Lamar Odom News: Finished With Spanish Contract After Injury, Back In US
Lamar Odom's professional basketball comeback was recently sidelined after he suffered a back injury.
Odom, the 34-year-old former NBA forward, joined the Spanish team Laboral Kutxa last month to close out the 2013-2014 basketball season, ESPN reports. However, E! News is reporting that Odom has "finished his present contract," after suffering from a back injury according to the Spanish basketball club.
Odom contributed two games, playing for 22 minutes on the team, according to E!. He has already arrived back to the United States where he will treat his injury, the publication reports.
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"I am going to try and get back on the court and give you guys a show," Odom told the Spanish club's website, E! reports.
Odom took his talents overseas after publicly campaigning for a position on the Los Angeles Clippers team that he was released from over seven months ago. Josean Querejeta, the president of Laboral Kutxa, previously spoke about his reasoning for acquiring Odom.
"We're very happy to have signed a very important player who has had a long and fruitful career in the NBA,'' Querejeta said in a statement to ESPN last month. "We've worked very hard over the last couple of days to make this happen. We felt we needed a boost and had to break the collective cloud that has been hanging over us over the last while so we could get back to winning."
Laboral Kutxa is ninth in the 18-team Spanish league and last in its Euroleague group.
Despite the controversy surrounding Odom last year, Los Angeles Clippers' coach Doc Rivers has publicly said that the basketball player needs another shot in the NBA and even considered signing him.
"I don't know what our plans are yet. I like Lamar," Rivers told the Los Angeles Times late last year. "I want him to be in the NBA."
