When LeBron James came barreling down the court in transition in L.A.’s Thursday evening game against Houston, leapt into the air and threw down a vicious reverse windmill with two hands, we noticed how ridiculous it was even for him.
Left there, it would have gone into the archives as yet another LeBron moment to join hundreds of others in his career, with a particularly iconic photo of the 17-year-veteran gliding through the air as lasting evidence.
But later that night, Lakers video producer Josh Williams was looking at comments on a Reddit thread of the dunk, when someone mentioned the dunk was “like the one Kobe did.