I am not one who is rooting for Lamar Odom to kick the bucket, I don't care to cheer his demise but I am also not one who feels he should be afforded any special treatment because he was once an fantastic basketball player. He had Magic Johnson type skills but never had his mental makeup, his internal fortitude or his killer instinct but few people do. Lamar Odom was suppose to change the game with his unique skill set which was a bar which was just too high to live up to but make no doubt about it, he was a terrific player. He won a couple of championships, sixth man awards and had a bunch of other accolades but sadly his biography will probably read more about what he didn't do and what he did do outside of Vegas last week.
I don't have any ill will but also do not believe that he deserves any special treatment because he was an all-star. You hear about endless lines for kidney transplants, lines of people who have done everything right and that is one thing Lamar has not. He does not deserve to jump the line after his self induced viagra and cocaine induced coma and if he does then you will know how ass backwards our society is with hero worship.
I'm rooting for him to pull through but not at the expense of a child who never had a choice and there are plenty of those on the list.
This reminds me of when Mickey Mantle got to jump the transplant line and get a brand new liver, just because he was Mickey Mantle. And then Mantle died, anyway.
ReplyDeleteAlso, 10 Viagra is way too much. You only need 1 pill of 25 milligrams, not 10 shots of 100 milligrams. Lamar went overboard apparently trying to overcome cokedick, but cocaine is way more powerful than vitamin V. Thus, he should have just waited a few hours and then done 25 mg of V, as opposed to popping 10 pills of 100 mg Viagra in a futile attempt to overcome the effects of blow. All he was doing was creating a heart attack situation (which obviously happened).
This original blog post was like a bat signal
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