It’s the iconic image etched in our brains, the frozen-in-time moment we remember alongside the likes of Muhammad Ali loading up his right hand as George Foreman stumbled around in a boxing ring in Zaire over 40 years ago.
Michael Jordan’s extended right hand, giving his last jump shot as a Chicago Bull the extra push it needed with 5.2 seconds left in Salt Lake City in 1998 to clinch his sixth NBA title. It felt historic in the moment, captured perfectly by NBC’s Bob Costas who made note of how symbolic it felt, how poetic it looked.