<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Vince Carter career timeline TSN.ca Staff 12/17/2004 The Toronto Raptors on Friday traded Vince Carter to the New Jersey Nets for Alonzo Mourning, Eric Williams, Aaron Williams and two first-round draft picks. Below is a year-by-year look at Carter's career since entering the NBA. 1998 - Vince Carter drafted fifth overall by the Golden State Warriors. The Warriors traded the rights to Carter and cash to Toronto for Antawn Jamison. 1998-99 - NBA Rookie of the Year and first-team all rookie. 1999-2000 - Played in NBA all-star game. Led NBA in all-star voting for first time. Slam Dunk Champion. Third-team all NBA. Led Raptors to first playoff appearance (first round loss to New York Knicks). 2000 - Member of gold-medal winning U.S. Olympic Team. 2000-01 - Played in NBA all-star game. Led NBA in all-star voting. Second-team all NBA. Led Raptors to second round of NBA Playoffs. Graduated from University of North Carolina. Became Raptors all-time leading scorer. 2001-02 - Named to NBA all-star team but missed game due to injury. Raptors made playoffs, but Carter did not play due to injury. 2002-03 - Played in NBA all-star game. Became Raptors all-time three-point field goal leader. 2003-04 - Played in NBA all-star game. Led NBA in all-star voting for fourth time (second highest vote total of all-time with 2,127,183).</div> http://www.tsn.ca/nba/news_story.asp?id=108402
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">2000-01 - Played in NBA all-star game. Led NBA in all-star voting. Second-team all NBA. Led Raptors to second round of NBA Playoffs. Graduated from University of North Carolina. Became Raptors all-time leading scorer.</div> That season was Carter at his best and I praise him for that. That duel with Iverson and the 76ers in 00-01 was one of the best head-to-head battles ever. Iverson scores 50, Caters scores 52 it kept going back and forth and the series ended with a desperation shot. In that series both Iverson and Carter were winners in my eyes. And just for the record, if Carter continued where he left off from that season I could easily say that he would arguably be the best player in the NBA today. That vintage Carter in that we seen in the last 90?s to early 00?s was an amazing player that wasn?t no where near his prime.
