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The "Dunk of Death" ("le dunk de la mort" in French) refers to a slam dunk by American basketball player Vince Carter during the 2000 Summer Olympics. After a steal, the 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m) Carter, leapt over 7 ft 2 in (2.18 m) French player Frédéric Weis. The dunk is widely considered one of the greatest and most famous of all time.
Carter is now married to Sondi Carter, an NASM trainer. [186] They have a son [187] [188] [189] and a daughter. [190] Carter has donated to his high school, Mainland High School, and he established charitable foundation, The Embassy of Hope, upon being drafted into the NBA in 1998. [191] On February 3, 2007, a statue of Carter was unveiled at ...
Vince Carter dunking in 2009. A slam dunk, also simply known as a dunk, is a type of basketball shot that is performed when a player jumps in the air, controls the ball above the horizontal plane of the rim, and scores by shoving the ball directly through the basket with one or both hands. [1]
FILE- New Jersey Nets’ Vince Carter goes up for a dunk during the third quarter of an NBA basketball game against the New York Knicks Sunday, March 8, 2009 in East Rutherford, N.J.
A look at the 13-member class of 2024 being enshrined Sunday in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame: Vince Carter. An eight-time All-Star during his NBA-record 22 seasons.
By the time Carter called it a career, he became the first NBA player to appear in four different decades. He suited up in 1,541 games – third-most on the league’s all-time list – and scored ...
Howard's rebounding is in part facilitated by his extraordinary athleticism; his running vertical leap was tested at 39.5 inches (100 cm) in 2011, rare for a player of his size. [ 149 ] [ 150 ] He demonstrated this skill in the 2007 Slam Dunk Contest , where he completed an alley oop dunk from teammate Jameer Nelson while slapping a sticker ...
GLENDALE, Ariz. – Vince Carter got the phone call on April 1. Because of it being April Fool’s Day, Carter was initially a bit leary about answering with the expectation of receiving good news ...