Lamar Odom on Kobe, Khloe, Kardashian Curse, Taraji, Aaron Carter, Master P, Drugs (Full Interview)

all right here we go we have two-time nba champion lamar odom welcome to vlad tv what's up bro hey man longtime fan and you're someone that we've covered quite a bit over the years oh my tvs okay so thank you thank you it's definitely an honor to finally sit down and talk to you no i appreciate it my man i'm here well this is our first time sitting down so i want to get into your whole story so you were born and raised in south jamaica queens yup that's a fact lincoln park is my starting ground the first park where i started slaying okay and what was jamaica queens like in the 80s um turbulent um crack infested uh and of course we had you know basketball and rap music um but it was it was very insightful very educational to um especially i mean it's not a day that then went past that i wasn't in the park where everything was happening so i got uh my education hands on well uh your mother she went to rikers island yeah she was a lovely woman lovely woman officer mercer what was that like when she would come home you know and riker's a very notorious place yeah it is it is i mean i used to love it because especially want you to come home with um a shooting target and stuff like that and i i i felt safe because my uncle was a correctional corrections over songwriter's island as well so i know um you know she was well she was well looked after up there and i had a cousin that was locked up up here too but okay did she ever tell you any crazy stories about things that would happen at work um well i think the craziest thing she used to tell me where um we should like pass the the cells and she could like hair queefing and i was i was i was younger at that time but i kind of understood what that what that meant okay and your dad was a vietnam or vet yeah yeah okay and how was your relationship with your dad because he said he kind of he kind of came in and out yeah i mean my father my father was uh was a heroin addict oh when i was growing up so i mean he couldn't really take care of himself so let alone take care of me um but right now our relationship is a lot better growing strong i reach out to him make sure he's all right i love him only get one pops now in terms of his addiction did you ever see him using or is that something he kept completely separate nah well i don't know if i i ever seen him using but there was i mean i had to i knew what he was doing you know what i mean i know i knew something wasn't right um but i don't actually ever see him inject the heroin to his vein anything like that but i kind of you know was able to kind of put together what he was doing well you actually touched on this a little bit in the the mid 80s the late 80s that's when crack actually hit yeah uh queens and did you see the neighborhood start to change as that was happening oh yeah yeah um [ __ ] not just uh the neighborhood but people you know i'm saying people that you might have relationships through i mean my family moved to that neighborhood and my mother was born 1957. so my grandmother and grandfather had five children so my family kind of grew up in that neighborhood so i would say i i seen the the people change um on people that like knew your family or that might have been family friends you know walking around one day mouth full of teeth next time you see them they furniture need to be fixed you know what i'm saying and weight loss and just all kinds of things it was hectic well then at 12 years old you lost your mother yeah my mom's passed away uh from colon cancer right yeah although i lost my best friend that day i mean something like colon cancer usually it kind of takes a while to develop uh did you actually know about it when she had it and actually saw that i mean i saw the the progression of it um i remember she would got sick and um in january and then she passed with two days after the fourth of july so she passed july 6. so it was it happened pretty fast i kind of got to see it the day she passed away i was i was i was i was in the room not in the room but just left the room and um went home my grandmother told me today your mother she think my mother was gonna pass away and we went home and like 10-15 minutes later got the call that night um i just went to the park shot to shot the basketball like all night to the next morning that was like the first pass i got to stay out all night well because of that situation yeah that's tough that's tough and i guess the last thing she told you was be nice to everybody yeah yeah just be nice be a good boy but you know it's crazy because it's crazy because when my mom's passed away i kind of um i like lost all interest in school work for some reason but i had to rock though get me through it yeah yeah i'm sorry if you're lost man obviously that's all good we all go through thanks yeah i mean it still hurts you to this day obviously dude i mean you learn from it yeah well then at that point your grandmother uh raised you yeah bro she's a strong lady it's crazy because it's like she's things that she was telling me when i was little growing up like now at 41 i'm just starting to like really get my grandmother was born in 1923. i mean so i mean i was really like blessed to have two mothers you know yeah well you go to high school at uh christ to king regional high school uh for three years right yeah oh you did your homework bro oh yeah this is what i do yeah yeah this is what i do yeah and i guess uh your grades weren't really up to par yeah i left i wanted to i should have never left that school if i don't if i don't leave that school and i handled my business day i probably go to the nba out of high school though probably changed the whole course of my whole life but yeah i left the school because i wasn't i wasn't taking my business in the classroom and my aau coaches probably guys they got a little scared thought i wasn't going to graduate but then i think about it my au team my au program was adidas but my high school was nike so you can see the conflict and interest in that especially if you got the number one number two high school basketball player in the country um and i wound up leaving well when you played for the aau team i guess ron artest was actually on the team yeah no not on that team not not not towards my senior year but i did play um aau with ron artest and allen brand for riverside church okay and um [ __ ] that that aau team we were like like 63 and one had four pros yet eric barkley went on that team with us and speedy claxton and the backcourt yeah the crew and then i wound up going home with the long island panthers and they were adidas well and you also played in the mcdonald's all-american team in 97 yep i did and in that game was ron artest baron davis tracy mcgrady uh jason collins so you had some real powerhouses here we have some studs 97 was a great year for high school basketball some great names nba hall of famer and tracy mcgrady's nba hall of famer and i mean by the time you're playing in the mcdonald's all-american game you're essentially guaranteed an nba contract at that point pretty much everyone who plays in that game well you have you have i would say you have a great path probably have a head start but there have been some mcdonald's all-americans that haven't made it to the nba um a few a few most people make it to the nba though you're most likely gonna get a look right you're gonna get a look okay so here you are you're one of the top players in the country you know you're in the mcdonald's all-american game and i guess you're considering to go pro straight out of high school and you talked to kobe bryant about that yeah we i had um i had hung out with him um through the adidas connect because kobe bryant was adidas too and i had i was able to hang out with them um and we were able to talk a lot we were at a agent his name was on tele um and we actually played one on one that was a real competitive game i wish i wish they had that that game on tape that was that was a real competitive game but i just learned kobe was always giving me advice even before i um was able to join him with the lakers he was extra intelligent dude oh yeah and he who won that one-on-one game i don't even really i don't even think we were keeping score but we were just like we were just going at each other like possession every possession was like everybody made a good move it was real competitive though okay so you decide not to go pro and instead you enrolled in unlv yeah and things kind of went left they went all the way left yeah can you describe what happened well they said i cheated on my s.a.t i don't know how six nine black kid cheating s.a.t but he scored too high he scored too high the guy that took the test he he scored too high he scored too high so i guess uh they looked at my my average as a student and then looked at my s.a.t score and they like started investigating like the ncaa they got like federal fbi agents that's how serious they take it because they had like the uh the handwriting analysis and all that with the testing they was they were able to prove that i didn't take the score i mean i didn't take the test so the corporate okay so so 20 something years later you admit that someone else took the test yeah okay so you just paid someone someone off to that's the whole you know everybody in new york city you know i mean basketball new york city is like the um the hot bed a hot bed for basketball talent right but do you know how many great basketball players weren't able to play college basketball because of that damn test so in new york if you got a good player and you want him to play in um division one basketball they're gonna get it done that's like in an aau world they're gonna say you get it done and so they got it done for me we just got caught okay and how much should it cost to pay this guy oh i have no idea well i mean after this whole thing kind of broke out about the test i guess uh there was a an investigation and they said that you would receive fifty six hundred dollars in illicit payments from boosters which caused the coach of unlv uh bill bano to get fired and unlv to be placed on probation for four years but i would have if they caught them doing it then they caught them doing it i you know i can't say what happened maybe they caught him doing it but fifty six hundred dollars i was no one playing the country i would think it would be like fifty six thousand right it's not a lot of money it's not a lot of money especially not that you could not lose your job yeah but they i mean they got answers they got eyes everywhere yeah bro you got to have your your [ __ ] tight to be an ncaa coach well because of the whole thing that happened unlv you're transferring to university of rhode island yeah that was that's another good story the reason why i went to university of rhode island because i was going to go to ucla and jim harrick gets fired a year before on november 6 which is my birthday so when he got fired he got the job at university of rhode island i knew i'm the assistant coach that was at the university of rhode island and i said i still better go to school i'll be away but still get the college experience it was a perfect fit for me perfect time well how was that experience once you got the road out oh that's why i went to school really you know what i'm saying to be the man on campus is incredible incredible feeling right and once you got to rhode island you just started dominating at that point yeah i was able to play i was able to you know be my best self it's the best time in my life one of the best times of my life right you were a first team all-conference atlantic 10 rookie the year yeah multiple player the atlantic 10 tournament i think i broke all the um the atlantic 10 uh freshman records it was cool and then i hit that shot against temple which was um credible confidence booster uh in my nba career and that's crazy the best part of that night was then we got back to the um we got back to the hotel and i guess the whole state of rhode island was waiting for us and uh open the hotel door they just went crazy i never forget that night i forget that night well i guess it was around that time that you ended up having your first baby yeah my daughter was born destiny was born that summer yeah i was 19 when i went to league 19 i had my first child okay so now you're a teenage dad yeah getting ready to go getting ready to go in the nba right was that tough though i mean to be a dad at that point um i don't even think you i'm even putting into perspective like that you know i just kind of know that um i'm gonna have some money in my pocket and all gonna be all right because of that um at that point i'm not even really thinking about the uh the birthdays and christmases and things like that i'm more of you know is my child i can i can look at it and tell she's my child i'm just proud well you ended up declaring uh eligibility for the 99 draft and i guess you you end up changing your mind but since you'd already signed with an agent yeah i wanted yeah i wanted to go back i wanted to go back i wanted to go back so i really wanted to because at that time you know when i was at chrysler king we were always you know ranked top team in the country and um even i went to when i went to prep school we had we played a really a really tough schedule um we played oak hill twice at oak hill and beat them one time i don't know if you know anything about basketball but you really don't go into oak hill and get a win so no seriously so um i consider myself like a winner you know i just hit that game winning shot versus temple we're bringing the same team back we got steph stefan mulberry brother coming next year like we could have really been all right i think i could have led them deep into the tournament which i really wanted to do but it happened like that because i already signed what i needed well i mean regardless of whether you changed your mind you end up getting drafted you're a fourth overall pick in the first round and you got picked by the clippers yeah which how it's so crazy because i just think about my career and like while he's derby i got picked fifth all right so i think about if i was able to get if i would have been blessed enough to be able to get picked fifth and play and learn from kevin garnett and the atmosphere and what he was doing how he was trying to win how he understood being young and you know trying to be great and living in that greatness that would have been so much better for me than going to the clippers and partying in la those first three years smoking marijuana not having anybody to learn from you know even though i had some great teammates on my but they were they were all young they were still trying to get paid trying to get out of their first contracts you know what i'm saying we prac we were practicing uh in southwestern junior college no disrespect to junior college i'm still friends with um shout out to my man man from duke college but we couldn't even take showers with nba team that's crazy you know it's just they just the um the organizations at the time were totally different as well and what they put into their players and you know and trying to win well donald sterling was the owner at that time yeah exactly now the years later he gets kicked off the team for racism did you see any of that as a player for the clippers nah but i could just imagine no seriously i mean he's gonna do some weird [ __ ] though such as like coming into our locker room you know and what just gawking okay you know what i'm saying commenting on how handsome the players are i just was just wild [ __ ] this oh okay it's just his own his his his old approach was just different it was weird put you in a weird place no disrespect to him but he ain't paying me either so good i mean were you surprised when he got uh no for saying the [ __ ] i'm surprised that he got caught that he was that careless but okay but you are now in the nba yeah and did you get a good salary coming into the nba oh it was a fourth pick yeah so i was making maybe like two or three a year the fourth pick at that time was for four picks maybe over three years or maybe 12 million i think i'm not mistaken i could be a lot of time has passed since then i was with my head was screwed on straight and i was like i'm all upside down okay so here you are you're what 19 20 years old at this point and now you're a millionaire playing the game that you've been you know devoting your entire life to yeah how did that feel to be part of that i mean it's hard because i that was like the only like path for me that was my destiny that was that's what i manifested was you know that's what i've seen when i was 10 years old when i used to tell my mother i was going to get her that big house and i'm saying that she wasn't gonna have to work anymore i just nothing was gonna take me off of both of off of that um that path no grades no i kind of yeah i believe in god so i kind of understood at that time you know my fate was so it was i was i was in a real comfortable place yeah and i'm sure it was kind of bittersweet i mean again not to have you know what's so crazy that you say that because i used to tell darius and um and the younger dudes on my team like yo y'all get to play in front of your moms like yeah you know what i'm saying y'all really lucky yeah well you come out and you know you come out strong in the nba uh i mean first season average 16.6 points 7.8 rate rebounds four point two assists gpa all rookie team my first game i had thirty mm-hmm right i had thirty yeah it's yeah in some ways i wish i just wish it was tougher because i wish i would just just work work or work work work right you know like i let i let too many summertime like two too many summers go by where basketball was second but i was just that good that i could you know it could be second i could still come through like i said i didn't have i didn't at that time i didn't have the big brother to be like yo come on let's go get in the gym you know i mean i was i was the oldest one on the team because you you the most powerful if you got the most money what are you saying i just wish i had a different uh at that time i would say like a big brother like i know my my habits would have been totally different if i'd have been around and do like garnett my first three years my first four years it would have made me be a better teammate to my young dudes on the team well in your second season you did even better uh you start in 74 games you average 17.2 points a game but along the way you know during the four seasons with the clippers you got suspension twice yeah for smoking weed for smoking blood and they don't even get tested no more right i need to get a marijuana deal like asap because marijuana oh me because you when you get fined you first of all when you get suspended you get fined they take your money because you miss games then you get to like you you get the bad name well in march 2001 you got to spend it for five games for the marijuana and then uh i guess eight months later you get suspended again yeah now listen i i smoke weed every day too yeah i mean but it just shows it just shows a lack of discipline and like i get it you know you young black kid then i'm asking somebody to pay me what was the max at that time 92 million dollars so i couldn't even really even like ask for that but but at that time as far as on the court that was just like you would just think you know sean marion brand those guys i got drafted with they all got it you know what i'm saying i know i was just as good [ __ ] cost me 30 million dollars what the [ __ ] that's a lot of money man even they say you can't miss nothing you ain't never had but [ __ ] what the [ __ ] i'm missing it so you missed out 30 million hell yeah i'll probably still be spending some of that money now right 30 million because of smoking weed so i don't even know who to blame me or like my friends because i know i wasn't smoking it by myself i know these [ __ ] know i got a test too nobody would be like yo why don't you chill because that's what i would do if you was in the nba if vlad was an nba and i'm your man i'm hanging out with you every day living off you and i know that you gotta pass the test i'm gonna make sure you don't smoke weed so we can keep living this lifestyle off black right like nobody gonna say lemon chill out it's crazy is it because you had a bunch of yes men around you at that time i mean i guess they had to be yes man yeah at that time even the ones that are not now they might not be yes-men but i guess at that time they was living in a yes man world real rap i mean did you have like a huge entourage of guys that you were paying for you know how yeah i'm new york number you know even that with that little two three man yeah you bring the hood with you biggest mistake in my life but that's what you do you're not like three or four people well you paying and it's so crazy when i come to think about it like i'm paying three or four man right yeah to eat sleep when i shop you go shopping right but then i got to go to up and go to practice every day while they're at home living off you because let me tell you i interviewed andre rison and he had a 40-person entourage that he was paying for everybody grown men like they were his children and and he said yeah you know he just like having these guys around and he would just i don't know no i can't [Music] hey you know ain't no company that that good that that much fun no way okay okay so then in the 2003 season you get transferred to the miami heat and now you're playing with dwyane wade but before that i got to play with um four um you know my favorite player growing up was magnus johnson and so i get to wind up playing for maggie johnson's coach and at that time who i consider the coach of the knicks still was pat riley you know what i'm saying so i kind of get to learn from that tutelage and at that point in my career i was like probably what i needed told me discipline and how to play how to go to how to use my strengths defense rebound change my mindset as a player so you had a good experience in miami amazing family oriented everything we did was together um shout out to you down as haslam i think they might even retire his number that's how much they kind of like believe in family down there right because the average 17.1 17.1 points and you had a career high of 9.7 rebounds i should have made also a game i agree i agree i agree but when you're smoking pot you don't get that look i think it was like me or like kenya martin we're like the two power forwards that yeah coming out the east where they could have won one you know well well then right around the same time you end up being on the olympic team yeah okay now that's my example like how do you make the olympic team but you don't make the austral team crazy crazy yo i don't understand that how do you make the olympic team but don't make doors up to well in the 2004 olympic team it's you lebron james allen iverson stefan marbury dwyane wade carmelo anthony uh amari tim duncan that's him i'll just marry i wish carlos boozer i wish i wish that i wish everybody could have bought in well explain explain to me how you have a team with those players on it well you know you guys you guys end up winning the bronze yeah because you got to understand like you got it because it was just a disconnect between the players and the coaches huh right the first game the first meeting that we had whatever i think uh allen might have been late whatever then they no seriously then they get held out of a game they get held out of the first game i think do your research on this d-wade the first game we played think the way to lebron or d-way lebron or allen iverson might have got held out of the game or might have held out of the first half or something like that if i'm not mistaken and so then you know you like you got pop and where's the head coach who's the head coach in that team larry you know what's his name i'mma read so bad pop his assistant larry brown is the coach crazy ill old school guy two old school guys okay but then you got the new school guys they and you got mellow it was just like it was disconnect so we couldn't get the best out of those guys to hey we had stefan and alan iverson in the backcourt with mello braun andy wade anton duncan and i'm laurie sodomiah yeah bronze medal with all those guys right because it was it was disconnect and we couldn't never really get it back and that's too bad because i was embarrassed i'm still embarrassed to talk about it now they were there but they were jerking us too on tim duncan and foul trouble he fouled out one game if i'm not mistaken it was in foul trouble like two games two big games in a row the gentle giant i use he's never in foul trouble in the nba well i guess use a prosthetic penis to to pass the drug test oh yeah in the past i did i did i had to play yeah no offense usa but you know it is what it is i mean when we interviewed when we interviewed mike tyson he was using that same prosthetic penis to pass his drug test so i guess it's pretty common this is so funny i was talking to um a baseball player here out in atlanta and he said he was using a prosthetic penis but in a whistle he got caught because it whistled it told a story on him his fake penis snitched on him okay so then in 2004 you get traded to the lakers and of course kobe's on that team now how was it like to be on that lakers team in 2004 um i mean for me it's exciting because i get to be kobe bryant's sidekick at that time um that's before the triangle offense um i think we had rudy tomjanovich oh but it wasn't successful um not by laker standards like not making a playoffs it's like you might not want to go outside in l.a if you were like a um not over there not over the purple and gold i might be with the other um a team is used to or accustomed to or maybe even accept put out the later well the master p did an interview and he said that you stopped him almost getting into a fight with kobe bryant what happened there he said that to you not to me he said it in an interview oh you heard him say it yeah well well and okay so you know you're practicing with the lakers you know people might just come pop up you know what i'm saying you might whatever you might not say nothing you might even catch eye contact with them but you you know notice that whatever well i guess for whatever reason you know p came to our practice and the aura or the energy or the timing of it it didn't really being kind of just really wasn't feeling it but i'm saying so you gotta understand these are two you know alpha males right and their own what they do and just this is awkward you feel me so i'm from the street right so i can peep it you know what i'm saying so i'm just gonna like just just dead it but it was it was awkward it's awkward okay so you got in the middle of them to actually stop yeah it wasn't like getting to the middle but i'm just making i'm just gonna check both of their temperature make sure everything is cool you feel me yep i'm gonna use myself jamaica queens instinct you feel what i'm saying right everything's cool dandy come on let's get back to practice but it was just bad it was just the energy was just off between them too got it okay so like you mentioned this was i guess only the fifth time in lakers history that they didn't make the playoffs see i didn't exactly even though you yourself had a good year 15.2 points per game average uh 10.2 rebounds but things aren't really gelling uh now kobe who's you know crazy competitive no was he was he just going through it during that year i mean well you got you well because he had just gotten shot traded for you to you know i mean that you coming in was part of shaq going uh uh going to orlando right so there was like that whole and if i'm if i'm not mistaken did it my aunt did up did miami make the finals that yeah but yeah i mean kobe yeah he's gonna if he you know if you'll be have you around him and y'all not winning um nobody's producing i think who got that who got that raft the most i think my smush might have got that right after most well here you are you're playing for the lakers and things are going great for you you know overall you know in terms of your career but then but then a tragedy happens in uh in december 15th of 2005 you end up losing your son oh yeah uh at six months old yeah he died he died in his crib uh at that point in your life was that the hardest thing you went through after the loss of your mom and my grandmother and my mother now i don't think i'm gonna ever go any um go to anything as hard as that only if something happened to one of my kids that's living now um i think the hardest part for that for me um then when i had to go play basketball right so i don't know you know trying to try to think was that i mean i didn't even i wasn't sober i didn't even cry his funeral or anything like that because i just felt like i couldn't have my family you know the leader of the family see see me on my knees to see me you know with no strength and you know weak i was like out of body yeah it was tough yeah well my condolences it's so good didn't i remember we had to go play against um i mean we played against phoenix all right meanwhile i have i ain't work out i ain't even touchable the whole and phoenix was competitive that yeah and i think that game we played without kobe we might have won that game so i had a pretty good game just so for emotion i remember like going back to the bench like crying sometimes like in tears well it was tough though it made me stronger maybe well then uh in the 2005 season phil jackson comes back how big of a difference was it with phil jackson coaching the lakers because i mean generally phil jackson is considered the greatest coach in nba history well he got the most championships yeah he should be right coach some amazing players though but they go hand in hand you know great coaches and great players go hand in hand for some reason um i think phil was like the um he was like the life reserver like we kind of knew that we were going to be like we would be all right we had kobe we had phil the tradition you know we knew that we would get on good on point we had some pieces to it be right i think we got buying them and then then i knew we were able to get pal i kind of knew that they were we would take us over the top well and then by 2008 you guys make it to the finals but you guys ended up losing to the celtics how did it feel to get to your first nba finals and lose alex how are you that's a hard question to answer uh because we just not only lost they beat our ass um x6 game you know in that sixth game they beat us so bad they wouldn't even let out that our bus leave they were like shaking our bus we were leaving so god knows what would happen if we didn't win that game um it was a a a a short short short short hurt and then you know you got you got your party on for a week or two and then was my jazz right back in the gym right back in l.a like getting ready for the season and the whole team had the same um mindset that we were going to go back to the finals next year everybody was on the same it was on the same time we just knew it well i guess around that time you admit uh taraji p henson i don't when we won the first championship i don't know if it was around roughly around that time possibly yep possibly you guys uh you guys dated for a while i guess you said it was one of the happiest times of your life yeah she was a beautiful beautiful young lady beautiful young lady amazing what happened what happened that relationship um i think i met a young lady named chloe right around that time and i wish i would have been uh like a bigger man i wasn't really how it kind of ended with taraji i wish i was just like bossed up you know what i'm saying just just kind of like let it fizzle out well yeah in 2009 you met chloe and i guess after dating for a month you guys got engaged we got married after a month married after a month my bad that's all good okay what how did you guys decide did you get married after one month yeah pro i don't know it was one of those things like when you know you know you know and um i thought i was doing it i mean i know i did the right thing another situation i just wish i would have handled it right so what was that like now you're in the kardashian world and you're actually showing up on the show keeping up the kardashians yeah later on you have your own show but for now you're just showing up on keeping up the kardashians yeah i mean i was uh first of la laker now i'm a hollywood star so it's like you're getting the best of both worlds you know what i'm saying right and um approach from everybody every getting the red carpet everywhere you go um whether it's show related or whether it's show related or athletic related your athletic royalty and um hollywood royalty and incentives a lot to grabs a lot i was 29 years old boy if i could have some talks the 41 year old lamar can help me talk to the 29 year old or more keep your dick in your pants huh sorry i was saying keep your dick in your pants is what i would tell them i would probably fight them well then next season phil jackson decides to move you to the bench as a sixth man now initially you weren't too happy about that no no i was that was my free agent yeah with them i think i was trying to get another 60 another 70. um i was in a good groove but i mean i think me and me and being we me and bean we were already like really close and and growing extremely close but i think when i had decided to take that role after him talking to me and pulling me to the side and let me know how important it was to have a person as good as me in that position with that role and that responsibility um i couldn't say no to it really well with that new role you guys end up winning the nba finals yeah it's so funny because i i think the first the first the second year that i accepted that role andrew wound up getting hurt and wind up missing like 14 21 games or something like that you know i like stepped my scoring up when he um when he went out so everything happened for a reason i guess at that time well how did it feel i mean because you had been to the finals and you lost and then in 2009 you actually win the finals yeah how did that feel after such a long journey to get to that point um well i think the best part of of winning a championship is is winning it um wit and for the name across your chest but then winning it with the people with their names on their back so i guess you know you're winning the barn that you know has to be gain and put together on that jersey for you to get that far and actually win it the barn that's secure secured and that is the most memorable like i can call any of those guys right now i have a conversation and it takes to pick up off like we just like we just played that game yeah i mean i've interviewed ron artest and he speaks very highly of you yeah that's my god i've known ron since i was like [ __ ] 12. we've been evil like playing against or with each other yeah for that long well that next season i guess there was a some talk of you going back to miami but ultimately you end up staying with the lakers you you know signed a four-year 33 million dollar deal uh ron artest joined the join the team as well yeah uh was that the most money you ever made went to 33 million yeah no the most money i ever made was when i went to miami ah now okay but it's still a big check yeah somebody pay you a million dollars for playing basketball that's a lot of money oh my god right okay and then in 2010 that year you guys make it to the finals again and you win it you beat the celtics this time yeah now how did that feel to lose to the celtics two years before and then finally win it oh you can just imagine you know what i'm saying you uh you you own the lakers i mean just just regular season games against the celtics is like unlike big games so you can imagine how it is if you meet them in the finals win lose a draw against them it's like that's like the biggest rivalry in basketball um so to win that is like you got your peak yo you know your athletic peak as far as winning and losing the only thing is that you want to do again is win another one and hopefully you can beat the ass again you know what i'm saying or whatever team you um you're bound to face but you just want to you know just keep running them off at that time at that point and that was a beautiful morning for me too because uh my ex-wife bought me a phantom so i woke up i woke up with a championship and a new phantom alongside of my children right so now you have two rings yeah uh and then that next season was another solid season for you you had uh career highs and three-point shooting and overall field goal percentage that's the year that we got swept by to dallas right yeah i think so i think so yeah that was a um that was a real bittersweet year for me because i won i i won six men a year that year exactly i was going to say that and that was it the same year me and my ex-wife we were filming a reality show so kudos to them because i don't think that nobody's gonna be able to do that [ __ ] again right uh and you guys did uh chloe lamar which lasted uh two seasons uh but i guess when they started filming it you weren't really feeling it filming the show yeah no i was all in with the chloe tomorrow oh you were okay my mistake now anything any i'll be honest anything that um the kardashians were involved with me and i was i was on it at that point in my life i knew what it was about okay so you win sixth man of the year you know you got two rings under your belt uh and then in 2011 uh tragedy struck you had a 24 year old cousin who got shot in the head and killed yeah and then you go to the funeral and shortly afterwards there was a car accident that happened yeah oh no no i'm gonna tell you this story and you got the right story but the um okay so i'll go see my cousin in the hospital you know he's in the hospital his eyes rolling back in his head he's brain dead or whatever and then i go to queens go get a haircut okay when i go to queens get the haircut i get back in the car this [ __ ] stupid driver hands me the phone i guess somebody i know was on the phone he hands me the phone he's trying to make a left turn while he hands me the firm stick head runs into a guy on a motorcycle the motorcycle boom boom goes in here lands on the sidewalk and hits a kid that's standing on the sidewalk now this is right after i just came from seeing my cousin in the hospital yeah and my cousin is dead so i kind of know what death looks like because i just seen it on my cousin and the guy on the motorcycle was he all [ __ ] up he's screaming his leg is all busted but the kid it was a kid that got hit by the motorcycle so i walked up to the kid and i think because i just seen my cousin i just seen what def looks like i looked at the kid i said oh [ __ ] this kid is dead like i knew he was dead you know cuz i just seen my cousin you know what i'm saying and what deaths look like so i'm all [ __ ] up in there so i called chloe it's like chloe i just came from seeing curtis and i told her you know what happened and i said this kid is laying here dead now she's bugging out like tomorrow get your ass in the car you know you don't want this to happen to you yeah and that's how that's how my summer went yeah then i got traded to dallas right hmm who at the time were the defending nba champs but i don't give a [ __ ] this is like on a low that's like another like slick rival to us like i don't really respect him at all i want to buzz nowinski's ass i i'm not looking forward to you know but i told mark cuban i told him how my summer was and where my head was at and then it probably wouldn't be a good look then i get there and i'm like i never played for owner that's doing nothing against my cube good guy it's just his method to his madness is completely different like i've nev i wasn't used to owners doing interviews before the games you know what i'm saying i'm not saying that jerry buss is the best owner i'm just coming from a different cut from a different cloth and i'm definitely not used to you know having bad games and the owner of the team is my biggest heckler you feel what i'm saying after i told this man you know how my summer wasn't where my head was at i didn't really appreciate it i mean because you know john sally's a regular guest on my show and he's always told me that the players and the owners really don't talk to each other the general manager and the players you have a buffer you got a buffer exactly not too much yeah except when uh and but you know that's where you know personality comes into play because with jerry bust you can talk to him anytime you want and on the road you can pull up in his room you can go to his room you know what i'm saying but his personality as a as a man is completely different than mark humans well i guess there was a game uh against the memphis grizzlies oh you're talking about that vince carter saved his ass right i guess uh mark cuban he didn't like the way i was playing he put his feet on me and um just a bad choice of motivation makes motivational tools you're older than me of course you know from different cultures different backgrounds i don't know where the [ __ ] oh who like you don't never put your feet on nobody to try to like you must only way that could have possibly worked if he was like my father you know what i mean or uncle where i like looked up to him that much where i knew i could i had to be like [ __ ] up that bad where he like kicked me well like you know he wasn't a kick it wasn't a karate kick just a little nudge to my shin what he did it was with his foot hey well i was playing so bad and playing so bad for the marriage at that time i could possibly say mark cuban i'm sorry i could see where you had to prove your point because you're paying me a lot of money and i was performing way under um where i should have been so i'm gonna say well i'm i could excuse you for that but don't ever do that to another black man because he might [ __ ] you up okay so after that you got traded back to the clippers but it seems like things were starting to kind of decline for you at that point yeah well i was you know i did a lot of a lot of this time i'm like high in my drug use too you know you know what i'm saying so that one year with the clippers i don't know if you remember where i was like i came in like really really really overweight so i was coming out of rehab but you know and with the lead you can't you can't admit just saying that you're in the rehab because you could suspend it okay so were you using around that time i was i came out of a rehab that's why i was so big okay and what were you doing at that point what was drug coke coke okay what what drove you to that drug at that point to do coke oh man stupidity curiosity i would you know you you like we talk about my background you probably would think for my father and about the area i grew up in that i would never [ __ ] around with drugs um you know but that's the one thing when you uh when you play around in that field and this is my message to everybody you might not think you're an addict but the first time that you you do something it could trigger you and to a place where you can't even get it back and you know i couldn't get it back so i quote found myself in rehab and then you're in rehab and you realize oh [ __ ] got a month left to the season okay but you're still married to chloe at that time how is she taking the drug use in the rehab well she was just being a wife supportive of everything i've done how i was doing she's gonna hold me down no matter what incredible woman well after that season with the clippers you became a free agent but no nba team picked you up and then you started to hear about all the all the drama with the marriage and and everything else like that um you know first it was the cheating rumors then it was the drug rumors and everything else like that uh once that started coming out how much of a strain was that in your marriage i was how much you think that [ __ ] if you getting caught and with infidelity and you know using drugs so you're hurting the brain right you could just imagine you could just remember now you were close to rob uh kardashian at that point yeah that's my brother uh i guess at one point he uh confronted you about the cheating rumors and you didn't really say anything he never did i can't remember that that never happened okay i can't remember that i could imagine all the stuff that y'all probably get sent and pushed you away but yeah i'm trying to keep it um as a buck with you as possible sure but i can't really go over that rob he's non-confrontational and if like if he if he ever did i couldn't imagine it being like like i said like confrontational like to back me down like yo the [ __ ] is going on with you like you know what i mean like maybe like in the playful way maybe he can slide it in but he never really confronted me like that well you know rob is going through his own set of issues uh you know he ends up gaining a lot of weight and i mean from your point of view did rob just not like the whole kardashian reality show all of our you know our whole life is on display for the world or or what was it with rob you know what you know that's the question i think only rob could really really answer because everyone else would i could only what do you think be a million things you know just think about if rob kardashian the person maybe he maybe he doesn't want to be famous imagine living imagine living in that imagine like if it [ __ ] kills you that people like know who you are know where your sisters are know every move you make and you don't want it to be like that that should have eat you up not everybody adapts to the spot like the same yeah some people run away from it there was always the rumor that floated around that that rob really hated that there was a sex tape of of kim kardashian and that's initially how they came you know became famous well i mean well you're a man yeah so that wouldn't be that but i i don't know anything like that you know i have i've never heard that or ever witnessed that so i i can't really say well then in december 2013 chloe files for divorce uh uh it was 2013. uh yeah december 2013. and when she finally filed were you surprised did you think that you guys could still work it out or was it like okay i've been messing up this is probably the best course of action at this point well i mean honestly if a woman actually will shoot if you know you don't did everything wrong you got to do a lot right now at that point i'm just going to give her what she wants what's your actual yeah yeah you know when when it comes to the kardashians and the men associated with with the various kardashian uh women you always hear the kardashian curse uh you know you're obviously part of this story um you know caitlyn jenner kanye where he is right now uh scott disick you know people like to paint this type of story but that's stupidity because everybody go through [ __ ] your dumb asses if i had your family on tape and seeing all the [ __ ] that your family was going through people be like yo this [ __ ] family is crazy you see all the drug addicts all the sex so they share their life with you so you see everything maybe it's overexposed but is it people love it peop the people that made them or the people that point the fingers i don't it's like it's it's kind of like sickening a little bit and it now lives it from the inside in from the outside you know so i've got to from the outside look see you know how people react to them and it's still hard for me to figure out the love hate that people have for them because the little girl's a billionaire yeah these same people that like y'all made her a billionaire yep crazy so it's just like i don't know i'm just able i was just lucky enough to have some of that stardust fall off on me at one point in my life and i mean and let me keep it real with you and i don't really want to like take nothing you know take anything away from who i am and what i've built but i don't i know like in some ways it's the reason why i'm still relevant to this day because i'm not playing ball no more ain't no ain't no more highlights on me no more you [ __ ] you you know everything already you feel what i'm saying i know if i want to ask for a certain amount on an interview i know my worth but come on man let me keep when we keep it a buck and this goes to anybody that knows me or knows them all it ain't about taking chloe back over you or i know why i still get a look and the looks that i still get is due to some is a lot of it is because of the love that they gave me real rap and [ __ ] anybody that goes against that well uh your oldest daughter uh destiny mm-hmm she described her marriage to chloe as toxic uh she said well she received it but destiny don't you know forgive her forgive what did jesus said forgive them for they know not what they do she was young she and she was you know forced to like stay away from from chloe at one point she didn't even was not even allowed at our wedding you know and i don't even wanna i didn't come here to do this interview to expose you know my daughter you know what someone might be teaching her how to live or whatever but that's the fat real fact what she said which is kind of my point this is that she said i wouldn't say it was a matter of my dad loves chloe more than me i think that my dad has an addictive personality so my dad was addicted to the attention that he got with chloe more than me well she was wrong she was wrong i was more popular than chloe at that time there you go well then you end up getting busted for a dui and i guess what the weird part about this is um i guess you were in the valley on the 101 freeway yeah and you get pulled over for driving 50 miles per hour for what for driving 50 miles per hour yeah i've never even heard of someone getting pulled over for driving 50. but that's why i didn't blow into that damn breathalyzer yeah because i knew why they pulled me over they thought they were going to be finding something else you know what i'm saying but that i'm still paying for that now because i want my damn license now so i still don't got my license now because of that jm dui well right because i guess when you refuse to blow into the breathalyzer you automatically get your license taken away for a year yeah yeah you ended up uh i guess pleading no contest and i can't remember all this [ __ ] he got foreign and have to take alcohol education class uh well then in 2014 you end up uh signing to the knicks yeah but you know at that at that at that point right there like that was just like my my heart wasn't really into playing no basketball you know how i know that because i've never got back in shape and and fully back in basketball shape after that going overseas really quick playing spain yep um wish that could have worked out but my back gave out on me i never really took it serious again after that well then in june of 2015 your close friend jamie ends up dying he passed away and then your other friend bobby hayward ends up dying a few days later now how did that hit you um they were both really really heavy really heavy especially if they were back to back um uh they were hard especially jamie's because i got to see jamie not too long before he passed away and um i wasn't really prepared for it it took me off it was took me off guard well leading up to october 2015. do you think that the death of jamie and bobby was sort of what led you down that path downward power well you know the whole the whole brothel situation the whole brother situation that was that happened because i was chloe you got your dates mixed up oh okay yeah i was that happened um chloe i was in a bad place i decided to go um get some ass i used to always see that um that uh reality show on hbo let's see yeah i'm gonna go there one day and while out well let me tell you a quick little quick story about that night so i get there that night the lady picks me up i did not do drugs in like black okay and i i mean i you know i forgot how you know for a little bit of my adult life you know i'm saying i just chose to don't do things i shouldn't do but that night my right-handed guard i ain't doing any drugs but as a drug addict i will tell you a little funny right now and i will tell you that whatever they gave me or slitting me that night as a drug addict i wish they would tell me because it [ __ ] me up whatever that [ __ ] was it really [ __ ] me up okay well the chain of events that night you decide to go to the love ranch brothel in nevada yeah and i guess you would pay ten thousand for a three-room sweep well i paid i don't even i can't i couldn't even tell you that's how you know bad they [ __ ] me up that night my memory and all that [ __ ] is it's trash well one of the workers at the love ranch uh a transgender named madison montag claimed that you were there to see her okay we're going to say yes to that or no hell no i i mean claim didn't see her did i talk to him did i know her the way the way she described in an interview that you were supposed to see her but then when you arrived and they they you know the girls line up she says she wasn't picked instead you went with uh these two girls ryder cherry and monica monroe okay but but this is the story she's running with that's why i want to just put that out there okay i don't know i've never heard yeah i've never heard any of the rumors yeah it's a rumor okay so you go into the room and you know you're you're saying that you were completely drug-free the story that came out was that you were taking cocaine and ten viagra type did i tell you i would i'm not going to sit hand i'm going to tell you what i told you i'm just going to leave it at that yeah i didn't take all drugs that night and then later on when i guess you were on the view you said that the owner of the brothel dennis hoff you said he'd try to kill you you [ __ ] right he did if i'm telling you if i didn't do drugs that night and somebody drugged me i'mma blame it on the owner okay so you think he drugged you yes okay and you think that was one and in the drinks i don't know i can't bro i was asleep bro okay and dennis off i believe he's dead and he's the [ __ ] dick passed away in the same room i was in wow karma hit his ass how you drive how do you die heart attack probably off the same [ __ ] he gave me [ __ ] excuse my language because he's passed away no disrespect to him but come on dennis hall and then my old manager had texts from the workers there saying why would dennis do that to lamar huh why do you think he was why do you think he tried to kill you i have no idea okay i have no idea i mean do you remember like how long were you in that in that suite until bro unconscious no idea next thing i know i'm waking up to all everything that y'all seen on tv i'm waking up to okay you had done an interview i think with kevin hart and you said that you had 12 strokes and six heart attacks that's a fact you're in critical condition i'll be honest a lot of people didn't not think you were going to make it i had 12 strokes six heart attacks the doctors didn't think i i made it whenever i go like to see the sign now they like hold a parade from him like walking miracle i was gone they told my family to go see your your final goodbyes it was over right i guess chloe was told that you have four hours left to live again you probably know more than me because i was asleep bro like yeah i can't tell you what was said about me i was gone i was done right you were on dialysis uh i mean i mean honestly like reading up about this and i remember we were reporting on it but really reading up about it like i i am completely amazed that you're alive right now considering what you went through everybody that even worked on me or worked my case whatever you want to say they all kind of give me the same answers that you gave me yeah you know but it's all good well and i guess chloe and some of the other family members were at your bedside when you woke up kids my daughter okay how did that feel when you woke i mean how did it feel when you woke up and they told you what just happened well i couldn't express my thoughts i couldn't walk or talk when i woke up so here i am big six nine you know in shape athlete now i can i go hang out one night i wake up i can't walk or talk really confused hurt angry um but really confused and hurt at that time asking myself um how did i get here how i get out um there confused and hurt like date like really days really day well i remember i interviewed uh ron artest around that time and uh you know he said that when he found out that you were in the hospital you know not only was he hurt but he hated everybody yeah and i guess him and kobe got together to try to help you out [Music] do you remember that time no i mean i can't again you gotta understand you know what happened to me it just really wasn't just like the average [ __ ] that happens to somebody every day yeah okay like when you have strokes and [ __ ] your whole it's hard you like get it back get you're cognitive right your cognitive ability gets disrupted right and you're having struggles you should like that so i had grandmother no i'm just gonna say my grandmother had a stroke and her entire right side was paralyzed for the rest of her life exactly that's that's what happens in strokes exactly so if you think about it i had 12 of the [ __ ] it's crazy i couldn't walk i couldn't when i woke up i couldn't hold my bowels man huh all right so just thinking i just just think of this just so just think of this let me give you a nice just think about the recovery all right so now i'm in the hospital trying to learn how to walk and talk again think how humbling this is i'm lamar odom okay so obviously all these people at the hospital know who i am i can't walk or talk and i gotta have these nurses they gotta come change me like every i was like reverted to a baby yeah and i think the only reason why well one of the reasons why god probably chose to to save me because there's no way that he probably like this too good of a dude i can't have him down have a drug overdose hanging over his head so let me let me spare him with that even though his role his role back is going to be hard and and humbling and i don't even think i'm over over it yet because i left my cognitive um therapy too soon because i started walking and talking i started feeling myself right and in your defense what you said previously um the district attorney uh in nye county ended up not charging for any drug possession it would have been hard for him to find it because i have none on me well you get through all this you you survive 12 strokes and six heart attacks you you get your speaking ability back your walking ability you know you go to the bathroom by yourself you get your intelligence back and so forth but then you go back to getting intoxicated again because in 2016 you get kicked off of a flight um because you were drunk and i guess that was that was that was some [ __ ] i wasn't drunk you weren't i and be honest i can't even even remember getting kicked off a flight to be honest with you show me where that i don't even remember that happening okay but do you start drinking at some point vlad be honest with you i really hate the taste of alcohol i might be like a social drinker but i definitely prefer to smoke marijuana any given day drinking ain't even my my cup of tea okay because that next year you end up checking into rehab again for uh i guess uh it was a year after your overdose you end up checking into rehab no i can't fly i'm honestly i can't really i've done a couple extensions in rehab but i just can't remember man okay fair enough fair enough uh i mean do you feel right now that you're completely done with drugs hard drugs hard drugs definitely um and um i i think i've been battle tested through i mean through you know through um through through being's death if there was any time where i'm like but i don't even really i don't even really cross my mind because i just know what it would do to me and then it's like you like when you do drugs you live in shame yeah you feel what i'm saying okay like i'm on my own like where do i get it from who who do i get it then i gotta hide to do it then the people that i'm with every day they don't do it so it's just like i learned how to you know you change the people you angry change your surroundings you can get through anything through god and your family you know to hold you down to give you strength i can do anything right i'm an only child [ __ ] that i've been through i don't even want to start two of my own horn you know what i'm saying you don't did that already in this interview like for real right i mean the best ain't even that ain't even come to me yet real rap i'm still trying to find out you know why i'm here every day is this just tell my story um because i get the same satisfaction when people come up to me about that book about how it changed their lives i get more satisfaction from that than i get from people telling me how good of a basketball player i was so well in in 2018 you and some friends were hanging out hooters oh and uh i guess an argument started between your group and some other guys and some shots rang out shots rang out not not from your group no from the other group uh what this is by the way yeah that happens [Music] that happens no did the did the guy who did the shooting was he ever caught or did i have problems you know i'm not in my hood we ain't checking for that you know did they catch who shot at us well after that um you were talking about joining the the chinese basketball association but you ended up not doing that um you joined the philippine uh mighty sports yeah and um i guess there was a small stint with that and then you joined the big three uh but ultimately you were deactivated from the team why is that again you like you know basketball one of the sports if you're not in shape it's hard to play and i guess from not being in um not being in a basketball shape for so long i took it for granted you know what i'm saying that was only three on three but you know that should have kicked your ass still and i i told myself really have you ever seen me on the basketball court again you know i'm in good shape because i told myself after i had that i played that year for the clippers man i started that yeah i probably was like 300 pounds but like in like three or four months i like got myself really back in shape but even though when you when you're out of shape like that you lose some of your confidence having to play but i told myself i'm never going to play basketball again if i'm nice so that's it so that's it unless you get in perfect shape you know you if you you might see me out there but you know if you see me out there like i'm in really good shape and to be honest with you um those strokes and those heart attacks i think they kind of took where it took away a little bit of my my coordination yeah makes sense and my most effective ability was my size and my ball handling ability and it's just like they don't really i might bounce it and they don't really come up the same so i'll have to really like work and perfect and hone my my craft before i even decide to step out i'll step out there again well you talked about your book you ended up uh putting out your your memoir and the one thing that kind of stuck out in that book was that you claimed that you slept with over 2 000 women that was wrong i never really counted but probably had to bring something up to like i mean i think about that once i only remember the name god bless them i feel you well uh i mean will chamberlain's you know claim that he slept with twenty thousand which is yeah yeah i'd like to play it you know if he was here he would say lamar ain't got [ __ ] on me yeah now he would he would definitely say that cause i'm there definitely a lightweight to him but i think about the places i lived popularity i mean i didn't really count but probably up there and now i'm not ashamed i'm not proud of that i got a daughter 22 years old what the [ __ ] i'm not when in the process of writing a book it just came out well you know you talked about in the book and also you know like when you were in your relationship with uh sabrina that you have sex addiction problems you have porn uh addictions and so forth do you think that do you think that's a real thing or or do all men technically have a sex addiction and a porn addiction at that because i'm looking at myself i'm probably the same boat as you that's nothing i'm proud of though bro i'm in a bed with a beautiful woman and i had i got to have porn on the climax i mean you sick well you spent a lot of time playing with kobe yeah you guys have two rings together yeah you knew him way before you guys even played together and then january 6th 2020 happens when kobe his daughter and other people on a helicopter ends up tragically dying you know and this this happened literally down the street from my house uh so it was a crazy day for me but i don't think it's anything compared to what you went through that day yeah it was it took me some time to even really accept it yeah it took me some time to even really accept it it was some like i would call his phone i would be calling his phone like weeks after it happened just and just just text him he was a special dude to me just real beyond uh basketball this is his thought process and he was extreme you know the leader he led in a different way people talk about the incredible basketball player he was but what about the father man right trying to teach all these young guys that was coming behind them donovan mitchell jason tatum you can all see these dudes coming into their own because they got to um to experience or even put the mamba mentality into what they're going through i mean yeah he was just getting started [ __ ] do one oscar yeah we just did that uh the big deal with the drink what's called body armor um they could have been incredible coach girls coach women's coach pick his basketball brains knowledge is incredible uh it's just his will you know like when i first heard about that plane going down i was like joking to myself that my [ __ ] jumped out that [ __ ] and landed on his feet you know what i'm saying like yeah i just couldn't even see him um but then i know the man i know like if he was like if he was awake and the plane was going down i know he was the one telling everybody just joke just we're gonna be all right you know what i'm saying just trying to be there for everybody i just i don't know it's hard for me to see somebody i love so much kind of go like that too oh yeah it was it was such a sad day i mean especially in l.a yeah the one dude i was with um his brother started throwing up like damn he don't even know being like that he couldn't even keep he couldn't even keep his fool in his stomach yeah i mean the tragedy of that um is i mean it's just i mean you find out that kobe died you're like okay that that's horrible but but kobe got to live his life you know got to live his life to the highest levels and then you find it because then you find out about the daughter and you're like oh my god like that's what it just became just almost unbearable thinking about it but just you know just you know as a fan or as a person okay looking from the outside and it's unbearable what about his wife yeah and they're too you know her sisters you know their their media family kobe's father it's crazy yeah no it's it's unbelievably sad but you know he would want us to keep keep living and keep um trying to be our best selves at any given time that's what the mama mentality is all about i don't think he would want us to stop it well you played with you know the all-time greats what is it about kobe that was just different than everybody else his will his will his ability to block everything out and focus on what's in front of him incredible will to do that i'll give you a prime example of that you remember that when they came out with the um and when he did that all white photo shoot a lot of people were questioning like why the [ __ ] would you do this oh yeah with the the head wrap just all the crazy looks remember that right yeah i remember yeah i'm looking it up now yeah that's what i'm talking about as well okay so are you example that so we were in utah you know how those fans could be ruthless every fan in the stand had a picture of that old white photo shoot just to troll him what so so they control him basically yes okay he still was able to be like all right y'all gonna get on me i'ma still go out here and kick girl ass like no other player will be able to do that no other player would be able to travel i just didn't say hey as well here if you ask any other you can ask the nba great about how many game winners they won they hit probably get like five or six you know seven where race score in the clock game over they won the game kobe bryant hit nine in one season nine game ones and once like it's just and then he was he was trying to be the best you know every practice though too i mean would you say he's the greatest of all time over jordan and lebron i was talking about i was talking to somebody um about this today and i think like in you know in these times of course you're going to always say mike kobe but really like i think this is just my basketball knowledge me knowing the game studying the game i think kareem got them all beat i mean there's a great argument for that um if you think about it from like eighth grade through high school through college they you know they changing their rule from kareem taking the dunk away because he was so dominant kareem played where when you're a freshman you couldn't play with the sophomores juniors and seniors kareem's freshman team beat the varsity team he went you say so if i add all that and then the skyhook no one can take and make a skyhook from where he can take and make it from so that's a shot that no one can duplicate unlike the fadeaway or like the lebrons dunk you probably can get an athletic guy that can duplicate that dunk or get a good fade away shooters i can duplicate jordan i'm the skyhook i don't know nobody could so from eighth grade high school college in nba i would say karima duchaball is the best player in the nba there you go and i've heard that before from multiple people i mean the object of the game is the whoever put the ball in the hole the most right korean and then tabula kareem has done that so maybe when lebron tops kareem's then we can have that argument but i think it's cookery and but then you know mike and colby they was just so dominant in their own style of play and i don't think people really want to give it to a big man i think we're more fantasized by the average guy doing it you know doing it you know what i'm saying even though six six is tall but it ain't seven one yeah yeah i mean kareem is seven two i think yeah yeah and he's got six rings so he's definitely in that conversation yeah are you at six yeah yep how could you not yep well and this brings us to what's coming up for you which honestly when i heard about it it made absolutely no sense uh you have a celebrity boxing match on june 12th with aaron yeah you probably that's probably the part that didn't make sense to you right right it didn't make sense to me either okay and i've i've interviewed aaron before okay so i've been around him we've had deep conversations about the fight not about the fight before before so i mean i know his background i know his history uh you know his battle with drugs and everything um let's just look at the stats for one second okay you are six ten yeah i was told to say six eight for this fight but i'm six ten you're six ten he is six four okay he's six one mm-hmm how much do you weigh one or two 40. 240. he weighs 160. at one point when he was really like kind of battling with drugs he weighed 115 pounds yo this wasn't my doing this is this is celebrities boxing made this fight up man all i'm doing is i'm being the fighter i'm taking the payday vlad that's it i'm there to collect my check knock this boy out real quick have fun it's in atlantic city take my little purse go party go gamble a little bit hey i can't go wrong now him on the other hand they gonna be having to wake him up and it might not work out too good for him okay because this is a three round exhibition yeah right how many minutes per round minute 30. oh that's it okay quick rounds quick fight boom boom boom boom boom quick business and then we go party we'll be cool we'll be hanging it kicking on the beach okay i'm gonna predict that this is gonna end very badly uh in fact i predict that this will be jake paul versus nate robinson in reverse nah but i'm not gonna even make it do it i'm not gonna even do them like that i'm not go i'm promising i'm not gonna do them like that i'm not gonna go in there and look bad you know what i'm saying um i don't know this might try to spring me for another boxing match okay i mean when you saw the jake paul nate robinson fight what'd you think i was tight i mean do you know nate i'm yeah we we you know you know in the nba even if you don't know noah dude you know right you played against a match up against museum right because when he got knocked out the way he did basketball players worldwide took to twitter and just said please i was tight i was like i was like yo i think i manifested this whole boxing thing up because i swear to you i say yo i'm gonna get a fight with this dude jake paul i'll be honest okay that was my real that's what i said to myself then the celebrity boxing thing came up so you know maybe if you know after this ain't recorded thing go if mr paul want to give me a shot i don't know yeah yeah i mean at least paul got a little more weight on him though yeah you're a little bigger too yeah that's what i'm saying uh i mean skinny dude all right well listen um like i said i'm predicting a train wreck right now but listen both of you guys are a grown men you know i mean i don't i don't really hit that hard i'm you know i'm i'm really like um by nature i'm skinny i'm on the slim side by nature so my hands are they're light but they're not really i'm not heavy-handed okay i mean but just the reach i mean what do you have like an extra foot of reach yeah but that's why i say like even like really because of the reach i could spare them and i don't have to really it don't have to they don't have to get ugly i could just pop tap them tap tap i can jam that they don't they don't really have to get ugly okay i mean do you predict a knockout or no i i'm not gonna i'm not gonna even make it ugly i'll play with them for three rounds and then take the win then go party when i'm on the beach i'm all about friends man making friends he's a good dude aaron carter i want to beat him up let me get out of beating him up i'll make more money cause i beat him up but i'm gonna knock him let me knock him out i'll knock him out if you want me to knock him off that i don't knock him out i'm not i'm not cause i bet you damon want me to knock him out my man from celebrity boxing i know he probably want me to knock him oh yeah no i'm sure damon doesn't want you enough for reigns i'm not i'm not going well i'm just a little worried like honestly like i think if you knock him out nobody was that's good that you were but no people wasn't worried for nate well because nate's coming into it i mean everyone okay when the nate when the when the nate uh you know jake paul thing came together uh i'm thinking nate's got it because nate is an athlete he's he's more muscular you know he seems like he's in overall better shape he just looked like in that particular case nate did not take the boxing part seriously he didn't train he didn't get in the ring and spar that you know and i interviewed zab judah you know i mean you know a championship boxer who told me the exact same thing he's like it's obvious that nate that that uh the nate never got into the ring now yeah yeah whatever but but but this right here i mean but at least nate and jake paul are roughly the same size no jake paul is much bigger than him jake paul is like six four nate robinson is like five eight wasn't that much it was a lot bigger than them nate robinson is nate robinson is big like this right that's what i'm saying jake paul is six one by the way yeah but your chin your chin don't lift weights though that's the whole thing your chin don't lift weights so don't get how big you are right here your chin don't lift weights right uh and nate weighed 180 pounds you know jake might be a little bit heavier it might be about 200 but you guys have a you and aaron have a massive weight here i don't know about it yeah yeah a massive reach difference i'll make it quick it's different there's other um fights on that card tonight so i'll make it quick okay but i won't hurt him but i'll make it quick okay i guess we'll see what happens on uh on june 12th do you want to come out june 12th uh yeah i'm gonna try to absolutely absolutely man i love boxing yeah nate if if aaron carter is your guy you said that's your guy so you might want to be there for him okay no i mean i've interviewed him i'm not going to say it's my guy you know but i've interviewed him we had a dope interview i have a lot of respect for him so that's when i found out about this i was like whoa uh and i guess uh there was a video of him sparring i guess like hitting the bag naked who aaron paul i i mean aaron and carter hidden in bag naked yeah you see him boxing but he's actually butt naked it's one of those things you wish you never saw but you saw it so it's somehow locked in your memory that's an insult to me yeah yeah i mean that's an insult to me because in the hood we got this thing you know like a couple of older dudes they was like yeah yeah i'm gonna make love to you i'm gonna make love to you [ __ ] you know what i'm saying so it's kind of like what he boxing he training for me with his underwear with just his uh underwear off underwear off oh man now you i might have took it personal now yeah yeah just because he didn't have on the underwear while he's training for me yeah it's pretty it's a pretty crazy video yeah you could you could google it after you uh finish aaron carter training naked for lamar yeah go go on twitter actually hold on you want you want to see it real quick yeah let me see that wait wait wait wait dick oh wait there you go hold on he got his dick out yeah oh no oh no i'm gonna be his ass for that i'm gonna be his ass for that yeah i'm gonna be his ass for that he got his whole little pink package them i'm gonna be his ass for that and i'm gonna be his ass for that okay uh lamar oda man i appreciate you sharing your story quite a quite a journey my pleasure any time bro you know and uh good luck on this boxing match i don't need it but you did thank you you know and thank you so much man i wish you all the best man thank you brother on not only your victories but also owning your defeats and it sounds like you're moving forward and things are going well for you yeah well never defeated those those are just lessons bro you know what i'm saying so i learned from him and i'm here what the [ __ ] that's what it is man until next time thanks

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Published: Sat May 01 2021