LeBron James, Kevin Love Exchange Pleasantries After James Dunked All Over Him

Nothing quite like dunking on an old friend.

On Monday night, the Los Angeles Lakers were on their way to beating James’ former team, when Austin Reaves found a sprinting James heading to the hoop in the second quarter.

Love was all alone in the paint, and James slammed it home all over his friend, who put his arms out like he had been knocked out.

The dunk itself was awesome.

But what followed was a show of some respect between the two friends.

See the tweets below:

Now the dunk:

Check out this angle!

Love had a great reaction.

LeBron felt pretty bad about it:

Love and James had the best Twitter exchange:

Nice fellas.


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