Vince Carter has had quite the remarkable career, but there is one day that stands out above the rest of them. People in Toronto already knew who he was, and had helped make a hockey town into a basketball town, almost overnight.
On February 12th, 2000 it was All-Star Saturday night in Oakland and that is when Carter let the whole world know exactly what he was about…
And the craze of “Vinsanity” started.
Carter sat down with Brad Fay of SportsNet to talk about the night that changed his life forever. Carter said stepping into Oracle now, is a bit different than the few years that followed that night. The first few years Carter would just get chills and would remember everything, what tunnel he walked out of, what basket he warmed up on, and what basket the magic went down.
The most surprising part of that night was every dunk that he did wasn't actually apart of the original plan.
“All the dunks I wanted to do, I scraped, I didn't think it was good enough. I thought it was good enough when I walked in, got to the layup line, felt the buzz in the air, and knew I had to go deeper.”
Carter said the first dunk, the reverse dunk he could barely do two weeks before, but he got some sort of adrenaline when he stepped up to do it and made it look really easy.
Everyone knows what happened after the dunk contest and what a craze Carter became, but it was one night in February that started it all.
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