There’s been a movement trying to encourage former Dunk Champion Vince Carter to enter the Dunk contest one last time.
Carter is turning 42 years old in January, and really has nothing to prove, and would hate to tarnish his legacy by being a novelty at the February All-Star game.
“I don’t think about doing it,” the Atlanta Hawks veteran told teammate Kent Bazemore and Annie Finberg on The Ringer’s “Winging It” podcast . “We all … go back and talk about the dunk contest from 2000 and what it did for people and where you were and all of that, and I know what it did for me. So I feel like to taint it, 18-19 years later, why?”
Carter knows his epic dunks would be too much to live up to now.
“I think if I step on the court for someone to see a dunk, the first thing you’re going to think about is 2000,” he said. “And you’re gonna compare that to 18-19 years later. And that’s just too much time in between. What that did for me then, I don’t ever want to tarnish it. And I feel like going out there, I’m just trying to relive something that should be left alone. Just like when we think some of our classic movies, like let’s not reboot or remake, let’s just leave it alone.”
VC is still half man half amazing at his age. [
Smart move not to ever do it again.
Take a look below at some of his best dunks ever.
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