SACRAMENTO -- There was a framed photo resting on the floor next to LeBron James' locker when he arrived on Sunday. The anniversary gift from the Los Angeles Lakers showed James, as an 18-year-old rookie, skying in for a right-handed hammer dunk during his NBA debut 20 years ago against the Sacramento Kings.
James managed to turn back the clock two decades later for a nearly identical breakaway slam late in the Lakers' 132-127 overtime loss to the Kings.
"It's pretty special I'm still doing it and I'm playing the game that I love," James said.