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After a scary fall, Bruins’ TJ Leaf regains the spring in his step

Other than the thin brace cocooning his left ankle on Friday evening, TJ Leaf showed only one, tiny sign of the sprained ankle that had nearly dealt a serious blow to UCLA’s Final Four aspirations at the start of March.

Leaf began Friday’s Pac-12 tournament semifinal game against Arizona with a dunk on the first possession. As he ran back on defense, he paused near the foul line and gave his ankle a little wiggle, as if probing its stability.

Then he planted hard, set up on defense and grabbed a rebound.