Where Odom's support comes from as he fights for his life doesn't matter.
"Have you ever put your hands in really warm water after they were really cold?" Metta World Peace asked a few reporters Sunday night after the Lakers' first preseason win, days before Lamar Odom was rushed to the hospital. "That's the worst pain in the world."
That's not true. The pain World Peace and the rest of Odom's basketball family are feeling now is much worse following news that Odom was found unconscious in Nevada and subsequently hospitalized. A clearly anguished World Peace spoke to reporters after the Lakers' practice on Thursday, and for one of the first times in his career, the always quotable forward had nothing to say.