"Da me Bog pitao dok sam bio u komi koga da poštedi izabrao bih Kobeja prije sebe"

Odom je s Lakersima uspio da dođe do titule u NBA ligi u generaciji koju je predvodio Kobe Bryant. Nakon završetka karijere imao je ozbiljnih problema jer se odao drogi i alkoholu.

Prije nekoliko godina je bio čak u komi, ali je uspio da se izvuče. Odom se oglasio jutros na društvenim mrežama nakon što je saznao da je Kobe Bryant poginuo u blizini Los Angelesa.

Odom je objavio emotivnu poruku na Instagramu i prisjetio se nekih trenutaka s Kobejem. Također, poručio je da bi radije da je Bog njega uzeo neko Bryanta.

"Ove slike su samo mali dio našeg prijateljstva. Naučio me mnogo toga u životu, ali i na parketu. Naš odnos je bio kao odnos učitelja i učenika koji mu je kasnije postao brat. Ne mogu da dođem sebi otkako sam čuo ove vijesti. Čak sam nekako očekivao da će on preživjeti u tom padu helikoptera, da će skočiti i dočekati se na noge. Još uvijek čekam da novinari kažu da je sve to bila greška. Nema šane da je Bog uzeo mog brata tako rano", napisao je Odom i dodao.

"Znam da sam zbog svojih problema prošao svašta u životu kada sam koristio drogu i nisam se prema sebi odnosio kako sam trebao. Kada sam bio u komi da me Bog pitao koga da poštedi od nas dvojice izabrao bih Kobeja. U čast mog brata u četiri ujutro idem u teretanu. Volim te brate".

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These picture are just the tip of the iceberg of our relationship. He taught me so many things in life that were necessary on and off the court. On the court he taught me how to carve out defenses and how to take my time. How to make winning my ultimate goal. Off the court he taught me to sign my own checks lol. Of course anyone who knows my story knows I’ve suffered a lot of loss but the only loss I can compare this to is when I lost my son. Even though our relationship wasn’t father/son, it was more like him being a teacher and me being his brother. I’m glad I got to be the ying to your yang as far as the locker room was concerned. It was my pleasure. I couldn’t even catch my breath today when I heard this news. I just knew if he was in a helicopter crash he would have been the one to survive. Somehow he would have jumped out and landed on his feet. I’m sitting here thinking about when we would be in practice scrimmaging and you would start the jump ball off with elbowing Sasha in the chest. Like dude it’s 10:30 in the morning lol. You think watching him play was crazy, you gotta think in practice if you scored like 8-9 buckets throughout the practice you had a great practice. I’ve seen him knock off 13-14 in a row in practice!!!! I’m still waiting for the media to come out and say wrong report. No way God took my brother this early. I know I been through my own stuff in life with using drugs and not being good to myself. When I went through that Coma situation if God would have came to me and said we would take me and spare Kobe I would have rather that happened. In honor of my brother I’m up at 4am tomorrow to get to the gym! Gigi gone give you buckets!!!! I love you brother 💔🙏🏿😥 @kobebryant

A post shared by Lamar Odom (@lamarodom) on Jan 26, 2020 at 2:57pm PST