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We hope everything is okay!

Lamar Odom missed a game against his former team on Wednesday night after being excused to tend to a family matter.

The Lakers came to Dallas to play the Mavericks, but Odom was absent as coach Rick Carlisle explained an hour and a half before the game:

"He has been excused to tend to a family matter. He will rejoin us after the [All-Star] break."

No word on what the actual family matter was, but it must have been pretty important to miss such a big game, which Dallas ended up losing.

Hopefully it wasn't anything TOO serious!

[Image via WENN.]

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It definitely stinks that the Los Angeles Lakers ruthlessly tried to trade Lamar Odom behind his back, but we think his new home with the Dallas Mavericks (which he may have requested) will suit Lamar just fine.

In fact, coach Rick Carlisle is already praising his new star player's famous wife, Khloe Kardashian! He told sources that she is "the coolest", saying:

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