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NBA All-Star Game - Vince Carter reflects on his historic slam dunk contest in 2000

Vince Carter spent six-plus seasons in Toronto helping build the NBA brand in the city and country of Canada. With the All-Star Game in Toronto and on foreign soil for the first time, Toronto's most famous Raptor recently looked back on his time with the franchise, trying to put Toronto on the NBA map and what his impact has been on basketball and a generation of players coming up in Canada.

Q: There are Canadian-born players coming up in the NBA now who grew up watching you in Toronto. Do you understand how you might've turned them on to basketball back then?