Troubled NBA player Lamar Odom could be returning to the league, perhaps as soon as a few days.
Yahoo! Sports reported Friday night that Odom met with Los Angeles Clippers coach Doc Rivers and other members of the organization at the team's facility for two hours following a practice.
"Everyone was shocked, but it was a good surprise," one Clippers source said of Odom's appearance.
Odom, a former NBA Sixth Man of the Year with the crosstown rival Los Angeles Lakers, has become more infamous for his recent off-court issues.
According to USA TODAY Sports, the Clippers have a roster spot available and have a serious interest in Odom, who was on the team's roster last season. He averaged career lows of four points and 5.9 rebounds per game, but was part of a deep Clippers bench.
USA TODAY Sports added that a signing could come in days, weeks, or not at all, based on Odom's off-field issues.
He was arrested in late August on a DUI charge. Odom also reportedly had a one-day stay in rehab to battle a drug addiction, and he has been accused of infidelity against his wife Khloe Kardashian.
US Weekly reported that the two had a two-hour therapy session and are working on saving their four-year marriage.
Odom, 34, won the Sixth Man of the Year Award in 2011, and helped the Lakers reach three NBA finals from 2008-10. The Lakers won the title in 2009 and 2010.
Los Angeles, however, had worked a deal to trade Odom in a three-team deal that would have brought Chris Paul to the Lakers in December of 2011. The NBA voided that trade, but Odom felt so unappreciated that he asked to be traded. But some personal tragedies that took place during the summer of 2011 also helped start Odom's spiral out of the league and into tabloid fodder.
The Lakers sent him to Dallas, but his play quickly deteriorated from his work with the Lakers. After averaging just 6.6 points and 4.1 rebounds, he and the Mavericks mutually agreed to part ways.
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