Ex-NBA star Lamar Odom found himself on the wrong side of the law on Saturday morning after he was arrested in Las Vegas for DUI.
Per TMZ, law enforcement arrested Odom, 46, following a traffic stop. Authorities are still investigating the case.
Odom received two traffic violations: one for driving over 41+ miles per hour over the limit and the other for improper lane change/failure to maintain lane.
This isn’t the first time that the former Los Angeles Lakers star has been charged with driving under the influence. He was similarly arrested in connection with the same crime in 2013.
In October 2015, Odom had a brush with death after he was found unresponsive in a Nevada brothel following an alleged drug overdose. The October incident left him in a coma and on life support. He also suffered kidney failure, heart attacks, and multiple strokes.
However, following his recovery, Odom claimed he was drugged the night before he was found unresponsive in the brothel. “I didn’t take anything that night,” Odom said in an interview on Addiction Talk. “I was really hurt and almost in some sense afraid because somebody just tried to take my life.”
Odom also said God gave him another shot at life because he genuinely hadn’t consumed any drugs leading up to the alleged overdose. The retired basketball star said that incident spurred him to seek help and permanently stay clean as he hit “rock bottom.”
In 2023, Face2Face Africa reported that the two-time NBA champion had acquired three drug rehabilitation centers in California to help people beat addiction. Odom’s investment in the rehab centers came seven years after his near-death experience at Nevada’s Love Ranch brothel. The 46-year-old was battling drug addiction and depression at the time.
