Lamar Odom and Sasha Vujacic came from entirely different worlds but arrived together in Los Angeles with the Lakers 11 years ago. One was a talented veteran, trying to prove he could be an important piece to a championship team. The other was a 21-year-old kid from Europe just trying to prove he belonged.
"We played a long time together… we won together," Vujacic said on Wednesday. "We understood what it means to be in a band of brothers. What it means to go through a lot of things together. It's just life. It takes a different direction later on.