Siko, Dong Ai, North Carolina and Nam Mai have memories of the four quarterbacks, and finally come to Vince Carter. After the end of the University of North Carolina in 1998, Vince Carter, a junior, was admitted to this year's NBA draft, and after the Golden State Warriors selected Carter with the fifth pick in the first round, a high-pick rookie swap transaction occurred. Carter swapped with fourth-pick college teammate Jamison to make the first stop of his career --- the Toronto Raptors.
Although the Snow Country of the North was in a very cold place, it gave the newcomer Carter a warm hug, and the young Vince Carter averaged 18.3 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3 assists in 35.2 minutes per game in his rookie season, and won the best rookie of the season without suspense, which opened the curtain for the future legendary career.
In the second season, Carter averaged 25.7 points per game to be selected to the third team of the league's best team, and was selected as the king of the tickets, and also participated in the dunk contest, Carter, who did not design too many dunks in advance, defeated Maddy, Francis and Starkhouse with five improvised dunks, and Carter, who combined power and beauty perfectly, successfully turned the dunk into a work of art, saving the demigod of the All-Star Dunk Contest. Maddy, who competed in the same game, said: "The NBA only has two kinds of dunks, one called Wenscat and one called the other. ”
After entering the 21st century, Carter won the All-Star Ticket King for four seasons, and in the 2003 Atlanta All-Star Game, Vince Carter, who gave up the starter to Jordan, was the well-deserved popular king of the NBA League, but Carter's personal gorgeous offense did not let the Raptors go any further, and Carter led the Raptors to play seven games with the 76ers led by Iverson in the Eastern Conference Semifinals, which seems to be the furthest journey that Carter and the Raptors have traveled. In the third game, Carter scored a playoff record of nine three-pointers and scored 50 points, and in the final seven-point game, Carter missed a kill in the bottom corner and could only watch Iverson celebrate.
Before the Seventh War, Carter insisted on attending the graduation ceremony of the North Carolina degree certificate despite the opposition of the Raptors management, and all this was amplified after missing the kill, and the media criticized Carter's move as a selfish performance of the leader who ignored the team. In an interview years later, Vince Carter recalled, "If time could be repeated, I would go to the graduation ceremony because it was a more important experience than basketball." At the beginning of the 2004 season, Carter, who was at odds with the team's management about the future direction of development, publicly stated that he wanted to leave Toronto, and then the team announced a deal with the New Jersey Nets, and Vince Carter went to New York to leave the place where the dream began.
In the 2004-2005 season, Carter, who left the Raptors, came to life at the New Jersey Nets, averaging 27.5 points per game that year, setting a single-season scoring record for the Nets, Vince Carter and Jason Kidd, Richard Jefferson composed of a troika, led the league's first whirlwind of fast-attack counterattacks, in the Nets' five seasons, Carter averaged 23.6 points, 5.8 rebounds, 4.7 assists per game, was the Nets' top scorer. Back-to-back singles, mid- and long-range jump shots, bloodthirsty kills, and aside from dunks, Carter has become more versatile.
On November 22, 2008, the Nets challenged the Raptors on the road, and Carter staged an incredible double-break against his old club, and with 0.5 seconds left in regular time, Carter hit an ultra-long-range back-up three-pointer with two steps away from the three-point line. And in the last 2.1 seconds left in overtime, Carter picked up Simmons' sideline serve, the air relay back buckle kill, the booing of raptor fans in the whole field, Carter after landing on the ground with a calm and calm face, with his best way to kill the old club, there is no cooler response than this.
In the 2009 offseason, Carter came to Orlando, and the Orlando trip was a turning point in Carter's career, and successive injuries began to find him. After the injury, Carter's offensive area extended significantly outwards, and his playing style gradually became more and more healthy, and although the Magic's game was a starter in a year and a half, the playing time was only 30 minutes, which was also the first season since the rookie season, Carter averaged less than 20 points, Carter played in 97 games for the Orlando Magic, averaging 16.3 points, 3.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game.
Although the star play changed, but Carter still can not help the team to get more victories, and then was traded to the Phoenix Suns, wearing the number 25 jersey Carter changed his jersey number for the first time in his career, but also began a wandering journey, in the Suns a year to get 20,000 points Carter in addition to the honor also got the Suns buyout, and then Carter signed a 3-year contract with the Lone Rangers, occasionally highlight performance but Carter is old. In the 2014-2015 season, Carter signed a three-year, $12 million contract with the Grizzlies, and at this moment, Carter has become a marginal figure on the team, with a very small 16 minutes or so per game, and then Carter traveled to the Kings and Eagles.
In a game before the epidemic shutdown, the Eagles played at home against the Knicks, there were 19.2 seconds left in overtime, the 43-year-old Carter appeared in the applause of the audience, Trae Young arced the top hand to pass the ball to Carter, who directly pulled out his hand to hit three points, no one thought that this was Carter's last song in the NBA for 22 years. With no tour and no last dance, the 43-year-old Carter said goodbye to the NBA.
22 years of career, eight All-Stars, one dunk king, one NBA Best Team Second Team, one NBA Best Team Three, in terms of hard honors, Wenscat is far from people's expectations, but as a representative of the dunk field, the darling of the All-Star vote, Vince Carter entered the Hall of Fame, it is only a matter of time, as the former North Carolina school band conductor Vince Carter knows how to grasp the rhythm.
From Toronto's hot Jordan successor, to New Jersey's top scorer, to Orlando, Phoenix, Dallas, Memphis, Atlanta, along the way Vince Carter was willing to be a role player from the spotlight of all the attention, and the transformation and adjustment of the mental journey alone has been a model for players. Because of this, compared with the other three of the four quarterbacks, Carter is less of Kobe Bryant's fierceness, Iverson's arrogance, and Maddy's wantonness, but more of a transparency and balance.
If Carter's career had been judged solely in terms of historical standing and hard honors, or regretted the heights he had not reached, Vince Carter might have laughed. Announcing his retirement, Carter said, "Basketball is a wonderful thing for me, I enjoy every second of it and I appreciate the time I've had at every stage. "I think this may be Carter's inner monologue."