Two-time NBA Champion Lamar Odom was hospitalized Tuesday afternoon after he was found unconscious at brothel about 70 miles outside of Las Vegas.
Odom is 35 years old. The hospital has not released an update on his condition.
Dennis Hof, the owner of the legal Love Ranch brothel where Odom was found, told the Associated Press that Odom had taken herbal viagra and drank some cognac, but did not know of any drug use by the former reality star.
Nye County Sheriff Sharon A. Wehrly said in a statement that Odom was taken to Desert View Hospital at about 4 p.m. local time on Tuesday. He was later taken to Sunrise Hospital in Las Vegas, Nevada for treatment, but Odom couldn’t be flown there by helicopter because of his height — 6 feet, 10 inches. TMZ published video of his ambulance arriving here.
While the staff waited for the paramedics to arrive, Odom began “throwing up all kinds of stuff,” Hof told the AP.
TMZ reported Odom was comatose and on a ventilator while E! News reported his condition as “critical” and Odom has “yet to regain consciousness.”
Odom’s ex-wife, celebrity mogul Khloé Kardashian, was by his side, along with her sister, Kim Kardashian West, and her mother, Kris Jenner, according to TMZ. Kardashian filed for divorce in 2013.
Odom won two championships with the Los Angeles Lakers and his former teammate, Kobe Bryant, was also reportedly by his side. Another original Lakers teammate, Metta World Peace, told reporters after a Tuesday exhibition game he was incredibly upset. “There’s not one word I could say that would make sense,” World Peace said.
Odom last played in the NBA in 2013, but his trainer told TMZ he was preparing for a comeback to the league.
The trainer, Fareed Samad, told the website Odom was down 35 pounds and his training was more “mental than physical with him.”
Odom’s paternal grandmother, Florence Odom, told NBC News on Wednesday that she learned of his hospitalization today and Odom’s father, Joe Odom, was rushing to the hospital to be with his son.
“I’m praying to God. I’m asking God to please let him survive,” she told NBC News. She said she last saw Odom in March 2014 at a funeral.
