Lamar Odom To Play For Philippines In Dubai Tournament

Lamar Odom to Play for Philippines Mighty Sports Team In Dubai Tournament

LAMAR ODOM – Basketball star Lamar Odom announced that he’ll play for the Philippines’ Mighty Sports team in Dubai Tournament.

Former National Basketball Association (NBA) player Lamar Joseph Odom was a member of the Los Angeles Lakers in United States.

Lamar won two NBA championships in the year 2009 and 2010. In 2011, he was titled as the “Sixth Man of the Year”.

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Lamar Odom was married to a famous Hollywood personality, Khloe Kardashian. However, Lamar’s relationship with the Hollywood celebrity eventually ended last 2016.

In 2015, his basketball career partially ended due to heart attacks and multiple strokes.

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Lamar Odom hopped into different teams during his basketball career. In 1999-2003, he joined the Los Angeles Clippers then on the next year, he transferred to Miami Heat.

The NBA star then stayed for seven years on the Los Angeles Lakers team.

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Lamar Odom recently announced on his Instagram account that he is going to team up with the Philippines basketball team for a Championship in Dubai.

He stated that he will be representing the Mighty Sports team. That team also participated in the Dubai International Basketball Tournament last year with NBA players Dominic McGuire and Hasheem Thabeet.

Lamar will be playing along with Chris Tiu, Beau Belga, JC Intal, Keifer Ravena, and Jeron Teng among others. 

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On his caption, Lamar Odom expressed that he need to step forward his unfortunate incident that happened to him.

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Filipino netizens went psyched after his announcement on teaming up with the Filipino basketball players. Here are some of their comments on the post:

@alinessmacjn: “Yeyyy all love from Philippines”

@itmustbelou: “Omg! So happy to see you play for a Filipino team…I hope you’d come to Manila and play for the Philippines” 

@1211akia: “Omg PHILIPPINES!!!! CONGRATS!!!Will be rooting for you”

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