Houston Rockets forward Luis Scola is a very good player, a veteran with many skills and a high basketball IQ. No one would ever confuse him for being particularly athletic, though, and he doesn't dunk with the regularity you'd expect 6-9 person who gets paid to play in the NBA. That's to say it doesn't ever happen: as the stats show, he hasn't tried to dunk this season . That changed on Sunday night. Late in the second quarter, with the Rockets already blowing out the Kings in Sacramento, Scola took the ball from Courtney Lee on a four-on-one fast break to find himself face-to-face with center DeMarcus Cousins at the rim. Instead of dumping it off for an easy bucket, Scola decided to have a little fun and took it right at the 6-11 big man. It was perhaps a little arrogant, because Cousins committed the no-brainer foul and sent Scola to the floor. Scola laughed it off after, likely realizing that he might have flown a little too close to the sun. His teammates got a kick out of it , though, as noted by Jonathan Feigen for The Houston Chronicle:
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