Your reputation precedes you.
Lamar Odom's reputation has meant a lot through the years, and has stood for many different things to many different kinds of people. To understand where Odom's reputation starts for Clipper fans, particularly many Clipper fans that latched onto this team before Blake Griffin turned the franchise around, and even before Elton Brand led the team into the playoffs, you would have to do some digging.
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Odom came before Griffin and before Brand. Odom also came after Danny Manning and the litany of mostly disappointing picks in between that made the franchise's front office a laughingstock.