CNN's Lamar Odom Story Uses LaMarcus Aldridge Photo by Mistake
CNN used the wrong NBA star's photo while doing a report on Lamar Odom after he was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel earlier this week. Instead of using a photo of the former Los Angeles Clippers player, they used a photograph of San Antonio Spurs' power forward, and center, LaMarcus Aldridge, instead!
Social media had a field day when this accident happened on Thursday. Check out some of the tweets CNN received for mistaking Lamar Odom as LaMarcus Aldridge.
Nobody's perfect but this mistake probably got someone working at the network in trouble. MStars News has been keeping readers updated with the very latest as more details come in about Odom's tragic story.
The former Los Angeles Lakers player and reality TV star remains at Sunrise Hospital where E! News reports he is out of his coma and has started to breathe on his own. The outlet shares that he is even talking now. It seems like a miracle because the 35-year-old opened his eyes and said, "Hey, baby" to his estranged wife, Khloe Kardashian. Odom also gave her a thumbs up before falling back to sleep.
Besides Khloe being at his bedside, Lamar's two children, Destiny and Lamar Jr., their mother, Liza Morales, and his father, Joe Odom, along with other members of the Kardashian family have been to the hospital to visit.
Former teammate Kobe Bryant also visited Odom, as well as the Rev. Jessie Jackson.
Before being treated at the hospital, Odom had been partying at the Love Ranch in Pahrump, Nevada since last Saturday where he was found unconscious on Tuesday, Oct. 13, by workers at the brothel. Reports revealed that Odom was using cocaine along with an herbal substitute for Viagra before he was found.
"He was doing crack cocaine all weekend and he choked on his mucous," a person inside of the ranch previously stated. "They're now having to fix all the damage it has done."
Odom also allegedly suffered an "ischemic stroke" while in the hospital. MStars News will continue to pray for Odom to have a full recovery.