Oct. 14, 2015
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s a kid on the gritty streets of Queens, Lamar Odom wanted to ride his fiery talent to the NBA.
A lefty with the strength of a rebounder and the touch of a sharpshooter, he would lean on those skills to move away from the crime that beckoned him, the classes that bored him, the addict father who bedeviled him.
Odom wound up making that journey. He just never could have anticipated the trouble that would come with it.
Odom, 35, was in a coma Wednesday evening after law officials said he had been found unresponsive at a Nevada brothel the day before.