Vince Carter did a lot in his illustrious career, but he is missing one thing — an NBA ring.
Although Carter never recruited players, he did admit that he wanted to see one particular player playing alongside him in Toronto — former Orlando Magic and Los Angeles Lakers center Shaquille O’Neal.
“The only time I can recall is I tried to get Shaq to Toronto. I felt like it was close. It was tough at the time, just because … a lot of guys were like, What’s Canada about? It was tough to convince players that it’s a great place until they’re actually there. Even me, when I worked out for them, I didn’t really know what they had to offer until I was actually there,” Carter said.
Vince Carter says he was close to getting Shaq to join the Raptors in his prime 👀 pic.twitter.com/4AfrTHbHNx
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Carter didn’t reveal which year this was, but it was probably the time when Shaq was the leading big guy in the NBA. We can only imagine what Carter-O’Neal tandem would do together. If they played with the same team, Carter would probably have the missing piece from his career – the Larry O’Brien trophy.
