Timeline: Highs and lows of Vince Carter’s career

Basketball Hall of Famer Vince Carter volition person his No. 15 jersey retired by the Toronto Raptors connected Saturday, the archetypal clip the NBA squad has honoured a erstwhile subordinate successful this way.

Here’s a timeline of important dates successful Carter’s career:

May 1, 1998: Carter declares for the upcoming NBA Draft aft 3 seasons with the University of North Carolina Tar Heels.

June 24, 1998: The Golden State Warriors draught Carter 5th wide but instantly commercialized him to the Toronto Raptors for Antawn Jamison, the No. 4 pick, his Tar Heels teammate.

Feb. 5, 1999: A lockout shortened the NBA play truthful Carter didn’t marque his pro debut until February, but erstwhile helium did helium had an contiguous interaction with his highlight-reel dunks earning him the nickname “Air Canada.” He won rookie of the twelvemonth honours aft averaging 18.3 points, 5.7 rebounds, 3 assists, 1.5 blocks and 1.1 steals per game.

Feb. 13, 2000: Carter ascends to superstardom astatine NBA All-Star with arguably the top show successful the past of the league’s slam dunk competition. He won with a reverse 360 grade windmill dunk, a between-the-legs bounce dunk, and an “elbow successful the rim” dunk. He made each of his jams connected the archetypal effort without immoderate errors.

April 23, 2000: Carter leads the Raptors to their first-ever post-season berth. He averaged 25.7 points per crippled successful the regular play but Toronto was swept by the New York Knicks 3-0 successful the best-of-five series.

May 20, 2001: Carter missed a perchance game-winning changeable with 2 seconds near to play successful Game 7 of Toronto’s second-round playoff bid against the Philadelphia 76ers. He drew immoderate disapproval from fans and media for attending his assemblage graduation earlier that time aft completing a grade successful Afro-American Studies.

Aug. 4, 2001: Carter signed a six-year declaration hold worthy arsenic overmuch arsenic US$94 million.

2001-02 season: Knee issues started to nag Carter and helium missed the last 22 games of the regular play arsenic good arsenic Toronto’s first-round playoff bid with the Detroit Pistons. He had off-season genu country to effort and repair the damage.

Feb. 9, 2003: Although the starring vote-getter, Carter is wide criticized for not stepping speech to let Michael Jordan to beryllium successful the Eastern Conference’s starting lineup for his last all-star game. Carter gave up his spot to Jordan minutes earlier tip-off, allowing the all-time large to commencement successful the all-star crippled successful his status year.

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Dec. 17, 2004: General manager Glen Grunwald, who traded for Carter connected his draught night, and the full Raptors coaching unit were fired during the off-season. New GM Rob Babcock trades Carter to the New Jersey Nets for Alonzo Mourning, Aaron Williams, Eric Williams and 2 archetypal circular draught picks aft weeks of speculation.

Jan. 4, 2020: Carter checks into the crippled for the Atlanta Hawks — his eighth NBA squad — during a 116—111 triumph implicit the Indiana Pacers. The quality makes him the lone subordinate successful NBA past to person played successful 4 antithetic decades.

March 11, 2020: Carter returned to the level successful the last seconds of a crippled against the New York Knicks, making a three-pointer. It becomes his last NBA crippled aft the league suspends the play owed to the COVID-19 pandemic.

June 25, 2020: Carter officially retires from the NBA astatine the property of 43.

April 6, 2024: Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame successful Springfield, Mass., announces that Carter volition beryllium enshrined connected Oct. 12.

This study by The Canadian Press was archetypal published Nov. 1, 2024.