He did point out, though, that Odenigbo handled lodging responsibilities for half the group — and subsequently had the privileges jokingly revoked.
“Ifeadi’s like, ‘Guys, I found this great place, super cheap for everybody, huge, plenty of space. It has this huge projector screen to watch movies and stuff.’ That sounds pretty cool,” Wilson recalled. “So we found our way through the train station … to get there. It was like walking through Times Square. We had no idea where we were, but we figured it out.
“Got to the place and it was like a studio apartment shack. It was very compact,” he quipped. “There were four of us — one, two, three, four — laying up in a studio apartment. We were on top of each other. We had to, like, crouch down in the shower. It was funny. But it was cool. It brought us much closer, for sure.”
Wilson, Hunter and Odenigbo met up for another trip in March 2023, when they made the marathon trip across the globe to Australia. The group toured Sydney, Melbourne and the Gold Coast, collecting more memories and anecdotes along the way.
“The thing about Eric is that he’s just a free spirit, man; he’s always positive,” Hunter said. “If there ever is a negative situation, he always finds a positive in it. I don’t think I’ve ever seen Eric mad, angry, anything. In any situation, whether during a game or traveling together, he’s always finding the positive.”