Fledglings (2014 - 2015) | Page 20

Juliana March S. Mendoza With his towering height and his wooed everyone with his incredible two-time Philippine Basketball and former actress Jackie Forster, Kobe basketball player in the NBA. Like his excellently. good looks, teen heartthrob Kobe Paras has basketball skills. Son of an actor athlete and Association Most Valuable Player Benjie Paras was named after Kobe Bryant, a well-known father and his namesake, he plays basketball The 17 year old basketball player is known ball and is absolutely amazing at dunking. dunks, one of which included dunking for often scoring three points when shooting the He was able to do 5 definitely astounding over the NBA superstar LeBron James. 5 Absolutely Astounding Dunks by Kobe Paras 5. Brotherly dunks Andre, Kobe’s brother, is not at all a short guy, around 6-foot-5. But in an Instagram video posted by Andre, Kobe shows how effortlessly he can jump over his brother’s head while dunking a ball. He ran from the back of the court, dribbled the ball, and headed over to Andre – who was standing in front of the ring with his arms folded, easily leaped over the big guy’s head and dunked the ball right into the ring. 4. Dunking it LeBron style In a slam-dunk competition just last year, Kobe once again made everyone stare in awe at his creativeness at dunking. He performed a selfassisted dunk inspired by LeBron. He dribbled the ball, passed it between his legs and threw it above the ring. It bounced off the board that holds the ring and just in time, Paras caught it and dunked the ball. He held on to the ring and swung back and forth before jumping back to the ground. 3. Stunning slow motion Another stunning video was posted by Kobe just before going back to Manila last August. But this time, everything was captured in slow motion. He ran from the opposite side of the court. This was where things started going in slow motion. He jumped, clear H\