NBA general manager calls Lamar Odom ‘beyond toxic’
By Bryan Rose
How quickly Lamar Odom has fallen from grace.
Just weeks (hell, even days) removed from searching for an NBA job, the former Rhode Island star reportedly spent the early weeks of August on a drug bender. As if that wasn’t enough, Odom capped off his week with a DUI arrest (and car crash), resulting in a forfeiture of his license because he refused to take any blood tests at a police station.
Still, Odom has desires to play in the NBA again but according to one general manager, he’s going to be met with quite the resistance.
Per the Sporting News:
"“I would say he is beyond toxic at this point,” one general manager told Sporting News. “Just going by what he is giving you on the court, he would have been a risk anyway, maybe someone you give a partial guarantee to just to see if he can turn things around. But with the circus that’s around him off the court now, no way. I think that’s the end of Lamar Odom in the NBA. It’s a shame.”"
Toxic or not, just yesterday the Los Angeles Lakers reportedly offered Odom a contract if he would immediately go to rehab.
There’s been no word if he plans to take them up on their offer.