Cleveland Cavaliers center Tristan Thompson says it's about time the Toronto Raptors retire Vince Carter's No. 15 into the rafters of Scotiabank Arena
That’s how Tristan Thompson put it Wednesday night as he sat at his locker preparing to take on the Toronto Raptors with Carter in the arena to broadcast the season opener. All the success the Raptors have had over the past few decades, all the Canadians who now litter the league, it all goes back to Carter.
“Basically my Michael Jordan,” Thompson told Raptors OnSI. “I fell in love with the game watching him play. Watching him in the dunk contest with the throwback jerseys that they gonna wear tonight. I mean, he’s a very important pillar to my journey in falling love with the game.”, one-handed slam he had on Tim Duncan that Thompson still recalls watching as a boy. The so-called “Dunk of Death” on French center Frédéric Weis in the Olympics has been seared into Thompson’s memory.
“I mean, about time, shit,” Thompson said of Carter's jersey retirement. “I mean, if it wasn’t for Vince Carter there would be no Toronto Raptors. There's no Toronto Raptors, there ain't no myself, Cory , Shai , Jamal , Wiggins, there’d be none of us.”
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