HiJiNX wrote:2019nbachamps wrote:Wise80 wrote:I'm surprised at how many people want his jersey retired.
The guy gave up on the team and didn't really have that much team success.
He clearly regrets how it all unfolded, but that doesn't make it alright.
Setting the raptors trot out mcgrady, Carter (and weren't there a few others?) While they ask quit on the team, during our historic playoff run was an embarrassment.
Many of us have pointed this out already only to be called salty.
I think we can acknowledge the significance of Vince as a Raptor without celebrating him. He may be the most important Raptor ever and brought a lot of excitement to the fans. But he also didn’t achieve much and gave up on the team. I’m not enthusiastic about glorifying him.
This is the point many of us are trying to make. Which other franchise is not retiring the jersey of the most important player to ever wear it?
And the point many of us are trying to make is how do you remember all these supposedly "wonderful" things then conveniently choose to ignore the WINCE Carter and the QUIT? When the latter happened more recently?
Dude actually had more down years than good here because it was all downhill after year 3 and he was here more than 6 years. Especially the way his "jumper's knee" BS got miraculously better after the trade and his numbers jumped to rival his best year here is downright the stuff of legends. If you are going to remember the good, you cannot ignore the bad and at the end of the day, dude's a net ZERO at best. Not worth celebrating over.