Fox then mentioned that he got called by King Rice, his best friend and a former teammate at the University of North Carolina. As he explained, Rice, the head coach at Monmouth University, walked off the floor following the team’s game against Iona, at which point someone told him that Fox may have been involved in the helicopter crash. “He started calling,” Fox recalls. “So I’m seeing King’s number repeatedly going and going and going, and I think he’s worried about me, so I said, ‘I’m gonna talk to my best friend.’ I answered and I said, ‘Hey, man, this is crazy about Kobe,’ and he just was bawling. And I started crying, and he was like, ‘You’re alive.’”