This video has since been taken off of YouTube. Probably because it was so AWESOME.

So, I’m usually not one for YouTube videos that clock out at more than a minute or two — ah, what’s in the other seven tabs I have open in my Firefox! — but this little number had me riveted for its entirety.

You see, this is a 4:48 compilation of Michael Jordan in and around the rim, but never dunking the ball. It’s those swirling, gliding, you-think-you-have-him-locked-up perouettes where he just tosses the ball up with his back to the basket and it slides in for two.

And it made me realize something: Jordan’s most awe-inspiring moves happened when he didn’t dunk the ball. That’s quite a feat, my friends.