles Lakers — played for
  Traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in 2004; seven seasons there, winning back-to-back championships in 2009 and 2010.
• Miami Heat — played for
  Played one season for the Miami Heat (2003–04) before the 2004 trade to the Lakers.

Sources

• People, "What to Know About Lamar Odom's History of Addiction and Ongoing Recovery" (2026) — subject of the 2026 Netflix documentary Untold: The Death & Life of Lamar Odom; told USA Today he was nearly 60 days sober as of 28 January 2026 — https://people.com/lamar-odom-addiction-recovery-what-to-know-11937984 (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Lamar Odom" — born 6 November 1979; championships in 2009 and 2010 with the Lakers; Sixth Man of the Year 2011; Parade player of the year 1997; Rhode Island; fourth overall pick in 1999; Olympic bronze 2004 and world championship gold 2010; hospitalized in October 2015 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamar_Odom (build store)
• USA Today (For The Win), "Where is Lamar Odom now as 'Untold' Netflix documentary drops?" (31 March 2026) — Odom is alive at 46 and giving interviews about recovery alongside the documentary release — https://ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports/nba/2026/03/31/where-is-lamar-odom-now-alive-khloe-kardashian-kids/89398502007/ (build store)

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