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With the playoffs approaching, the Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Atlanta Hawks with ease on Monday night to resume their winning ways. Prior to Monday night, Los Angeles had dropped two straight games and was in dire need of winning again in order to stave off the Houston Rockets’ onslaught.

It was undoubtedly one of the Lake Show’s best team outings ever. It was a fantastic game. For the first time this season, the Lakers were playing with a true synchronicity on the court, something that had been lacking for the majority of the season. The Lakers have the potential to be very competitive in the NBA Playoffs if this current roster can stay together.

However, Monday night’s events for the Lakers weren’t entirely flawless. Austin Reaves’ start to the game could not have been worse when Jalen Johnson viciously dunked on him less than 20 seconds in.

That ended up being the peak of the Hawks’ night as the Lakers would lead the game throughout. Getting dunked on may have frazzled Reaves a bit, though, as he did not turn in his usual great scoring night for the purple and gold.

And of course, there was no way that Reaves was going to get out of talking about getting dunked on. Reaves spoke to the media after the game and took the viral moment on the chin with a laugh and a smile on his face.

It is good to see Reaves being such a good sport about it but that is probably a lot easier to do when your team ends up dominating the game from there on out. If the Lakers would have lost this game to the Hawks then Reaves probably would have had a different tone when speaking to the media.

Thankfully for Reaves, Johnson’s poster dunk somehow wasn’t the best dunk of the night across the league. There are 364 days of the year where Johnson’s dunk would have been the play of the night and would have been the viral moment that circled social media.

Instead, earlier in the night Anthony Edwards threw down an even more impressive dunk on John Collins of the Utah Jazz. As bad as Johnson’s poster on Reaves was, Edwards postering Collins was 10 times worse.

Thanks to Edwards and thanks to the Lakers’ win, Reaves is able to laugh this one off while the league quickly forgets about it.