Basketball player Vince Carter: career, best dunks and achievements

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Vince Carter is a famous American professional basketball player in the NBA. He currently plays as part of the Sacramento Kings club, where he plays the role of a forward or shooting guard (Carter is a fairly versatile player). Performs at number 15. Vince Carter is 198 cm tall and weighs 100 kg.

Basketball player biography

Vince Carter was born on January 26, 1977 in Daytona Beach, Florida, United States of America. In childhood, the guy studied music - he attended a circle of a brass band. After going to high school, he enrolled in several sports sections - basketball, American football and volleyball. The guy wanted to be the best everywhere! In the eighth grade, with a height of 172 centimeters, he made his first dunk. Vince's jump was the best in school. In high school, the guy realized that he wanted to connect his life with basketball. He was also an active basketball player during his college years, and in order to turn pro faster, he neglected his last year of study.

Professional career

Drafted in 1998to the Golden State Warriors. As part of the “warriors”, the player never made his debut because he was soon traded to the Toronto Raptors. In the first season 1998/99 Vince Carter took part in 50 matches. The average number of points per game was 18.3, as well as 1.5 blocks and 5.7 rebounds. At the end of the season, Vince Carter was named the best young player in the National Basketball Association. The following season, the American was elected to the National Basketball Association All-Star Game. In subsequent years, Carter appeared in stellar matches 8 more times.

Transitions to the NBA

In 2004, Vince Carter joined the New Jersey Nets, where he played until 2009. In his final year with the Nets, Carter was team captain. On June 25, 2009, the basketball player moved to the Orlando Magic team. On December 16, 2010, he signed with the Phoenix Suns. On December 12, 2011, Vince Carter joined the Dallas Mavericks. On July 12, 2014, he moved to the Memphis Grizzlies. Plays with the Sacramento Kings from 2017 to present.

NBA and National Team Achievements

Carter is an eight-time NBA All-Star. One of only six NBA players to average at least 20 points, 4 rebounds and 3 assists per game over ten seasons. In 1999, he won the NBA Rookie Award, and in 2000 he won the competition for the best slam dunkers of NBA stars. Vince Carter's best dunks are now inscribed in world basketball history. That same summer, Carter representedUnited States of America at the Summer Olympic Games, where he won the gold medal.

The best dunk in basketball history Vince Carter's Olympic dunk

September 25, 2000 at the Olympic Games in Sydney hosted a basketball match between the US and France. Newcomer V. Carter played in the American team, who randomly got into the team, because the US Election Committee revised the decision on the final application of the players. During the match, Vince Carter did something unimaginable. He made a crazy dunk, jumping over French defender Frederic Weiss, who is 2 meters 18 centimeters tall. Everyone in the hall was simply dumbfounded by what they saw, because this is a clear example of a violation of the laws of gravity on our planet. Carter's joy after the perfect dunk was filled with some kind of pain, passion, joy and anger - all this could be read in his emotions. Team USA players said that Vince had some problems in his personal life that he did not tell anyone about, and what he did was a splash of all the accumulated emotions over a long period of time. He had no personal animosity towards Frederick Weiss.

For a long time, world NBA stars and W. Carter himself tried to repeat this dunk that went down in history, but so far no one has succeeded. Even Kobe Bryant himself can't jump that high!