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Ultimately, I still feel cheated by Vince Carter and his career with nights like this reminding me just of that when I thought it was behind me. Did Vince owe the fans and me a different story arc to his career? Not really. Maybe you could argue he owed it to himself but if he’s happy fading into “what could have been” obscurity then that’s on him.
I just could have done without the diabolical casualness of his career. And I could have done without the 48-point reminder that he was an Allen Iverson heart away from burning this place to the ground.
”A year and a half after I described Vince Carter as “somewhat of a joke these days” he has posted a 48-point game, dragging the Magic from behind to beat the Hornets. An impressive achievement, but it just made Hardwood Paroxysm sad. That last paragraph gave me chills.
(via True Hoop, who dubbed it Vince Carter’s maddening night.)
