Forgive & Forget; The Vince Carter Story

How 'bout it guys, is time we bury the hatchet with VC?
If you ask this blogger, he'd tell you it's time for the city of Toronto to forgive and forget.
Or maybe we have forgotten, just not the right things. It would seem Raptor fans forgot the way VC sent shockwaves through the league with his electrifying dunks and clutch play. The Raptors as a franchise owe their entire identity to VC because lets face it, before he was with us we were nobody. And guess what, after he left we once again were off the leagues radar. Just another bottom feeder team hoping for a miracle in the draft, hoping for an Andrew Wiggins (more about him to come). Kevin Durant himself said on record that of all things, growing up he had hoped to become a Toronto Raptor. Thank you Vince.


Personally I don't blame Vince for the way he left the city. He had been nothing but professional while having to deal with a GM that cared less how their franchise player felt about the direction of the team. I can go on forever on why the GM at the time (whose name I won't even mention) holds the crown for worst GM of all time of any sport, but I'm not sure how the laws around slander and such works, so let me reserve that opinion.

In short, VC brought more than just a league wide buzz to the Raptors, he also brought basketball as a whole to Canada. Ask any of the 10 Canadian NBA players that have made the league in the last 3 seasons who they idolized or what made them love the game and I'm confident that among other things they will   mention Vince Carter.

So I thank Vince for what he has done for Canadian basketball, and the city of Toronto, and I would love nothing more than to see that jersey #15 get raised into the rafters in honor of what he's done as a Raptor (for the non-sports readers, this means his number should be retired).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVC3yBHjNvo (For those of you who aren't familiar with the 2000 Dunk contest)