Odom perseveres, but time may be running out (Good Read)

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  1. kobe23

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    Gotta be a member in order to read that.
     
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    <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">A huge white T-shirt hangs prominently in Lamar Odom's Staples Center locker.

    It serves not as clothing, but as a memorial.

    On the shirt is a drawing of the smiling face of Odom's infant son Jayden, who was 6 months old last summer when he died suddenly in his crib.

    Odom walked to that shirt Sunday afternoon with a sigh.

    "Life is pain," he said.

    He had just finished throwing his aching body around the court for 35 minutes in the Lakers' 113-100 playoff loss to the Phoenix Suns. Now he was going to do something even more difficult.

    He was going to get dressed.

    As he gingerly pulled up his pants, he gasped. As he carefully stretched into his shirt, he groaned.

    When he finally turned around to face the media, he apologized for the giant beads of sweat that still rolled off his face. Some of it was from the game. But some of it was from that pain.

    He took a giant swig of grape juice from a bottle. He stared into the distance and winced.

    "It is what it is," Odom said.

    Except when it's something much more.

    As the Lakers predictably fell behind three games to one in an NBA first-round series that should end Wednesday in Phoenix, Odom's story was about more than his 17 second-half points and 10 second-half rebounds.

    It was about more than how he fought through three injuries that would sideline most men — torn shoulder cartilage, hyperextended elbow, sore knee — to make plays and lead cheers.</div>

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    <div class="quote_poster">The One & Only Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Gotta be a member in order to read that.</div>

    Just use bugmenot.com
     
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    If we have to trade Odom for a player like KG, i think we should. He played with alot of heart yesterday and came back from his injury. So wherever he goes i wish him the best of luck.
     

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