Lamar Odom improves: He is talking, texting, 'doing good' #HNNHealth

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Lamar Odom was making steady improvement and “doing good” Saturday, days after he was rushed by ambulance to a Las Vegas hospital from a brothel, said a person close to the former Laker and Clipper who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter.

Odom was texting and “speaking sentences” from his hospital bed, the person told the Los Angeles Times.

A spokeswoman for Odom's aunt also said he was improving.

Former Clippers teammates Blake Griffin, DeAndre Jordan and Chris Paul were among his visitors. All three arrived in Las Vegas late Wednesday night after the Clippers landed at LAX from a trip to China, where they played two exhibition games.

"He probably has no idea we were there, but just to be there and to see him -- hopefully he knows there's a lot of guys that love him and want to see him do better and want to see him get better," Griffin said before the Clippers' Saturday practice.

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