Josh Smith and Dwight Howard are enjoying themselves.  (USATSI)
Josh Smith and Dwight Howard are enjoying themselves. (USATSI)

Josh Smith and Dwight Howard refuse to stop alley-ooping. The Houston Rockets big men -- and, yes, former AAU teammates, as has been pointed over and over and over -- have connected on what feels like hundreds of highlight plays throughout their first-round series against the Dallas Mavericks. In Tuesday's Game 5, they might have had their finest one yet:

You have to love that pass from Smith. It was timed and placed perfectly, and Howard easily took care of the rest.

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