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Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant recently walked into a “vivid” dream one of his former teammates had.
Lamar Odom, who won two consecutive NBA titles alongside Bryant during his time with the Lakers, recently revealed to the “Doubl3 Coverage Podcast” that he was competing against Bryant in a three-point contest and that actor Billy Crystal was hosting it.
But as they competed in the dream, Odom said Bryant stopped and looked at him.
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Los Angeles Lamars forward Lamar Odom (left) talks with guard Kobe Bryant against the Phoenix Suns at the US Airways Center on January 5, 2011. (IMAGINE)
“He just stopped and looked at me. He said, ‘Hello, the afterlife isn’t what people make it out to be.’ And then I woke up shortly after,” Odom said on the podcast.
Although it was a dream, Odom thought better of it afterward, believing his former teammate was trying to send him a message.
“Maybe he [misses] everyone, this can mean a [multitude] things. Maybe he is still on his journey, where he needs to go or go. I don’t know what that meant, but I just consider it living your best life now. Don’t sell yourself short,” Odom explained.
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Odom’s own life experiences also sparked a conversation with himself in the afterlife.
Odom spoke about it after nearly dying of a drug overdose in 2015, addressing the subject in a Netflix documentary, “The Death and Life of Lamar Odom.” Doctors said he had 12 strokes and six heart attacks after being found unconscious 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 the afterlife was not what he had expected, then heard Bryant now in his dream.
Lamar Odom stands next to Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers while facing the New Orleans Hornets in Game 2 of the Western Conference Quarterfinals during the 2011 NBA Playoffs on April 20, 2011 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. (Kvork 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 are a lot of things in life that we all live for, whether it’s your friends or your family, money, whatever you fall in love with. You love him now because we saw with his accident that no one is promised tomorrow. I think that’s the biggest lesson I 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 with the Lakers from 2004 to 2011, winning two NBA titles while the former won Sixth Man of the Year during the 2010-11 season.
Lakers teammates Lamar Odom and Kobe Bryant share a moment of levity before the start of a game against the Minnesota Timberwolves, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2010, at Staples Center. (Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times)
Odom played 14 NBA seasons, including five seasons with the Los Angeles Clippers and one season each with the Miami Heat and Dallas Mavericks.
