Lamar Odom hospitalised after being found unconscious

Former NBA and reality TV star, Lamar Odom, has been hospitalised after he was found unconscious at a US brothel.

The 35-year-old former Los Angeles Lakers basketball star, and member-by-marriage of the Kardashian family, is in a Las Vegas hospital and there was no immediate word on his condition.

Nye County Sheriff’s Department was called to the Love Ranch in Crystal, Nevada, 120km from Las Vegas, to a report of an unresponsive man needing an ambulance.