When Vince Carter put on the best dunk contest performance ever back in 2000, one of the jaw dropping dunks was when he put his elbow through the hoop and just hung there. Fans and players stared in shock, not really sure what to think before realizing how high he had to be in the first place to do that. Nobody had ever seen it before but it turns out a young Kobe Bryant did the same thing a few years earlier while doing a tour of the Philippines in 1998. The younger, afro version of the Black Mamba made it look pretty easy himself.