Empty the Bench

It’s not something you’re going to work on in basketball camp, but Kobe actually manages to make an alley oop off the backboard to himself look like a fundamentally sound, high-percentage play. There aren’t too many people on the planet who can do this: picking up his dribble, recognizing the open space, splitting the double in mid-air, tossing it off the glass to a place where only he could get it and and getting back up after it for the dunk. Pretty sick.

Oh, and he also had 34 points, 6 boards and 7 dimes on 50% FGs. Meh.

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