Lamar Odom collapsed at a Los Angeles nightclub early Sunday morning as a result of dehydration, a spokesperson for the former NBA player told USA TODAY Sports on Monday morning.
A video obtained by TMZ shows
Odom slumped over and being helped by security personnel at a club in West Hollywood.
Odom’s spokesperson said in a statement that the 38-year-old, who last appeared in an NBA game with the Los Angeles Clippers in 2013, is “doing great.”
“He was dehydrated due to intense workouts earlier in the day without the intake of enough fluids,” the spokesperson said. “It was also very hot in the club. He has seen his doctors and is doing great.”
Odom’s collapse occurred more than two years after he nearly died of a drug overdose. In an article that appeared in The Players’ Tribune earlier this year, he wrote that he was in a coma for four days.
“At that point in my life, I was doing coke every day. Pretty much every second of free time that I had, I was doing coke. I couldn’t control it,” Odom wrote in the story.
Odom averaged 13.3 points per game over his 14 seasons in the NBA, winning two championships with the Los Angeles Lakers. He later signed a contract with a professional team in Spain, Laboral Kutxa Baskonia, but returned to the United States because of a back injury after appearing in just two games.
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