Lamar Odom has revealed that Kobe Bryant had promised to help him with his gambling problems just weeks before the former NBA star died.
Khloe Kardashian's ex told NBA players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson on their All The Smoke podcast that he had accumulated huge debts through gambling and called his former teammate for help.
He described in detail how his debts had spiralled and how Kobe had scolded him for his habits. Lamar, 41, said: "I had been gambling.
It got a little too steep for where I was at at that time. "It was getting tight. And if you in a bad situation, especially about some money, [Kobe] ain't the one that you gonna wanna call." But he confessed that he "built up the strength" to contact Kobe and put his pride to one
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