Basketball legend Vince Carter is an ESPN basketball analyst and former professional basketball player in the United States. He mostly played shooting guard and small forward in the NBA, but he did play power forward on occasion later in his career. Carter was a two-time All-NBA Team selection and an eight-time All-Star. From his debut in 1999 through his retirement in 2020, he is the first player in NBA history to have appeared in 22 seasons and four decades. Carter, dubbed “Vinsanity,” “Air Canada,” and “Half Man, Half Amazing” by some of his colleagues, was known for his leaping abilities and slam dunks. Several players, journalists, and the National Basketball Association have voted him the best dunker of all time. Carter was a prodigious three-point shooter as well as a dunker, having made the sixth most three-point field goals in league history at the time of his retirement.

The Golden State Warriors selected Carter with the fifth overall choice in the NBA draft in 1998, and then traded him to the Toronto Raptors. Carter rose to prominence in Toronto after winning the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in 1999 and the Slam Dunk Contest at the NBA All-Star Weekend in 2000. In the Summer Olympics in 2000, he won a gold medal for the United States. Carter played for the Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings, and Atlanta Hawks, among others. In 2016, he was named Twyman–Stokes Teammate of the Year.

Carter founded the Embassy of Hope Foundation off the court to help children and their families in Florida, New Jersey, and Ontario. In 2000, the Children’s Home Society named him Child Advocate of the Year, and in 2007, he earned the Florida Governor’s Points of Light award for his charity in his home state.