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Former Lakers Forward Lamar Odom Hospitalized

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Lamar Odom hospitalized.

Former Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom was hospitalized today — and reported to be fighting for his life — after falling unconscious at a Nevada brothel.

The 35-year-old former husband of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” star Khloe Kardashian suffered a medical emergency at the Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, where an ambulance was sent about 3:15 p.m., according to Nye County Sheriff Sharon Wehrly.

The call to the county’s dispatch center reported “an unresponsive male,” Wehrly said.

An ambulance from the Pahrump Valley Fire and Rescue Service arrived at 3:34 p.m. and stabilized the victim, identified as Odom, before taking him to Desert View Hospital in Pahrump, which is about 20 miles south of Crystal, Wehrly said.

Odom arrived at the hospital at 4:16 p.m. and arrangements were made to airlift him to a hospital in Las Vegas, but that wasn’t possible due to the 6- foot, 10-inch man’s size, so he was taken by ground ambulance to Sunrise Hospital, Wehrly said.

Odom was found unconscious in his room, Dennis Hof, the brothel’s owner, told the New York Daily News.

He was unable to breath and was foaming at the mouth when he was found, Hof told the newspaper.

Odom last played for the Lakers in 2011 and most recently played in the NBA in 2013 when he was a member of the Los Angeles Clippers.

Odom, a father of two sons and a daughter, won the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award while with the Lakers in 2011. He was a member of the Lakers’ 2009 and 2010 championship teams.

Odom also appeared with his then-wife on the spinoff series, “Khloe & Lamar” in 2011 and 2012.

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