In her interview with Yahoo Sports, National Basketball Players Association (NBPA) executive director Michele Roberts said that the crisis of American former professional basketball player Lamar Odom had resurface conversations about building a program that was set to assist NBA players who are shifting toward retirement.

Last week, Odom was reported to be insentient and in extreme critical condition at a brothel in rural Nevada. The former basketball player had been in a coma and had suffered kidney failure. At the moment, Odom is undergoing physical therapy.

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According to Roberts, she had heard a number of stories on how hard it was for NBA players to adapt for retirement. She told law students at the University of California-Berkeley that there were several things that should be repaired with the NBPA, and of those things was the deficiency of any sort of transition platform for the players.

An example is Joint Chief-of Staff former chairman,Gen. Martin E. Demsey, 63. According to New York Times, Demsey resigned from his role as the military's top officer. He is now set to counsel NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on leadership and service and also to advise NBA owners and executives on how franchises could relate to communities.

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For the NBPA executive director, while the said program was the role of the organization, there had been a decline when it comes to the assistive services for former NBA players, not to mention the lack of resources.

Last July, NBPA's first ever Players' Awards was held in Las Vegas, which delighted Roberts. She added that the events would have returned next offseason to an NBA city, which the players recognize as famous. Among the feasible options mentioned were Atlanta, Los Angeles, Miami, and New York.

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