Watch Kobe Bryant Jump Over An Aston Martin

Gulp. (Video courtesy of YouTube and the Jerry Buss Is Livid Foundation)

So this video has been making it's way around the interwebs lately, thanks in no small part to a mention in Bill "The Sports Guy" Simmons' debate on the 2008 NBA MVP.

The good? It's quite authentic, especially with Lakers' center/professional cheerleader Rony Turiaf making a cameo. Kobe also seems genuinely pleased with himself both before, during and after the leap. Either he's drastically improved his acting ability or, by some weird stroke of luck, he jumped over an Aston Martin without casuing serious injury to himself. Or having his legal team freak out worse than they did during the whole, ahem, Colorado incident.

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