Flashback Friday: Vinsanity takes center stage at 2000 Olympics
It was the dunk heard, seen, smelled, and felt around the world.
Friday marked the 15-year anniversary of what could've been a routine play, but instead turned into one of the most memorable aerial attacks in Olympic - and basketball - history.
With Team USA leading France 69-54 in the opening minutes of the second half during the gold-medal game at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, Vince Carter stole a regrettably fancy pass by a French opponent as the then-Toronto Raptors guard streaked toward the basket.
Carter's victim - 7-foot-2 Frederic Weis - stood under the rim, possibly unsure of whether to take the charge or get out of the way entirely, but did neither as the freshly-crowned NBA dunk champion soared over him for a sublime rim-rattler.
Interestingly, the now-Memphis Grizzlies wing recently admitted he was initially unaware of what transpired on the hardwood in Australia that day.
The dunk was another notch in Carter's belt, as the 1999 Rookie of the Year had been taking the NBA by storm since entering the league two summers previously.
The U.S. came away with the gold, and Carter's career continued to rise: eight All-Star appearances, a pair of All-NBA team selections, and an unofficial coronation as the best in-game dunker basketball fans have ever seen.
Meanwhile, Weis would go on to experience a series of unfortunate obstacles in his own life.
September 25 will forever be known as the day the world witnessed "The Dunk of Death."