LeBron James in awe of unplanned Kobe Bryant tribute dunk

LeBron James’ duꦜnk tribute to Kobe Bryant last week was the talk of 🦹the Lakers locker room days later.

James’ double-clutch reverse dunk on a breakaway Thursday night against the Rockets at Staples Center looked identical to one Bryant – who was among nin🍬e killed in a helicopter crasꦜh on Jan. 26 – pulled off against the Kings in 2001.

A member of the Lakers’ video team put the slams side by side on the team’s Twitter accoun𒀰t, leading it to go viral.

“I didn’t really predetermine that either until I jumped,” Saturday after the beat the Warriors. “I just jumped and kind of figured it out, and then … it’s crazy how it’s the same exact dunk, the same exact hoop that Kobe did [it on] — what, 19 years ago or something like that? That was nice.”

He jokingly told his teams like in the movie “T🉐he 6th Man”, Bryant took control of him during the sequence, which teammate JaVal🌞e McGee called “pretty dope.”

“Kobe came down, put himself in my body and 🉐gave me that dunk on tꦐhat break,” James said.

The tribute went a step further as James said he watched the video with his son, Bronny, before Sierra Canyon High School’s loss to Long Island Lutheran on Sat𒀰urday.

in pregame warm-ups.

“Kobe is in all of us right now,” James said.

NBA p🎀hotographer Andrew D. Bernstein was able to capture James in flight to the hoops on ﷽the jam.

“When I saw it for the first time, I was like, ‘Holy s—, that is an unbelievable photo,'” James said. “And then when I found out how it was taken.”