CHICAGO — If an entrant into the NBA’s 2020 slam dunk contest grabbed a buddy and executed what LeBron James and Kyle Kuzma pulled off here Tuesday night, he’d win.



The Bulls’ Otto Porter Jr. fumbled the ball into Kuzma’s hands. James was already headed in the other direction when Kuzma lofted the perfect outlet, with one caveat. It was an arching bounce pass, one that when it hit the court at the other end, it’d bounce high.



LeBron waited for the pass to do just that, in mid-sprint, mind you, before jumping, catching it, and slamming it from behind his head with 9:35 left in the third quarter.



Almost anything is possible with LeBron on your side, except for, apparently, making the playoffs this season. But the timing of that Kuzma-to-LeBron alley-oop in the Lakers’ 123-107 win over the Bulls takes a certain amount of chemistry to pull off.



It was a good sign that Kuzma and LeBron have it, and it’s...