The Manhattan Post is reporting that L. a. Clippers star Lamar Odom during a custody battle over his 14-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son. The youngsters’s mother, Liza Morales, was never married to Odom.

The report states that while Odom’s and Morales’ lawyers spoke in another room, Odom managed to catch a 20-minute nap on a courthouse bench before being rudely awoken by a court officer. Odom claimed that he was both jet-lagged and flu-stricken.

Despite playing inside the NBA since 1999, being named to the NBA All-Rookie Team, and playing for the U.S. national basketball team within the 2004 Olympics, Odom is, perhaps, most known recently for marrying reality TV star Khloé Kardashian. The couple’s wedding was featured at the reality TV show Maintaining With the Kardashians, they usually were later featured in a derivative reality TV show titled Khloé & Lamar. Portion of the kid custody battle is over whether the youngsters can appear on Odom’s reality TV shows, or whether or not they would be part of Morales’ reality TV show, Starter Wives.