Vince Carter interview

[jim rockford]

quick perusal and i didn't see a link to this or similar article (assume he may have talked to other media at same time). had no idea VC was coming back tonight.

so, did he ask for a trade or not? my head hurt after reading that

http://sports.nationalpost.com/2012/12/ ... is-future/

[CreaM]

Bring him home.

[Sandman88]

We miss you Vince. Save us!

[lobosloboslobos]

It's so goddam sad the way it turned out. I honestly don't understand it. Maybe Vince didn't demand to leave, but he sure as hell changed as a player, and his body language said "I don't give a crap" more clearly than any athlete's I have ever seen. If Vince had stayed, had gotten over his juvenile attitude and gotten serious, our whole history as a franchise would have been so different. We could have had a top-10 player in the league for a decade, a guy other guys would really WANT to come play with, a guy who could take any game and just shake it to pieces. It would have been such an enjoyable ride...

Instead it is what it is, for him and for the team and for us the fans. Had he just been a guy on another team who wasted his talents I'd care very little about his having let himself down, but it's what he did to Raps fans that still bugs me. He always seemed like a nice guy, still does, and he can obviously live with himself so who am I to judge, but the thought of what might have been is pretty hard to take...

[KnickerBonkerz]

I don't think the fans at the ACC even know why they're booing Vince Carter

It just makes the fanbase look bitter and pathetic


Also, I think the organization played a big role in letting Vince go. Up until that point we had been spoiled for the most part.. We had Damon, Vince and T-Mac, and then got Bosh. I think they just thought it would be easy to groom Bosh into the next Franchise player and we would pick up where we left off.

And nowadays it's even harder to find a superstar =(

[Illuminati_]

I don't think the fans at the ACC even know why they're booing Vince Carter

It just makes the fanbase look bitter and pathetic

So true. And of course Jack will heavily criticize the mavs yet refrain from calling out these fans.

[RaptorReloaded]

The day VC was traded to me was like 9/11 in the sence that I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it happened.

[nonc]

I don't think the fans at the ACC even know why they're booing Vince Carter

It just makes the fanbase look bitter and pathetic

they don't, i laugh at any poser over 16yo booing. thankfully it's not nearly as loud though... step in the right direction.

[TheFreshPrince]

I don't think the fans at the ACC even know why they're booing Vince Carter

It just makes the fanbase look bitter and pathetic

they don't, i laugh at any poser over 16yo booing. thankfully it's not nearly as loud though... step in the right direction.

And if they're 16 or under now that means they were 8 and under at the time VC left, which means they don't have any clue of why the situation even happened. A bunch of idiots everywhere in the arena, and the actual smart people get sadly downed out.

[andyo]

I was only about about 12 when he got traded and not nearly as knowledgeable as I am now. Even I knew the trade stunk and I don't think I've ever been as devastated by a player leaving, in any sport, on any team I've followed. Cujo would probably be a distant second.

[J-Roc]

Meh, a bunch of garbage. He demanded a trade. No one boos him because we think he hated Toronto. We boo him because he wanted to go help the fans in the swamp of Jersey win, rather than his fans here. gtfo with this jersey retiring crap. Go let Jersey do that for you. Oh right, no more team in NJ. Oh right, you were only ever considered a Richard Jefferson caliber player to the real star J KIdd. g t f o

[J Dilla]

The day VC was traded to me was like 9/11 in the sence that I remember exactly where I was and what I was doing when it happened.

I remember. Last day of school heading to the christmas break, I was so excited and relieved.

As soon as I walked home from the bus, I logged on to sportsnet.ca and my heart stopped for a few seconds. Vince Carter traded to Nets. My entire day was ruined.

The song that was playing? Disco Inferno - 50 cent lol.

The saddest day as a raptor fan

[FrozenLeafz]

*sigh*

[KnickerBonkerz]

Meh, a bunch of garbage. He demanded a trade. No one boos him because we think he hated Toronto. We boo him because he wanted to go help the fans in the swamp of Jersey win, rather than his fans here. gtfo with this jersey retiring crap. Go let Jersey do that for you. Oh right, no more team in NJ. Oh right, you were only ever considered a Richard Jefferson caliber player to the real star J KIdd. g t f o

This is what I was talking about when I said bitter and pathetic

There was a time when I had this type of hatred for the guy, but that was when he was still in a Raptors uniform half assing it. I think Babcock deserved the hatred after the trade, I mean it's not like people were booing Vince while he was still a Raptor, so why boo him after he gets traded just cuz we got jack sh** for him? You could make the argument "ohh he diminished his trade value", okay sure.. but why would you trade him then? Wy didn't Babcock wait until the offseason where we could've got much more for him?

But the point is, do you see any other teams booing a player that left their team almost a decade ago? Time to grow up and put our big boy pants on. Get over it

/end thread

[KnickerBonkerz]

PS I don't know why people think he requested specifically to go to New Jersey... he didn't. He a requested a trade period. He didn't do what Dwight and Melo did where they limited their teams' options for who to do a deal with.