James Dolan says Knicks were going to trade for Vince Carter but medical team said he had a 90% severed Achilles tendon

"Was there ever a trade or signing that didn’t happen, but you really wish it did?" James Dolan: "Yeah, a long time ago. I’ve got to even remember… he ended up playing for the Nets. Oh, shoot. Great scorer. It wasn’t Grant Hill. It was a guy out of Toronto—Vince Carter. Vince Carter is a great example. We were going to do the trade. But the medical team came back and told us he had a 90% severed Achilles tendon. They said it would never hold up."*

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Dwight Howard’s Top 10 dunkers of all time: ‘Vince Carter has to be in that list, Dominique Wilkins has to be in that list, you gotta have Michael Jordan, you gotta have Shaquille O’Neal, you gotta have Darryl Dawkins, you gotta have Shawn Kemp in there… Me, I’m top 10. For me and Shaq not to be in FoxSports’ list… Shaq, he's dunking on everybody, breaking rims, so I just believe you're gonna have the best dunkers you gotta have these guys in it. Now you want to talk about dunk contest dunkers? That's a totally different thing, but if you want to talk about the best dunkers in the league you got to put the people that dunk all the time on people in there. Stromile Swift is one of the best dunkers, he didn’t get mentioned, Amare Stoudemire… -via YouTube / February 25, 2025

Noah Levick: Paul George just moved past Vince Carter, Chris Mullin and Baron Davis for 46th place on the NBA's all-time steals list. He passed Carter for ninth on the all-time made 3s list earlier this season. -via Twitter @NoahLevick / February 24, 2025

Blake Murphy: Tonight is Chris Boucher's 404th game as a Raptor, pushing him past Vince Carter for 12th in franchise history. He's ringing it in with a monster game. -via Bluesky / February 23, 2025

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