In the summer of 2018, a silent time bomb detonated in the SLAM kingdom. Maya Moore claimed a historic spot on a three-part cover series that completed the issue 217 set. Significantly, she was only the second female to do so. The first was when we asked the NBA if they were ready for Chamique Holdsclaw back in ’98. (They weren’t–neither were our readers, apparently). But where our efforts to challenge the status quo with Chamique had kicked a crack in the glass ceiling–Maya smashed the whole thing clean off.