Vince Carter, a familiar face in an unfamiliar role with the Sacramento Kings, returns to the ACC Sunday in a mentor’s role at age 40 — but still with enough moves to keep the Raptors honest.
Of course Kyle Lowry remembers, because every basketball fan in Philadelphia remembers that Sunday afternoon in late May of 2001.
A little Lowry was sitting in his family’s north Philadelphia home — “I couldn’t afford no tickets to that,” the Raptors point guard recalls — hoping against hope that one of his favourite NBA players failed, that the tiny engine of the Philadelphia 76ers would prevail in a dramatic final game of a tense Eastern Conference semifinal.