After Odom heard about Robertson Auguste, the Hialeah teen who lost four siblings and his mother in a Feb. 15 house fire, he took the boy in under his wing.

On Wednesday, Odom was given the NBA Community Assist award for May for reaching out to 13 year old Robertson and his 20 year old brother Conrad who weren't home at the time of the blaze.

"All of the players have been nice, but Lamar really came through. He makes sure we're taken care of. We had never been to a pro basketball game; this whole thing is just crazy, amazing," Robertson said.

The brothers were Odom's guests at every home playoff game. He spent time with them at the pregame shootarounds and after the game. Odom even took them shopping for thousands of dollars worth of Heat merchandise, including shirts and sneakers, which they had lost in the fire.

"I've had losses in my life, so I understand the pain," said Odom, who lost his mother to cancer when he was 12 and more recently his grandmother, who raised him. "For me to get tickets or sneakers or jerseys for them is the smallest thing. I'd do it 100 times over just to see them smile."

Odom also has established "Lamar's Lucky 7s", a section with 40 seats for each Heat home game for underprivileged children.