News on Youtube Nov 22 2018

As one of the last remaining active players of the 1998 NBA Draft, Vince Carter is only

the fourth player to ever play 21 seasons in the NBA.

Carter's lengthy exceptional career is full of highlight-reel level dunks, explosive scoring

performances and downright iconic moments in basketball history.

But let's face it, Vince Carter now, is old. In fact, the oldest active player in

the NBA.

So what better way to celebrate "Vinsanity's" storied career, than to show just how old

he is.

Let's start on draft night, 1998.

When Carter was walking across the stage to shake then-commissioner, David Stern's hand.

Boston Celtics budding phenom Jayson Tatum was just three months old.

Carter's new teammate Trae Young wasn't even born yet.

And actually, most of the 2018 NBA Draft class wasn't alive when Carter was throwing down

windmill dunks on his way to win the Rookie of the Year and then shock the world in the

2000 NBA Dunk Contest.

At the start of the New Millennium, when the whole world was freaking out about Y2K, and

the "end of the world," Carter was defying gravity and possibility dunking over 7-foot-2

French basketball player, Frederic Weis, in the 2000 Olympics.

In 2001, when Barry Bonds broke Mark McGwire's home run record, Carter was averaging a career-high

27 points a game and leading the Raptors to a first round playoff win over the New York

Knicks, that was back when the Knicks were at least semi-relevant.

And a dynasty was brewing out in Los Angeles as the Shaq/Kobe era kicked off with the Lakers

winning their first of three-straight championships.

Let's move to 2003, when Michael Jordan started his final All-Star game.

Vince Carter was the one who made that possible.

The classy Carter gave up his starting spot to Jordan for one final send-off.

2003 was also the year that the second Fast and the Furious movie released, a movie franchise

that 15 years later they've already made eight of, with two more on the way.

When the final episode of Friends aired in 2005, Carter was getting traded to the Nets,

back when they were still in New Jersey...and a pretty good Nets team.

Carter knows what the league was like before NBA Twitter, before burner accounts and when

the Oklahoma City Thunder were still the Seattle SuperSonics.

Back when NBA fashion was just an endless sea of oversized, ill-fitted suits and the

dunk contest was actually entertaining.

When Carter was 30, making his last All-Star appearance in 2007, Apple released the first

iPhone.

Some of his younger teammates don't even know what life was like without cell phones.

Carter is one of the last remaining active players who played through both NBA lockouts,

and played in an era where Michael Jordan's GOAT status was never questioned.

At age 41, Carter has played on eight different teams, he's been the face of the franchise

twice, he's hit big shots in the playoffs and is arguably the greatest dunker of all

time.

He may be up there in age, but make no mistake, he can still show you why he is half-man/half-amazing.