It’s shaping out to be a star-studded and household affair at Vince Carter’s Corridor of Fame induction in October.
The Toronto Raptors legend is ready to be inducted into the Corridor by presenters and fellow Pantheon members Julius Erving and Tracy McGrady, the Basketball Corridor of Fame introduced on Thursday.
The connection between Carter and McGrady is a storied one, because the gamers have been two of the primary large names to don the purple and pink of the upstart Toronto Raptors within the late Nineteen Nineties.
Greater than that, although, the 2 are second cousins — one thing they really solely realized about forward of the 1997 NBA Draft when McGrady was picked ninth general by Toronto.
Erving, in the meantime, together with being a fellow New York Nets star, can be among the best high-flyers the sport has ever seen, well-renowned as a gifted dunker predating the aerial antics of Carter.
Dr. J was additionally the first-ever winner of the dunk contest, successful the ABA’s inaugural exhibition occasion in 1976. Carter informed Yahoo in 2019 that his assembly with Erving after his personal legendary 2000 slam dunk contest win was his “Welcome to the NBA second” and that he was one in all his heroes rising up across the sport.
Carter, who completed third all-time in video games performed with 1,541 over a storied 22-year NBA profession, will, ultimately, see his likeness alongside his hero and cousin within the rafters of the corridor in Springfield, Mass., when he’s introduced the orange jacket on Oct. 12-13.
Subsequent, it’s honest to surprise who will honour him if/when the Toronto Raptors lastly determine to retire his No. 15 jersey to the rafters at Scotiabank Enviornment.
