Kobe Bryant has created a legacy in NBA that few can create. A five-time NBA championship winner. He was known for his inspirational mentality and drive to be the winner. To date, his teammates remember him fondly. It’s not for nothing. He inspired them to do greater things and was himself one of the best shooting guards in the NBA.
When he passed away in 2020, it created a hole in many teammates’ and fans’ hearts. One of them is Lamar Odom.
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Lamar Odom is honoring his friend and teammate Kobe Bryant in a special — and permanent — way. The former NBA star, 42, revealed that he recently got a new tattoo of Bryant, his former teammate on the Los Angeles Lakers. He did this after having a number of dreams about the late athlete during Odom’s time on Celebrity Big Brother.
“It’s just his face. It’s on my neck. When I was in the CBB house, I dreamed [of] him four or five times,” Odom told Page Six, with photos showing the black ink design. “They were really vivid and easy to remember because he was talking to me in the dreams,” Odom mentioned to the outlet that one of his dreams involved him having a 3-point shooting contest where they discussed the afterlife.
Kobe Bryant and Lamar Odom
Odom has often spoken about his relationship with Bryant following the NBA legend’s death. While appearing on the All the Smoke podcast with Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson last year, Odom said Bryant offered to help him with his gambling problems during one of their last phone conversations.
When Bryant passed away, along with his daughter, Gianna, and seven others in a helicopter crash in January 2020, Odom penned a touching tribute to him on social media.
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Together, they won back-to-back championships for the Los Angeles Lakers in 2009 and 2010. Odom was named the Sixth Man of the Year during the 2010-11 season.
Though Odom is only about a year younger than Bryant, he said that his former teammate taught him a lot.
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Kobe’s legacy is such that people still love him and Odom is definitely one of those.