This has been a great month for Vince Carter fans. Last week, Vince Carter said he has no plans to call it quits anytime soon and would like to play for 20 years in the league. Today, the NBA released the best Vince Carter mix on the internet, featuring not only the best dunks from his career but a bunch of dunks and angles we have never seen!
Shout out to Nils Wagner (better known as HoopMixtape) for doing such a fantastic job on the mix. I met Nils back in 2000, when I was running a popular Vince Carter site (Got Vinsanity). We used to talk about how awesome it would be to have full access to the NBA's Vince Carter archives. Well, Nils now has the key to those archives, and he's not only doing a great job of sharing these begging-to-be-released highlights, but he's doing justice to the makers of these highlights.
NIL'S HIGH SCHOOL MIXTAPE OF VINCE
MAXAMILLION MIXTAPES
I can't talk about Vince Carter highlights without bringing up MaxaMillion711, whom I have also known since the early mixtape days of sharing NBA highlights on message boards, when social media and YouTube didn't exist. Since video streaming sites like YouTube and Vimeo didn't exist and hosting video files was extremely expensive, we used to upload videos to file-sharing sites and then share the links on basketball forums.
Thankfully, we have YouTube now, so Max can easily share videos like the ones below.
50 MINUTES OF VINSANITY
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