High fit

Storage is about what you hold onto. Glenn Burke, stripped of his career, his health, and his public recognition, chose to hold onto one specific thing: the memory of that feeling on October 5th, 1977. He didn't fill his storage with bitterness about being traded, mocked, or forgotten. He kept the origin of the high five — the sensation of it — as something he carried with him all the way to the end. That selective storage is what let him speak about it with pride instead of grief.