Only two weeks ago, Kobe Bryant learned Lamar Odom was hospitalized after losing consciousness at a Las Vegas brothel, prompting the Lakers’ star to leave the team’s preseason game and rush to his former teammates side.
Then, Odom was not expected to make it. But plenty has changed since then. Odom was transported last week to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He started physical therapy. Those around the Lakers believe Odom will survive.
“It put things in perspective even more,” Bryant said on Tuesday in what marked his first comments about Odom since his ordeal. “This is what we do and this is not who we are.