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D'Angelo Russell Makes Mistake of Asking Kobe Bryant to Pay Fine He Earned Celebrating Bryant's First Dunk of 2015

The biggest sign yet Kobe Bryant should already be retired is it's headline news when he dunks.

But here we are cheering an unrepentant sociopath as he takes a final lap of NBA arenas as if the 37-year-old's decrepit game wouldn't revile his 18-year-old former self.

For one play on Thursday night, however, Bryant turned back the clock to 2013 against the Houston Rockets:

Routine by NBA standards, but still not shabby for a 37-year-old dad with bad knees that's returning from an Achillies rupture. It was most noteworthy because it was Mamba's first dunk of the 2015 season, a feat which judging their reaction the Lakers hadn't even seen in practice:

Full Lakers bench reaction to Kobe's slam pic.