Lamar Odom opens up on hard drug use during NBA career: ‘I had some great cocaine summers’
NY Post
During a recent sitdown interview with a pair of basketball legends, Lamar Odom made some stunning admissions about his hard drug use during his NBA career.
The former Laker opened up in a candid conversation with Vince Carter and Tracy McGrady on the latest episode of the “Cousins” podcast, and he said that back in his playing days, he never used when games were on the schedule because of the league’s strict testing policy.
“If you get caught for sniffing cocaine,” he told Carter and McGrady, “that suspension is going to be crazy.”
But, when it was time for offseasons, he said that was a totally different story.
“I had some great cocaine summers,” Odom confessed.
Odom, McGrady and Carter spoke for an hour on-camera about the two-time NBA champion’s struggle with sobriety, and Odom acknowledged repeatedly that he was an addict.
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