Lamar Odom: “I loved drugs. You’re talking to a real addict… Summertime I did drugs I ain’t gonna front… I had some great cocaine summers.”
“Cocaine Summers” sounds like an album name
Sounds like an album by Lana Del Rey
Pusha T
Freddie Gibbs
Rick James
Isn’t Pusha in the files?
More like Crawfish Summers these days
Lmao
Nah all charli xcx
Or Gucci Mane
Same album and vibes as Rick Ross ~ Rich Off Cocaine
Sounds like my college years
There’s an alternate universe where Brian Wilson makes this album.
I’m going to assume it’s banned
Calling bs, he was for sure using during the season as well. Cocaine doesn’t last that long in your system.
Lol 100% he probably started out just doing it in the summer but once you’re an addict, it’s all day everyday especially when money isn’t an issue.
Yup, it’s funny because addicts always try to spin the stories in a way to make it seem like they were in control. There’s just absolutely no way he was going on “cocaine summers” benders and then be able to turn it off for 7-8 months out of the year lol
you can see the guilt in odom when TMAC says so at least you had it under control
Which is insane bruh. There is no “having it under control” with shit like cocaine. If you are sniffing cocaine with any level of regularity, you have a cocaine problem point blank period. I’m not coming at the people out there who did it a handful of times in college, or at a rave once. If you do cocaine more than 1 or 2 times in a 1 year span you got a coke problem. It’s just maybe not that serious (yet). It’s hilarious how people try to justify it. “Nah dude I only do it like once a month at the bar or parties on the weekend.” You know who else thought they had it completely under control? Literally every cocaine addict in the history of life. Odom is the perfect example. NBA multimillionaire to being on the streets.
Editing to say I knew the casual cocaine users would be mad in my replies. It’s okay if you have an opinion but I’m not changing my mind on this. I am aware plenty of casual users have stopped using and never fallen into addiction. But the fact remains that every cocaine addict started out as someone that “had it under control” and you might think you’re invincible or can’t be that person, but you absolutely can.
lmao you speak in absurd absolutes. There are absolutely people who do coke and don’t have a problem. As you said, everyone who has a problem thinks they had it under control at one point. But that does not mean the inverse is true, that every single person who thinks they have it under control has a problem. Stop judging everyone and thinking everyone is the same.
I heard stories of Vietnam soldiers going through the war hard heroin users and then drop it completely once they got home, I come from a family of alcoholics and it wasnt watching them ruin their lives that kept me from drinking heavily I just don’t have the taste for it all that much.
what’s interesting there is they lost the main source of their ongoing trauma at the same time they kicked drugs…seems like a reasonable assumption to say that a lot of those guys were just numbing the horror of an unbearable situation and once they were out they didn’t need to be numb anymore.
I’m not judging anyone, I’m an ex addict myself (opioids). I was a casual user.. until I wasn’t. And what is scary is how it happened without me even realizing. I’m lucky that I had a life I cared enough about to quit before it had an major negative effects on my life but it gave me a completely new outlook on casual drug use can very quickly turn into a hardcore addiction.
When I worked three jobs where two of them paid out the tips in cash at the end of the night and the GM at my other spot was a dealer on the side, and one of the other bartenders at the second job liked the cap the night off with some bumps, I was doing coke for hours four or five days a week, probably dropping $600 a week at peak.
So yes, it was absolutely a problem.
But then that GM left the main job, and that bar got slow enough that I was spending more time in the office doing lines than serving customers, so I left that bar. A little after, the third job closed for the winter and I didn’t go back when it re-opened for Spring.
When you’re back to one job that pays biweekly and you’re no longer in contact with your two Coke buddies, it’s pretty easy to stop doing it. At least it was for me. Obviously doesn’t really apply to somebody like Odom with seemingly infinite money and connections, but most people I know that had heavy Coke habits at one point or another changed jobs or the guy they knew moved away and it was just…over.
I would say if you’re out there actively buying it, then you for sure have a problem. Because if you’re doing it once or twice a year, you can honestly say the same about when people drink alcohol on New Year’s Eve. Are they alcoholics?
Cocaine and alchohol are two completely different substances. I think if you drink on a regular basis, daily or more than 4 drinks in a week then yeah you have a problem. But one can enjoy a beer/cocktail or two, feel absolutely no inebriation and socialize in that way. Cocaine is a substance that is used for the strict purpose of inebriation.
So may dorks who watch too may movies talking on here. Coke was never my drug, but I’ve been around it my whole life and people aren’t always all or nothing like this DARE rant you just went on. If people do cocaine 2-3 times a year for a decade the don’t have a cocaine problem.
Lamar certainly didn’t “have it under control”, but you couldn’t be more wrong about this… casual coke users that never spiral out of control far outnumber those that do.
Or just tell 10% of the story. He probably did have a cocaine summer and take a break after (once)
I mean I was doing blow for 6 months just recreationally because I was doing the afties cycle with bartenders and night demons and I just stopped going and I’m not craving it or feining. Different because I’m sure the amount of money he was blowing made the amounts 10-fold but I can see it.
Its possible that the NBA routine kept him in check, but it’s also possible he sniffed some here and there.
Being in the nba and traveling everywhere by plane and getting game ready etc would definitely slow you down on your usage, having to attend practices and shoot around. Obviously he used but probably not nearly as much as the off season
Many addicts require routine to help keep them disciplined. Boredom, time and money is a killer combination.
lol you watch too many movies.
lol I came here to say that. Watch his movement change while he says that, and then compare that to how he answers the rest of the questions. He 100 used during the season lol
Went back and watched it and dint see what you guys are talking about at all. He answers that question 100% exactly like all of the others. Not a single thing looked different about it lol.
Not saying he’s telling the truth, but I have no idea what you guys are talking about. You’re literally making it up lol. You can’t describe what he’s doing differently with that answer, I dare you to try lol.
The funny thing is they’re probably projecting how they feel on what they’re seeing
People always do this on reddit. Say they noticed some small microexpression about a person that fits whatever narrative they’re trying to roll with
Yeah his sympathetic nervous system was firing, got all twitchy lol
He’s not gonna admit that in public. NBA might punish him and rescind his long time benefits as a post NBA player.
Out in like 48 hours.
Why lie? Seems pretty candid
I remember they did a segment following Odom around once and he was addicted to candy and they showed how much candy he had in his front seat
And the lakers were worried it was the reason for his up and down play
It might have been one factor but not thee factor
Yep. I’ve known several addicts, they can’t just decide to quit when they want. 100% he was using during the season.
Deff during the all star break lol
Yup. Weed stays in the system for weeks and coke leaves the system within a couple of days
I loved drugs. I still do, but I used to, too.
Watching Odom back in the day always left me wanting more. Yea he was a hell of a role player and an amazing 6th man but he was a true 6’10, had the ball on a string and was a bucket getter. I was always wondering why tf this guy wasn’t a superstar. When I hear people like him and Micheal Beasley talk I’m always blown away how talented they were but how many demons they were fighting, especially at a time you’re supposed to feel like you’re on top of the world.
Not only demons, but witches (Kardashians) as well.
Eh looking back Khloe took care of him well
Hey man, I am perpetuating a conspiracy about them being witches. I never said if it hurt or helped or if it was or wasn’t a good relationship
Yeah Khloe got the raw end of that deal for sure.
oh please
he won 6moy dating Khloe and if you seen the shows, she was constantly supporting his career.
Kris Humphries played some of his best ball while dating Kim
late career kanye fell off a cliff after divorcing Kim but he put out Yeezus and TLOP while dating her….
James Harden was killing the league averaging 27PPG while dating Khloe
Tristan won a championship and became a starting center on finals teams while dating Khloe. She fathered his babies, let him cheat and still took him back.
the women aint witches
they helping these dudes reach their peakss
Are they helping or are they showing up when these guys peak?
helping
Rashad McCants and Reggie Bush would like to have a word
Reggie had injury issues and was just small for an NFL RB. Can’t blame Kim for what went wrong there. Unless she’s an actual witch and cursed him.
McCants wasn’t that good and that wasn’t Bush’s issue
who
You’re giving me Ferrari F1 hopes with this info
Odom rhymes with so many things, Pusha T just smiled somewhere.
In the corner, scratching my scrotum
This coke got me itching like Lamar Odom
Bars
I read that in Pusha T voice.
Then said , “yuuuuuucccckkkkk.”
Bitches coming to the crib actin like I know dem : looking for da powder call me Mr. Odom.
We got the birds stashed inside but we ain’t gon hold em, it’s gonna be a cocaine summer like Lamar Odom
Bitch yap too much, had me dying of boredom, gave her deep dick Kenny Rogers when I fold em
Cable modem
it was MORE THAN A DICK we kept that hard by the scrotum 😈😈😈
COCAINE WITHDRAWALS from all the drugs that I bought and I sold em 😈
If u ain’t got all the cards then you’re folding😈😈
Drive the cars til the tires crack and go bald they Odom 😈😈😈😈
I was a big fan of Lamar, but he’s a liar and he’s still not taking responsibility for the shit he’s done and he’s probably still doing
Yea it also bothers me when he’s like “ya I’d be in the hall of fame if not for X” like ok bro. I’d be in the hall of fame too if I had your size and athleticism too.
You’re probably overestimating your ability no matter what physical talents you would have had
It’s the old “if I worked out…”. Ya if you were a completely different person who worked out you could
Well he’s honest lol
Well kinda. For sure he was using during the season! Haha
WHO WAS ON CRACK
Insane I had to scroll to the bottom for this. I can hear SAS in my head
“Lamarrr Oahhhdom… whowas ON CRACK”
Absolute fuckin classic
paul george role model
Wait the PG coke thing real?
Nah it was probably ketamine If it was to treat depression like he said
25 games for any non performance enhancing drug is insane, even dumber if it’s just Ketamine
I agree, but the leagues drug policies will always be behind the times and you can’t start giving out exceptions for stuff like this. Hopefully they update it ASAP though, having to forgo something like Ket treatment for persistent depression or anxiety would suck for someone under the kind of pressure Paul George is under
Damn I wonder if he tried psilocybin, that doesn’t show up on drug tests at least..
I think the ket treatment is much more readily available while the psilocybin type is still being worked on but idk, I just use the mushrooms to ascend lol
Who gives him ket, a doctor? Or on his own?
Well ideally he’d go to a clinic and they’d hook him up to a low-dose type of ketamine and monitor him while he’s receiving the treatment. There might also be some guided meditation type of therapy associated with it but I’m less certain of that part, I don’t think they do that at all of them
Essentially, the medical reasoning is that a chemical in the ketamine allows your brain to form “new connections” between neurons (i think). Our brains develop “highways” for thinking, and sometimes that can mean it’s easy to get stuck in a certain state of mind (like treatment resistant depression). Ketamine allows your brain to build a new highway, so instead of one thing leading to a spiral that causes you to enter a severe depressive episode, your brain can take a different route and ideally avoid the depression by “going around” it. You train your brain to take that route instead, and now you’re better able to manage your depression.
Sorry if this description isn’t helpful. I’m not a doctor, I’ve just read about this kind of stuff and talked about it with friends. Psilocybin has a similar affect on neurons, which is why it’s also being tested for treating addictions and depression
There’s actual ketamine clinics for this sort of thing, at least in my state. I’d assume with his money he’d go to something of that nature, unless bro was just hitting the bag at home and used that as his excuse.
There are rumors like ketamine, but the NBA hasn’t disclosed which one. PG said it was for his mental health, and I’m pretty sure he did not take cocaine
Imagine how good Odom would be without drugs
Or the Kardashians
I really hope this dude can stay clean and do something with the rest of his life that gives meaning to the struggles he went through. Fuck the Lakers and everything, but he always seemed like a good dude with some heavy demons taking the wheel at the worst times. He says he was put here for something greater than basketball, I hope so too.
Dude admitting to cheating on his wife with over 1,000 other women. I would not classify that as being a good dude.
That’s fair, still think he deserves to be alive. If he can use his past mistakes to help others have a better future, I think that’s a good thing?
Man I hope so too but reading between the lines looks like hes just gonna do some cliché heavy church themed anti weed campaigns or some b.s
the heart damage from the coke abuse and all-nighters is done, early death is most likely.
You’re right, he should just stop trying to better himself and help others because what’s the point.
They should hire you to speak in schools.
i didnt say what i said to imply he should stop trying to better himself
i said it because its a true thing that happens, heart disease is a long term issue with coke users.
Fuck the Lakers for what exactly. Trading him (and Gasol) for CP3 that got vetoed and when he came back he basically quit playing which led them to moving him to Dallas? You should actually look up his history and what he’s done to self-sabotage his life and career because the Lakers have nothing to do with that lmao
What, are you new? Look at my flair.
Always Fuck the Lakers.
They’re the Lakers dawg
Nobody is ready all that shit. Fuck the lakers
He’s a Trailblazers fan lol, of course he hates the Lakers
Fuck the Lakers for what exactly
Existing
Zero percent chance he wasn’t using during season
Freddie Gibbs is calling Alchemist as we speak and telling him to sample this
Fuck that’s accurate
He also had a huge sweet tooth. When you combine all the cocaine and sugar he had, I’m surprised he’s made it this long
6’10 and can move extremely well and very skilled and pretty smart player. Seems like a good guy too.
It’s pretty sad to hear a father say “if I wasn’t playing basketball I had no responsibilities”
This guy? Incredulous!
It’s a helluva drug
Whose couch did Lamar Odom ruin?
no he didnt. with this addiction hes lucky he had money and clout to avoid serious consequences. thats his real accomplishment
“I was put here to do something more than just play basketball…and that something was cocaine.”
I would serve him a lot during those rough years he had, I think between 2014-2018.
Really chill guy, always coked out, always tipped well.
A lot of people think oldheads are lying when we say that most older players used to fuck around all summer
It’ll be revealing if Lewis Hamilton goes off the rails.
He had to hear the cocaine stories in NBA from generation before him and how it ruined so many careers, costing them millions. Len Bias didn’t scare him at all.
I’m not saying that it’s right, and I am definitely not encouraging any kind of drug use…..but I be cocaine summers with Lamar Odom were fun as fuck.
This explains why he ate so much candy.. They say sugar kills the cravings. Shit is wild to hear but at least he’s honest about it..
Cocaine piss hits diff too
Molly piss hits even better !
Bro has to be related to uncle baby Billy ☠️
It’s a summer with miami. Bottles in the air, livin without a care…..
He looks so different
I love Lamar Odom. How many people can say that?
So sad…
The cocaine cowboy
He sounds like a Dave Chappelle character
Damn
I’ll never try it but cocaine users make it sound like it’s one of the best drugs ever.
He needs to collab with the Triple Double Cocaine Bear
Hall of Famer is laughable
bro is claiming to never had violent episodes as a drug addict. Yea ok… Lamar the Jesus of addicts.