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The late Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant recently entered a “vivid” dream that one of his former teammates had.
Lamar Odom, who won back-to-back NBA titles with Bryant during this time with the Lakers, recently revealed to the “Doubl3 Coverage Podcast” that he competed against Bryant in a three-point contest hosted by actor Billy Crystal.
But as they competed in the dream, Odom said Bryant stopped and looked at him.
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Los Angeles Lakers forward Lamar Odom (left) talks with guard Kobe Bryant against the Phoenix Suns at US Airways Center on January 5, 2011. (IMAGIN)
“He just stopped and he looked back at me. He said, ‘Hey, the afterlife isn’t what people make it out to be.’ And then I woke up shortly after that,” Odom said on the podcast.
Although it was a dream, Odom came to second thoughts, believing his old teammate was trying to send him a message.
“It could be him [misses] everyone, it can mean one [multitude] of things. Maybe he’s still traveling wherever he’s going or going. I don’t know what that meant, but I just take it as living your best life now. Don’t sell yourself short,” Odom explained.
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Odom’s own life experiences also led to the afterlife conversation with himself.
Odom discussed it after he nearly died of a drug overdose in 2015 and touched on it in a Netflix documentary, “The Death & Life of Lamar Odom.” Doctors said he had 12 strokes and six heart attacks after he was found unresponsive in a brothel near Las Vegas in October 2015. He was placed in a medically induced coma and would later wake up.
In the documentary, he said that the afterlife was not what he expected, and then he heard Bryant now in his dream.
Lamar Odom stands next to Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers as he takes on the New Orleans Hornets in Game Two of the Western Conference quarterfinals of the 2011 NBA Playoffs on April 20, 2011 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. (Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)
“I died and I couldn’t tell you where we’re going, you know what I mean?” he said on the podcast. “I think there’s a lot in life that we all live for, whether it’s your friends or family, money, whatever you fall in love with. You love it now because we’ve seen from his accident, nobody’s promised tomorrow. I think that’s the biggest lesson I’ve learned from his life.”
Bryant and eight others, including his 13-year-old daughter Gianna, died in a helicopter crash in Calabasas, California, on January 26, 2020.
Odom and Bryant played together on the Lakers from 2004 to 2011, winning two NBA titles, with the former winning Sixth Man of the Year in the 2010-11 season.
Lakers teammates Lamar Odom and Kobe Bryant share a light moment before the start of a game against the Minnesota Timberwolves on Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, at Staples Center. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)
Odom played 14 NBA seasons, which included five seasons with the Los Angeles Clippers and one season each with the Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks.
