Found January 11, 2012 on BlackSportsOnline:
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Kobe Bryant jumped in the Hot Tub Time Machine to the Smush Parker years, with a vintage Darth Kobe performance.

He still isn’t the Kobe of old, but the rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated.

Currently he is second in the league in scoring.

Pretty dunk right here, looks like those German doctors knew what they were doing.


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