On Thursday, for a brief moment, Kobe Bryant defied Father Time, soared into the sky and threw it down on the Rockets' Clint Capela. At 37, Bryant isn't capable of consistently accomplishing such feats, so as expected, the Staples Center crowd went insane. And the Los Angeles Lakers' bench did as well.
But it was D'Angelo Russell who was given a technical foul. "I like took off and ran across the baseline, tried to get back before the ref saw me and, uh, I caught Denzel's attention and the ref caught me and I don't know what we did," Russell told ESPN. That's when the Lakers rookie point guard tried to do something we would never suggest.
Of course, the Black Mamba hit him one of these reactions.
"Meh, you ran the baseline on your own free will," Kobe responded. D'Angelo, you're a rookie asking Bryant to pay your fine. That never would've worked in your favor in a million years.
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[via ESPN]
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