Lamar Odom

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

The Players' Tribune

Comedy, Arts, Sports

5 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2023

⏱️ 70 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

This week we got one y’all been waiting on since the jump. Our original teammate and good friend, Lamar Odom joins Knuckleheads. The Clippers and Lakers legend goes through it all: what it was like growing up in Queens, running the city with an AAU team filled with future pros, and how he ended up at Rhode Island for school. L.O. gets into those early 2000s Clippers teams, his culture shock when he went to Miami and then got traded to L.A. for Shaq. He goes into his relationship with Kobe and what it was like to win two championships with the Lakers. Lamar Odom, everyone — tune in!!

New York City hoops, dominating AAU with Ron Artest (5:30)
Clippers years, Lamar and D’s iconic SLAM cover (17:09)
Getting traded from Miami for Shaq to the Lakers, being back in L.A. (29:33)
Lamar and Kobe’s relationship, Lamar becoming sixth man on Lakers (31:00)
Playing in the Lakers-Celtics rivalry in NBA Finals, championship parade (37:37)
Playing for Team USA, Kevin Durant ballin’ (45:38)
The Blackout Game in NYC, 2003 (59:04)

About Our Hosts:

NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls.

Other places to find Knuckleheads:

Subscribe on Youtube

Follow on Instagram

Follow on Facebook

See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Audio player

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Oh, you know what you mean us bro. You know we can't do the dough with you bro. We really really appreciate you
0:07.3	It's a long time coming here. Y'all my rooks
0:11.7	Straight up but we appreciate you being on the show, bro. Oh love my god
0:16.6	When you first got to the NBA who was the first person to bust your ass the first person to bust my ass when I first got to the NBA. Yeah
0:24.2	Kevin going that 99 2,000 tiki like that. Yeah, it was he was like to play out at that time
0:34.1	That I looked up to the most growing up. It was manager Johnson, right, but at that time it was KG
0:41.6	My fucking was so intense
0:44.5	You know me and you be yeah, he ribs like if you ain't have no heart
0:49.8	His intensity could is like to be a form of intimidation. Yeah
0:54.2	But you know, I was still trying to do my thing go at him, but
0:58.4	He was the first person's like damn. I couldn't it's all the like I was I'm a him and dark to
1:03.7	Yeah, man, it's dark was not what's a lot of juice ass
1:07.6	Not a lot of dribbles. Yeah
1:10.4	Straight work. Oh from got that high point released. It's tough to deal with it like seven one. Yeah
1:16.2	For others
1:21.2	Yo, yo, yo, we live on location Los Angeles, California me and the blackest one here
1:28.7	We here with a day one, bro. We here with our old G even though you know you're saying
1:33.6	Through we got L by Joseph lucky
1:37.0	Love the main man this I will see man. We're so sorry. We here in me a world champ. Lamont old
1:59.4	Southside
2:01.2	Make a queen
2:03.4	I mean, that's what grew up to the facts tell about Southside. You growing up with like Ron and
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Players' Tribune, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of The Players' Tribune and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.