Half-Man Half-Amazing Leaves An Impact Beyond Dunks

Posted Dec 27, 2018
If you didn't realize that Vince Carter was one of the NBA's all-time great three-point shooters, you're not alone. Sometimes the dunks get in the way. The Half-Man, Half-Amazing dunks embedded themselves deep in the cortex of our cumulative basketball brain. The fact that he scored 6,450 of his 25,085 points on threes stayed secondary in our memories. (Atlanta Hawks)

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