At an emotional celebration of Lacey Holsworth's life, about 2,500 people saw a great grin pushing up Lacey's cute cheeks countless times during a moving video that ended the memorial ceremony for her at Michigan State on Thursday night.

The 8-year-old girl, whose battle with nerve-cell cancer inspired the Spartans' basketball program and strangers who followed her story, died April 8 in the arms of her mother and father at their home in nearby St. Johns. Read more here from the Associated Press. At one moving point of the memorial, Adreian Payne made a silent dunk in remembrance of his little friend.

This Instagram user captured a short video of the dunk.

Photo: Adreian Payne makes a silent dunk at the celebration of Lacey Holsworth's life Thursday http://t.co/d05XYHFGm0 pic.twitter.com/SexneR1rDd — GreenandWhite.com (@LSJGreenWhite) April 18, 2014

Look back on Holsworth's legacy with the Spartans with our previous stories and videos. Here are some of the many tweets from last night on Twitter:

Celebration of Lacey is stirring, uplifting, heart-wrenching in front of 2,500 at Breslin Center. http://t.co/ku6yJ3pOD3 — Joe Rexrode (@joerexrode) April 18, 2014

Life celebration ceremony held for 8-year-old Lacey Holsworth at MSU's Breslin Center http://t.co/zgGznn8jmq pic.twitter.com/lRH6B5bgar — MLive (@MLive) April 18, 2014

Lacey Holsworth remembered for grace, toughness at MSU memorial http://t.co/z7rjUuz3Fn — Matt Charboneau (@mattcharboneau) April 18, 2014