When Deandre Ayton received a lob pass from LeBron James during the Los Angeles Lakers game on Tuesday, he had previous experience to lean on -- from when he was 16 years old.

James, making his season debut after missing 14 games due to sciatica , was posting up Utah Jazz forward Cody Williams when he spun to his left toward the basket and tossed an alley-oop to Ayton. The 7-foot center dunked it for his sixth point of the game and James' third assist.

After the game, the 27-year-old revealed that he told James, 40, a "fun fact" about the play.

"I said, 'that's my second alley-oop from you. The first one was when I was in eighth grade at your camp,'" he said, laughing. "So, yeah it was kind of crazy, you know. Seeing all of that, so it was fun."

James laughed and asked Ayto

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