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The best moment from the Los Angeles Lakers' 107-87 loss to the Houston Rockets was Kobe Bryant turning back the clock by posterizing Father Time Clint Capela. No one was more shocked than Kobe himself:
Kobe Bryant's full quote on dunking tonight... "Then I jumped, and I was like ‘oh, I'm still going up.'" pic.twitter.com/hGNIOJVuW2
— Shahan Ahmed (@shahanLA) December 18, 2015
Capela himself tweeted what Bryant told him after making him the latest victim in a career that has included it's share of posters:
@kobebryant told me that he surprised himself with that one, Me too #StillGotIt Great team win #RedNation #Pursuit
— Clint Capela (@CapelaClint) December 18, 2015
Capela and Bryant weren't the only one surprised by the 37-year old's vicious vertical display:
Kobe said Rockets were shocked by his dunk: "They said, ‘You've got two more years [in you] at least.'" Kobe's response: "Nah, I'm good."
— Baxter Holmes (@BaxterHolmes) December 18, 2015
Even Byron Scott was surprised by Kobe dunk. "It was kind of like, 'Whoa, where did that come from?'"
— Bill Oram (@billoram) December 18, 2015
Julius Randle admitted he was surprised Kobe threw a dunk down. Randle said Kobe hasn't dunked at all in practice
— Mark Medina (@MarkG_Medina) December 18, 2015
Okay so that last one is from the movie Dodgeball, but you get the point. Although Pepper Brooks would have made a more entertaining analyst for the Lakers' most recent contest than Reggie Miller.
For one more reaction, we go to Kobe's new best buddy Dwight Howard, who (shockingly) related the dunk back to himself:
I asked Dwight Howard about Kobe's dunk on Clint Capela and his answer is very Dwight. pic.twitter.com/I9t6NYuY04
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) December 18, 2015
Well Dwight, since you asked so nicely: