Editor’s note: The following was first published on May 28, 2017.
"I think that was one of the highlights of Utah’s history."
That statement from Jazz owner Gail Miller might sound dramatic, but if you ask local sports fans, the buzzer-beating, game-winning jumper John Stockton made at The Summit in Houston on May 29, 1997, certainly ranks up there among highlights in Utah's history with Brigham Young declaring “This is the right place,” the world agreeing with that sentiment after the 2002 Winter Olympics and Arctic Circle inventing fry sauce.
The Shot, as it's simply called, remains revered in the Beehive State even more than two decades later.