Lamar Odom Remembers Late Kobe Bryant on ‘Celebrity Big Brother’: ‘More Than Teammates’
usmagazine.comRemembering a legend. Nearly two years after Kobe Bryant’s death, fellow NBA athlete Lamar Odom is opening up about their friendship.“Kobe was my teammate on the Lakers and we were more than just teammates, we were like brothers,” the Darkness to Light author, 42, said during a confessional interview on the Saturday, February 19, episode of Celebrity Big Brother. “I haven’t really thought about how much I looked up to him but now that he’s not here, I really realize it.
That day [when I learned about his death], it just sticks in my memory forever.”Odom also shared his fond memories of meeting and working the late Pennsylvania native with several of his fellow houseguests.“I had a Kobe chain that was supposed to be sent to me,” the Khloé and Lamar alum told Cynthia Bailey, Shanna Moakler and Todrick Hall on the CBS reality TV show. “[He was] outspoken.
He gonna speak his mind. He’s always been about business. [I remember] we’re going to this basketball camp, he walks into the basketball camp [and] he’s got a briefcase. … You would see it in his face.
He would play injured, sick, he never missed no games.”He continued: “When he’s your teammate and becomes your brother, you feed off that.
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