Published on Friday, February 05, 2010
By DAN WEBER and GREGG PATTON
LOS ANGELES - Lamar Odom is in some rare company.
Going into Friday's game, the 6-foot-10 forward needed five assists to tie former Laker Elgin Baylor for the seventh-fastest player in NBA history to get 3,000 assists and 6,000 rebounds.
He didn't get any assists Friday, so he'll have to settle for being eighth.
But look at the quality of the players on that list above him -- Larry Bird (574 games), Chris Webber (667), Kevin Garnett (681), Oscar Robertson (688), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (691), Wilt Chamberlain (691), Baylor (715).
"Not bad for a forward," Odom said of his assist total.
On Sunday's Super Bowl, Odom has two takes.
"I love Peyton Manning -- watching him play," Odom said.
But then sister-in-law Kim Kardashian is the girlfriend of Saints star Reggie Bush, so he said, "I have some personal reasons for rooting for the Saints. I want everybody (in the family) to prosper
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