Vince Carter, one of the most electrifying players of all time, arguably the best dunker of all time. Today he's seen as a great mentor for those young players in Sacramento. He's gained a lot of support after not joining a championship contending team like the Warriors of the Cavaliers, saying that he still thinks he can contribute to a team and does not want to play just 5 minutes a game, 10 minutes a game because anyone can simply do that. He believes he still has game and honestly I'm with him. Despite how old he is, he still performs at a high level for a bench player and that's all any team can ask of him. But back in the day when Vince was the man, the star player in Toronto who captivated many fans around the world, he had a disappointing 0405 season, which in fact he did not find basketball fun anymore. And frankly according to many, he possessed characteristics that were simply not him. He was simply just not interested and he was selfish, which does happen occasionally with star players. He was upset number 1 at his role on a rebuilding team with no clear plan, especially after losing his cousin, Tracy McGreddy to Orlando. And in the 2003-04 season, they only resulted in a lottery selection and they hired hard line coach Sam Mitchell. He got a sold and sweep walked through 20 games as a raptor before the raptor ended up shipping him off to New Jersey in a trade. Now you have the back story. Vince was not happy, he gained a new tough head coach and Jalen Rose was Vince's teammate at the time. And according to Rose, Vince Carter and their coach, Sam Mitchell got into a tussle that resulted in VC slamming the coach to the floor after an extended argument, which is pretty insane. So here's the story. But before I get started with the story, I'd really, really appreciate if you guys could hit that subscribe button. My goal is now to reach 250,000 before the end of 2017 and I would love your support. Anyway, I'll let Jalen Rose explain the story and afterwards I'll share my thoughts on the whole incident. Sam Mitchell incident in Toronto locker room, check 1, 2, 1, 2, tell them how you mad son. I remember being in Portland. People that won events out of town at that point, they felt like he was on the train and the table just as much as not more than the basketball court. He was getting booed in entrance. He was getting booed if you were going to get more. Now this is a guy I know that is a good teammate. We're busing grape in a fruit fight. He's just not that guy. Any time you're struggling and things aren't going so well, everybody's on edge. So we're in a locker room and somebody's on the table getting their ankles taped. I'm sitting like on a stool and Vince is sitting on the other train and table getting some treatment. Sam Mitchell was standing at the table. And Sam Mitchell made a comment to Vince about always being injured and always being on the train and table. So that's kind of how Vince merged Sam. Sam nudged Vince back. And you know how sometimes you get tangled up with somebody a little bit and a little testosterone, tired to take over. It's almost like arm wrestling. You grow a little bit, I grow a little bit and before you know what the resistance gets a little stronger until everybody's growing as hard as they can. And then of course I'm on a horse shack on the sideline. So let's get a little more physical. And before you know what they tangled up and they really trying to slam each other on the ground. So Vince got this arm underneath their crouch. So now you got them up like this. And if they're kicking and screaming you won't be able to get them up like Hulk Hogan, but you can still get them down real good. Boom! And nothing you can do about it. And when you get down it's like, and then we just made sure he had all of his bends. He didn't lose a kidney in the transaction or a rib or something. And then as grown men everybody I hate to say everybody star laughing. And then he got up and it was cool. And Vince gave each other a doubt. But obviously that relationship was never the same at that point. It's pretty crazy. According to Jaylin the incident took place in Portland before the Raptors were set to take on the trial blazers in the team's seventh game of the season. That's right. After just six games the rookie coach and his superstar scorer was so added fighting already. On top of that this was Mitchell's first month as an NBA coach. He'd been an assistant for two seasons prior but it's worth noting that it took him six whole games as a head coach to have Vince Carter actually care enough to body slam his own head coach. Pretty crazy. Worst, the point didn't work. Relative to his previous success and brilliant work with the Nets once he was dealt, Vince was in the mid-set of a miserable season. That game against Portland just a few minutes after the tussle saw Vince Carter take nine shots and only make two in 22 minutes of work. To make matters worse the trailblazers weren't very good at all and the Raptors lost by just three points. A few weeks later Vince was dealt to the Nets and the rest is history. Magically though Vince put together what was just about a career year once he hit the Nets in the 2004-05 season. Carter jumped from an above average player efficiency rating of 17 in Toronto to a top five rating of 24.5 with New Jersey. Playing in aggressive brand all the round ball that Raptor fans hadn't seen before. Really, we'd only seen Vince Carter playing the 0-4 Olympics where he was really aggressive. Once the Nets got him though he turned his play around became a new type of player. Now people credit Jason Kidd for what he did with the Nets and what he did with Vince Carter making Vince a great player but it wasn't Jason Kidd. Although Jason Kidd may have been a contributor to Vince's success in the Nets, I believe that it was Vince Carter. He was a new man. He wanted it something else. He didn't love Toronto the way they were trading him at that time and he obviously didn't like the team. He hated the coach. He didn't like the management who traded away his cousin and he just wasn't all that happy. His Nets play of style was really really fun to watch. He was still athletic. He was still determined but this time he was aggressive. Something that well people credit Jason Kidd for like I said but it was Carter that was the man. The thing is Carter never claimed close to the 2004-05 numbers over the next three seasons and for those three seasons he was playing with Jason Kidd. So people can't say that it was Jason Kidd who made Vince Carter the better player. He was Vince Carter's aggressive behavior and aggressive play style that really allowed him to take the jump. To take that jump from the star player in Toronto to a determined wanting to win an NBA championship player in New Jersey. Unfortunately as we all know Vince is never one an NBA championship and people love to hop on the fact that he should have gone to a championship contending team but I love the fact that he went to Sacramento. It proves that he doesn't really just care about NBA championships and personally I want to see him play in Sacramento because I love watching Vince Carter play. So when we watch him just enjoy what we have because he doesn't have too many years left and hopefully he will join a championship contending team in maybe one or two years and he can win an NBA championship because that's the one thing that Vince Carter really doesn't have. Although he wasn't a star player that won an MVP like Alan Ivason I was still love for Vince Carter to win an NBA championship. But the jump that he went from Toronto to New Jersey in that one year was simply because of the fact that in Toronto he felt like he was treated as a dog which is why when he came to New Jersey he had that aggressive behavior. So there you go. A pretty crazy story from a player that is definitely one of my all time favorites. If you enjoyed this video and want to watch more be sure to smash that subscribe button and if you're enjoying these types of videos definitely hit that like button as well. I really really appreciate it. I love all your guys support on the road to 250,000 subscribers. New merchandise is coming out soon. I cannot wait. It's going to be dope. Like the goal is to have the best NBA merchandise around. Let me know what players or what type of merchandise you want to see because I only want to make stuff that you guys want to buy. 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