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ecrazy:
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Associated Press
Posted: 1 hour ago     
 
 
 
 TORONTO (AP) - Vince Carter doesn't want to slam any longer.

The Toronto Raptors' All-Star says he's finished with his high-flying basketball style and that he sees no need to play the way he used to.
"I don't want to dunk anymore," he told the Toronto Star. "You can make a layup and get fouled."

This is the same player who made his name in the NBA by winning the 2000 slam dunk contest. He became world famous for literally jumping over a 7-foot-2 French player to get to the hoop at the Sydney Olympics a few months later.

His name is emblazoned across expensive sneakers not because he can hit a lovely fadeaway jumper -- and he can -- but because he can jump far better than most.

During the 2001 playoffs, he appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated as he drove to the hoop for a dunk. And it was his dunking that led Shaquille O'Neal to dub him, "Half-Man, Half-Amazing."
 

Doggystylin:
oh well see, now hes COMPLETELY useless

Sikx:

--- Quote from: Doggystylin on November 23, 2004, 11:07:16 PM ---oh well see, now hes COMPLETELY useless

--- End quote ---
;D

hopefully he'll still dunk ???

*Jamal*:
*sings* "BLAME CANADA.... BLAME CANADA..."

7even:
everybody who knows carter and basketball knows that this is a smart decision.. dunking RUINED him.. it build him up to a dunking-legend and therefore an overrated SG overall, yet, it also destroyed his knee and his career. I hope he gets back in shape and does a cool dunk now and then, he can't keep on dunking like a monster, his knee wouldnt do it

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