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Here's 5 minutes of 39-year-old Jason Williams cooking in Orlando summer pro-am

It's become one of the great latter-day traditions of the basketball summer: the highlight-reel reminder that, even as the light from the birthday candles gets brighter and brighter, Jason Williams remains a wizard with the ball. From revisiting his legendary "elbow pass" on a feed to Scottie Pippen, to bringing his trademark brand of improvisational ball-handling to East Asia, to schooling dudes in Orlando-area runs, our annual injections of "White Chocolate" cut through the summertime doldrums like a cool breeze, bringing a breath of fresh air to one of the more stultifying segments of the hoops lover's calendar.

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Here, in the spirit of helping in some small way increase the measure of joy we get to experience in the middle of an August weekday, is five minutes of Jason Williams — now 39 years young — doing super-cool stuff at the 2015 Orlando Pro-Am Basketball League:

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The crossovers, the stepbacks, the no-look feeds, the escape dribbles, the in-and-out moves, the length-of-the-court touchdown passes, the bounce-pass alley-oops ... it's all just so cool. Granted, it's not exactly like he's facing elite NBA defenses, but that shouldn't have to matter when it comes to having fun, which Williams clearly is, even as he approaches Apatow territory.

Few players have ever been as perfectly crafted for this highlight-centric era as "White Chocolate," which is why it's so cool that, even 4 1/2 years after he last took the court in the NBA as a member of the Memphis Grizzlies, we still get to watch him shine every now and again. Something to look forward to each and every summer until he hangs 'em up ... which, by the looks of things, doesn't seem likely to be anytime soon.

Hat-tip to Home Team Hoops.

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