Sources with the Lakers who asked not to be identified because of the sensitivity of the situation confirmed that Kobe Bryant and Lakers General Manager Mitch Kupchak visited Odom in the hospital Tuesday night.

There was an immediate outpouring of support for Odom from current and former players. “We’re just holding hands and hoping he can bounce back.” “He’s got tubes in him now, but we felt inspired by his presence,” Jackson said. Kardashian and some childhood friends were by his side, Jackson said. “Apparently from what the doctor said, he was much better off today than yesterday,” Jackson told reporters as he left the hospital, the Associated Press reported.įrom the Archives: ‘Death always seems to be around me,’ Odom says Jesse Jackson, who attended Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, visited the stricken athlete Wednesday and told reporters that Odom appeared to be improving after he was unresponsive Tuesday. Hospital officials have yet to give an official condition for the 35-year-old basketball player who carved out a championship role on the Lakers, married Kardashian and became a star in their reality TV show that riveted the attention of cable viewers and the tabloid media. Actually, the sheriff was paraphrasing the 911 calls. 14: An earlier version of this story said paramedics found Odom bleeding from his nose and mouth. Their divorce has not yet been finalized.Ĩ:20 p.m., Oct. 14: An earlier version of this story said Khloe Kardashian is Lamar Odom’s ex-wife. Odom’s soon-to-be ex-wife, Khloe Kardashian, former teammates and friends gathered at a Las Vegas hospital Wednesday where the former Lakers player was being treated.Ģ p.m., Oct. They found him unresponsive about 3:15 p.m. Odom had been with two women Monday night but told them he wanted to be alone, Hunter said. He described Odom as “shy, reserved, polite, quiet.” Odom told a prostitute he had used “a small amount” of cocaine before he arrived Saturday, Hunter said. Drugs are not allowed, he said, but customers are not searched, so it is “conceivable” that Odom had used drugs there. Hunter said Odom had never visited the brothel before. “We’re going to be looking at the entire situation, how he came to be” at the brothel. She declined to say whether drugs or drug paraphernalia had been discovered at the brothel, adding that the investigation was continuing. “We’re only after the truth here,” said Sheriff Sharon Wehrly when asked about possible criminal charges related to the Odom incident.

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