{"id":824650,"date":"2025-01-27T13:54:24","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/?p=824650"},"modified":"2025-01-27T13:54:39","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:54:39","slug":"vince-carter-gets-his-no-15-jersey-retired-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/news\/nba\/vince-carter-gets-his-no-15-jersey-retired-in-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Vince Carter Gets His No. 15 Jersey Retired in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The premier high-flyer of the 2000s now has his jersey flying high in Brooklyn&#8217;s rafters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vince Carter, who is undeniably one of the greatest dunkers, ever, had his jersey retired during Brooklyn&#8217;s Jan. 25 game against the Miami Heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HANG TIME FOREVER. <br><br>Shouts to one of the illest ever on the Nets raising 15 to the sky, exactly where it belongs. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DEYcOye7hd\">pic.twitter.com\/DEYcOye7hd<\/a><\/p>&mdash; SLAM (@SLAMonline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SLAMonline\/status\/1883508535268700635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 26, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The ceremony was fitting for the superstar. Carter sat next to a painting of himself throwing down a thunderous dunk, while Jason Kidd and Richard Jefferson raved about his tenacious shooting and finishing. Before Lob City was popularized in LA, it was in New Jersey between Kidd and Carter. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Carter joined the formerly-named New Jersey Nets in the &#8217;04-05 season, teaming up Kidd, an elite point guard. The duo thrived, with Carter enjoying the most efficient scoring years of his illustrious career, averaging 23.6 points per game, three playoff runs and making three All-Star appearances.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;He was doing things in a Nets uniform that has never been seen before,&#8221; Nets announcer Ian Eagle said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can check out the full ceremony video below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vince Carter&#039;s FULL Nets Jersey Retirement\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2yiPCGW5Ptk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Carter watched alongside his family as his No. 15 jersey was raised, all with the Nets crowd cheering him on. After spending so much time soaring on the court, now his name\u2014immortalized in two stadiums\u2014hangs in the rafters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Salute to the legend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The premier high-flyer of the 2000s now has his jersey flying high in Brooklyn&#8217;s rafters. Vince Carter, who is undeniably one of the greatest dunkers, ever, had his jersey retired during Brooklyn&#8217;s Jan. 25 game against the Miami Heat. The ceremony was fitting for the superstar. Carter sat next to a painting of himself throwing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":543,"featured_media":824664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[5200,353],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-824650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-vince-carter"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824650"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824669,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824650\/revisions\/824669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824650"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slamonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=824650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}