Lamar Odom
The Navigator
Judgement in the fog, money, risk and the call others cannot make.
Lamar Odom reads as The Navigator, a leader who finds his way through turbulence by feel rather than blueprint. He sacrificed a starting role for championships, survived twelve strokes and six heart attacks and turned that survival into recovery centers, and now recognizes in retrospect the leadership power he left unused with the Clippers. His gift is adaptive intelligence, flipping the switch from Clippers culture to Pat Riley's demands, charting meaning from chaos instead of imposing order on it.
“I had twelve strokes and six heart attacks. So I'm not even supposed to be here. It made me think it must be a purpose for me living — must be to give back.”
“I wish I would have did things a lot different. I didn't really understand the power that I had. Looking back now, I would have been like, Yo, let's go to the gym.”
“I went from shaking them and all of that to defense, run, rebound. My whole frame of mind changed.”
Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles: “Lamar Odom”
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