Former Los Angeles Lakers Star Lamar Odom Found Unconscious at a Nevada Brothel

Eldorado2452 October 14, 2015 0

Our prayers are with Lamar Odom. Reports surfaced early this morning that former Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom was found unconscious in Nevada and his current condition isn’t good.

According to ESPN,

Former NBA and reality TV star Lamar Odom was hospitalized Tuesday after he was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel, authorities said.

The 35-year-old former Los Angeles Laker and onetime member (by marriage) of the Kardashian family was in a Las Vegas hospital Tuesday night. There was no immediate word on his condition, officials said.

The Nye County Sheriff’s Department was called at about 3:15 p.m. to Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, about 70 miles outside of Las Vegas, for a report of an unresponsive man needing an ambulance, Sheriff Sharon A. Wehrly said in a statement.

Odom was stabilized and taken to Desert View Hospital in nearby Pahrump, the statement said. Officials then tried to have him airlifted to Las Vegas, but the 6-foot-10 Odom was too tall for the helicopter that was available, so he was driven by ambulance to Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.

Lakers star Kobe Bryant, who exited Tuesday’s exhibition game — also in Las Vegas — in the third quarter for a lower leg contusion, visited the hospital, sources told ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne. The Los Angeles Daily News reported that Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak visited the hospital as well.

Dennis Hof, who owns Love Ranch and other legal brothels in Nevada, said his staff picked up Odom from a home in Las Vegas on Saturday.

“He just wanted to get away, have a good time and relax,” Hof told The Associated Press in a phone interview.

Hof said Odom was “happy, he was sleeping every night” while visiting, but two women went to check on Odom on Tuesday afternoon, after not hearing from him since early morning, and they found him face down and unconscious. When they turned him on his side at the direction of a 911 operator, Odom started “throwing up all kinds of stuff.”