Shaquille O’Neal reveals dreams surrounding Kobe Bryant 5 years after death

Sometimes your dreams can they bring back fond memories, and for Shaquille O’Neal, a few of his include Kobe Bryant.

O’Neal told People it was too late Los Angeles Lakers the star had recently appeared in his dreams and recalled some of the most important moments of their careers.

“If I lay there for the first five minutes, I don’t fall asleep, then I just start dreaming and last night I dreamed about me and Kobe and all the championships we won,” he told the magazine.

O’Neal adds, “I just replayed and recreated us riding in the parade and just having a good time. Before I knew it, it was 9 in the morning.”

Bryant and O’Neal were teammates for eight seasons with the Lakers, from 1996 to 2004. The duo won three consecutive NBA championships together from 2000 to 2002.

Shaquille O’Neal keeps up with Kobe Bryant’s family

The brotherhood that O’Neal and Bryant had still runs deep as the four-time NBA champion continues to care for the late NBA legend’s family. Bryant died in 2020 along with his daughter Gianna “Gigi” Bryant and seven others in a helicopter crash. Since then, O’Neill has been diligent keeping in touch with Bryant’s mom and sisters.

“Their mom has been through a lot in a few years, and it takes a toll and sometimes you just need someone to call to check on you,” Shaq told People last month. “I kind of know how it feels to have her son pass away, but I don’t know what it’s like to lose a son and a husband, so I’m sure she’s got a lot of pain that she’s dealing with,” he says, referring to the death of Kobe’s father, Joe Di204.

After Bryant’s tragic death, O’Neill was candid about their “complicated” relationship, but they were still successful together.

“As many of you know, Kobe and I have had a very complex relationship over the years,” O’Neal said in his speech honoring Bryant, “but not unlike another leading duo, John Lennon and Paul McCartney, whose creative rivalry led to some of the greatest music of all time.”

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At the time, he was also thinking about how his future looked so different without Bryant and that he would no longer make the memories with him that he always thought he would have.

“(I thought), ‘We’re both going to get old. We’re both going to be at the 50th anniversary of the Lakers,'” he told PEOPLE two years later the death of an NBA star.