Lamar Odom has an estimated net worth of $56 million dollars
Lamar Odom is an American professional basketball player and reality television star with an estimated net worth of $56 million dollars. Odom is 6’10″ and weighs 229 pounds. Lamar Joseph Odom was born November 6, 1979 in South Jamaica Queens, New York. His father was a heroine-addicted war veteran. Lamar grew up with his mother with whom he was very close. She worked as a correctional and traffic offer to make ends meet as a single parent. She didn’t want young Lamar getting caught up in the street life which was heavily influenced by drugs. Odom got introduced to basketball at the age of seven. He played the game to stay focused and stay off the streets. Unfortunately at the age of twelve, Lamar’s mother passed away from colon cancer. Lamar was shipped off to live with his grandmother who maintained that he kept his head in the books and his feet on the basketball court. By high school, Lamar was garnering national attention for his basketball skills. Parade magazine named him “Play of the Year” during his senior year in high school. He even made USA Today’s All-USA First Team.
Odom played for one season at the University of Rhode Island before he declared eligibility for the 1999 NBA draft. Odom was picked up as the fourth overall pick for the Los Angeles Clippers. When Odom joined the Clippers, they were a struggling team with a losing streak. Within three years of Odom playing on the team, their record started to look better. Odom became a free agent, and was picked up by the Miami Heat in 2003. The Heat offered him a $63 million contract that the Clippers were not willing to match. In the 2003-2004 NBA season, Odom and D.Wade led the Heat to the team’s first playoff series win in four years. That same year Odom went to Athens, Greece to represent the United States in the Olympic Games.
The next year Odom and two other Heat players were traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in exchange for Shaquille O’Neal. Odom excelled while playing with the Lakers, and contributed to the team winning two consecutive NBA championships in 2009 and 2010. In 2009, Lamar married reality star Khloe Kardashian. They had a show on the E! network that documented their lives a s newly weds. To his dismay, in 2011 Odom was traded to the Dallas Mavericks and then back to his first team, the Los Angeles Clippers in 2012.
Lamar Odom has enough net worth to buy:
1. 1,454,545.45 Smileactives Vibrite Teeth Whitening Pens ($38.50 each)
2. 2,285,714.3 Weight Watchers Ultimate Chicken Cookbooks ($24.50 each)
3. 205,278.6 Porano Table Lamps by Uttermost ($272.80 each)
Lamar Odom has enough net worth to giver everyone the country of Myanmar in $1.05.
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