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Former NBA star Lamar Odom allegedly reached at least 105 mph before he was arrested for a DUI in Las Vegas, according to officials. On Jan. 17 around 2 a.m., a Nevada Highway Patrol trooper found a Dodge Durango driving on the freeway. Officials said the trooper initially estimated the car’s speed at about 90 mph. The trooper then accelerated to about 105 mph to catch up.
Former NBA star Lamar Odom was arrested on suspicion of DUI in Las Vegas over the weekend, authorities said Tuesday. Odom, 46, was pulled over Saturday on Interstate 15 near Harry Reid International Airport, according to Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Shawn Haggstrom. He could face charges including DUI, excessive speed and failure to properly maintain a travel lane, Haggstrom said. Haggstrom didn't have attorney information for Odom. An email seeking comment from a sports agent for Odom wasn't immediately returned.
Lamar Odom has been arrested in Las Vegas ... TMZ has learned. The former NBA star was arrested and booked for driving under the influence early Saturday morning. He was also slapped with two traffic violations -- driving more than 41+ miles per hour over the limit and improper lane change/failure to maintain lane. At the time of publishing, it appears Odom is still in custody.
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander plans to have a pre-written speech in hand when he accepts his Sports Illustrated Sportsperson of the Year award tonight in Las Vegas. That is a much simpler plan for the Oklahoma City Thunder star than when he freestyled during his emotional speech for the 2025 NBA Most Valuable Player award. “This one I’ll be a little bit more prepared,” Gilgeous-Alexander revealed to Andscape after the Thunder’s 131-94 win over the host Golden State Warriors on Jan. 1. “With MVP, I wanted it to come straight from the heart. I had no speech. I just started talking. But those people, I see every day. I just wanted to give them raw emotion. That is probably why I started crying like that because it was raw. “But this one I’ll be more prepared. I’m writing it just myself. I’ll write it down and probably have it on a teleprompter.”
The NBA and Las Vegas have been linked for many years. A summer league has been held in the city annually since 2004, and Team USA basketball also trains in Las Vegas — though sources close to the program said it could look for a new location to train for 2027 FIBA World Cup and and 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. While a city might want to propose hosting the NBA Cup final, the league could stick with Las Vegas and allow the event to grow as it did with Las Vegas Summer League, which has become a signature event for the league that many veterans make a point to attend.
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Attendance at the semifinals and final at T-Mobile Arena was rough, with empty seats littered around the arena. A plethora of fans got free tickets as “seat fillers” through a popular ticketing website called 1iota.com for the semis and final, The Post has learned. And those seats weren’t way up in the nosebleeds — they were courtside.
Fifty members of the Jackals, the newly formed pack of high-octane Spurs supporters who proved their mettle at daylong tryouts over the summer, were flown to Las Vegas by the team ahead of the title game, according to their "pack leader" Alex Peña. He said the members, chosen at random to be invited, found out the news Sunday evening, a day after the Spurs handed the defending champion Thunder just their second loss of the season to punch their ticket to the final.
The NBA Cup may be leaving Sin City. The league is openly considering the possibility of moving the championship game of its in-season tournament away from Las Vegas for next season, sources familiar with the situation told ESPN. That decision, which comes in the wake of the league announcing back in September that this would be the last season both the semifinals and championship game will be played at a neutral site, is a recognition that the neutral site approach has lacked the energy and enthusiasm, at least to this point, the league initially hoped it would.
What hasn't caught on is the atmosphere of the tournament's final stretch to decide a champion. That's in part why the league announced in September that 2025 would be the final Cup featuring a neutral-site semifinals, a recognition that the approach has lacked the energy and enthusiasm the league had hoped to create. And it seems the NBA is pondering another change. Sources familiar with the situation told ESPN recently that the league is considering also moving the title game out of Las Vegas.
The Dennis Rodman biopic has found a new Worm. LaKeith Stanfield has officially boarded 48 Hours in Vegas, a film chronicling the Chicago Bull's infamous trip to Las Vegas during the 1998 NBA Finals.
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There’s another upside. For some teams and players, the games have turned into a dry run for the playoffs. “It’s good prep for the postseason,” Thunder guard Shai Gilgeous-Alexander said last year ahead of the NBA Cup final in Las Vegas. “It’s obviously heightened stakes than a regular season, 82-game season, and it’s good to get reps in games that mean a little bit more and have stakes to it.” Gilgeous-Alexander and the Thunder lost in the NBA Cup final, but he would eventually lead Oklahoma City to the 2025 NBA championship, securing regular-season and Finals MVP in the process.
Shams Charania: San Antonio Spurs' Victor Wembanyama is likely to return for Saturday's NBA Cup semifinals against the Oklahoma City Thunder in Las Vegas, sources tell ESPN. Final clearance will come after today's practice for Wembanyama, who's been sidelined since Nov. 14 due to a calf strain.
The Thunder advanced to the Las Vegas portion of NBA Cup play for the second year in a row and will face the San Antonio Spurs in the West semifinals on Saturday. The winner of that game will play in the Cup championship game on Tuesday. “Winning is never boring,” Williams said. “There was a time when some players on our team were getting blown out. I’m not going to name names, but we lost by 70. I think some guys have it in the back of their minds. Even my first year, we weren’t winning a ton. We were solid. But I think I have that in the back of my mind. You can’t get bored with the process.”
Brandon Rahbar: Thunder improve to 24-1. 12-0 at home. 16 straight wins (best in OKC history). Tie 2016 Warriors for best start in NBA history. Punch ticket to the NBA Cup Semifinals. Next up: Lakers/Spurs winner on Saturday in Las Vegas.