After Toronto, it's New York that will celebrate Vince Carter. On January 25, number 15 of “Half Man, Half Amazing” will join the ceiling of the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, but Manhattan will also join the party.
The Empire State Building will be illuminated in red, white and blue, the old colors of the Nets for the occasion, with the number 15 which will be displayed, while rotating, on the spire of the famous New York building. Why the old Nets colors? Because these were of course still the colors of the franchise when Vince Carter was there, between 2004 and 2009, but also because the current colors of the club, white and black, will probably not make an impression in the night of the “Big Apple”…
Vince Carter will in any case become the seventh player to have his jersey retired by the club, after Drazen Petrovic (#3), Jason Kidd (#5), John Williamson (#23), Bill Melchioni (#25), Julius Erving (#32) and Buck Williams (#52). Note that number #6 of Bill Russell is also removed, as in all franchises.
And Vince Carter will thus join the very short list of players whose jersey has been retired by several franchises.
