A kind reader of the VC sent me the link to the following video that pairs the original images of Michael Jordan with the amazing recreation for the recent Nike commercial that gave me and many others chills every time I watched it. Four comments:
(1) The recreation was even more impressive than I thought. Notice how the reactions of other players to the Jordan move are also recreated. This must have been very difficult.
(2) There was a debate in comments on the original post over whether the recreation showed the “push off” by Jordan that freed him up for his “final shot.” Whether or not the contact constituted an illegal push off and whether or not the recreation showed the contact at all, Jordan’s contact is much more visible and obvious in the original than in the recreation and this cannot have been an accident. (see point (1))
(3) I think the recreation is somehow more poignant than the original of the very same action.
(4) I still get chills from this. Either version.