I was there that day.
No one who was there will ever forget it.
My sister's then-boyfriend (now husband) had never seen a basketball game live before. He still considers it the single most incredible thing he's ever seen in his life.
I am, of course, referring to the legendary Dunk De La Mort, where Vince Carter posterised 7'2" French center Frederic Weis, and scared him off ever joining the NBA when he had been drafted the year before.
If you haven't seen it, watch the clip here .
To say the crowd went wild would be an understatement. But for an 11-year-old boy in the crowd, that dunk would be more than a mere moment of brilliance.
You see, that boy had grown up on tales of Michael Jordan from his older brothers and Magic, Larry, Isiah, and Dr. J from his uncles. But he had been too young to see any of them and as such was left without a true basketball hero.
Until the American No. 9 made that jump.
The boy left the Sydney Superdome that day thinking he had found his new hero.
Of course, it wasn't easy to be a Vince Carter fan. It was difficult when the boy learnt that Vince ...
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