Kobe Bryant showed just how healthy his ankle was with this monstrous dunk in the third quarter of the Lakers' 106-90 victory in Game 5 against the Hornets on Tuesday. But that wasn't all he did. He had an arguably equally impressive dunk in the first half, this one of the right-handed variety.
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That one was right in the face of Emeka Okafor, who went by the name "rejecta" in college. He didn't do a whole lot of rejecting there, did he?
↵For all the talk about Kobe's ankle, it didn't look like it impeded him very much on those two plays. And those are the types of plays that can inspire a team and bring about some really good play. We saw how that worked on Tuesday when the Lakers were able to run away from the Hornets.