Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic <\/p>\n
Vince Carter has called having his No. 15 retired to the rafters at Barclays Center a dream. Is he ready for the dream to become reality Saturday?<\/p>\n
\u201cI think I am, but I know I\u2019m not,\u201d Carter said at the Brooklyn Paramount. \u201cOne of the guys said, \u2018But you just had one [jersey retired].\u2019 I said yes, but I could have one every year and still have the same feelings and emotion because I have a great appreciation for what this means and what this is. Everybody doesn\u2019t get the honor. I just found out that only seven guys will be up there. This is rare air.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019m very appreciative of being a part of that group, particularly when you\u2019re talking about Dr. J, somebody who I admire. J-Kidd, somebody I admire. I remember coming in, the two guys I\u2019d see [were] 32 and 52. I\u2019d always see that many years ago. So now to go up with them, I was chasing something \u2026 I want to have an impact like [they] did. So it\u2019s just truly amazing to now be here a couple days away.\u201d<\/p>\n
Carter is used to being in rare air. That\u2019s where he lived during a spectacular, high-flying career.<\/p>\n
Make that a Hall of Fame career.<\/p>\n
He joined the Nets from Toronto in December 2004, and his scoring vaulted from 15.9 points to 27.5 points over the rest of that season. In parts of five years, he helped them make the postseason three times and averaged an electric 23.6 points.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see two ball-headed, light-skin dudes racing, running for a lob,\u201d Carter reminisced in a Q & A with Richard Jefferson at Thursday\u2019s premiere of his documentary film \u201cFrom Daytona Beach to Brooklyn.\u201d<\/p>\n
The only numbers the Nets have retired are the late Dra\u017een Petrovic (3), Jason Kidd (5), John Williamson (23), Bill Melchionni (25), Julius Erving (32) and Buck Williams (52). Kidd was the last, in 2013 while he was coaching Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
That changes Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat Joe Tsai is trying to do \u2014 what Sean Marks, my former teammate, is trying to do and has done in granting me this honor \u2014 I\u2019m truly blessed,\u201d Carter said. \u201cI\u2019ve had a couple of conversations with Joe Tsai, and he\u2019s like, \u2018This had to happen. This was going to happen.\u2019 \u2026 And him wanting to do it on his watch is pretty darn spectacular.\u201d<\/p>\n
So was Carter.<\/p>\n
He ignited the Nets\u2019 with his offense, like his famous 2005 posterization of Alonzo Mourning.<\/p>\n
Jason Collins made a veteran move to help screen Mourning under the basket on that iconic play. But as much as a dunker or scorer, Collins remembers Carter as a friend, somebody who immediately supported him when he came out as gay.<\/p>\n
\u201cYeah, he\u2019s been great. When I made my announcement, he was one of the guys who reached out in support,\u201d said Collins, teammates with Carter from 2004-08. \u201cEvery time I see him \u2026 you\u2019re always just picking right back up with, \u2018Hey, how\u2019s it going? How\u2019s your family doing?\u2019 And all that again. He\u2019s a great teammate.\u201d<\/p>\n
He wasn\u2019t an All-Star but a superstar \u2014 one of the few the franchise has had.<\/p>\n
\u201cI stand by he\u2019s one of the most talented athletes to ever walk the face of the planet,\u201d said Jefferson, who played alongside Carter for four years. \u201cIt\u2019s not just the dunks. It\u2019s his ability. It\u2019s his body control. It\u2019s his quickness. It\u2019s handles. It\u2019s him shooting 35-foot 3s when no one was doing it in 2006. It\u2019s just like he\u2019s just a different human being. He was good.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s why he\u2019s had such an enduring impact on the culture, not just the game in Canada but the wave of players emulating his style.<\/p>\n
In a post-Jordan NBA, fans were looking for the singularly spectacular.<\/p>\n
They found Carter.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just iconic,\u201d Cam Johnson said. \u201cWhen you\u2019re growing up watching the game, you want to play like Vince Carter. That seems like the coolest way to play. Just go in and dunk on everybody and you can shoot from anywhere. What could be better?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Summarize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in Arabic Vince Carter has called having his No. 15 retired to the rafters at Barclays Center a dream. Is he ready for the dream to become reality Saturday? \u201cI think I am, but I know I\u2019m not,\u201d Carter said at the Brooklyn Paramount. \u201cOne of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":178796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-178795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178797,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178795\/revisions\/178797"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globetimeline.com\/ar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}