You have all seen this. It has been proclaimed the greatest in game dunk of all time. Very fair. Let’s break it down:
2000 Olympics
Vince Carter was already known as the high flier that he is. Out of North Carolina he was getting Jordan hype. At least I think he was because I was 6 years old when this happened but I was still always picking VC in Backyard Basketball so he was legit.
Frédéric Weis was a 7’2″ star out of France. He was Drafted #15 in the 1999 NBA Draft by the Knicks but waited to come to the league.
While still playing in France he was a 4-Time French League All-Star and a member of the 2000 Coupe de France Championship team. You could say he was a pretty big deal.
Then it happened
Very tough situation to be in.
If you have ever been dunked on you understand.
If you have been dunked on more than one time like I have, you know that every tome it happens it is worse than the time before. Whether you’re playing mini hoop in your driveway or in a real game that feeling is that of your own grandmother offering you the last slice of cake then throwing it on the ground right after you say “I would love some, thank you, I love you”
Even though you feel down whenever you get caught on the receiving end of a poster, not all dunks are created equal. You have the dunks when the smaller Guard gets dunked on by a Center because he’s trying to make a play, you have the dunks where the defender of equal size is behind one step and tries to block it but the dunker gets it in, or you have the play where you’re in the wrong place at the wrong time.
That’s what we have here.
France just got the rebound and was pushing it up the floor when Vince Carter stole the ball. He had all his momentum going one way and all Frédéric Weis could do was step up and try to get in the way.
He didn’t.
Then Vince soars over him and throws down what is undoubtedly the greatest “in game dunk of all time”
Carter is 6’6″
Weis is 7’2″
He jumped OVER him.
That dunk is memorable if it was performed in a dunk contest, but this was the OLYMPICS.
Weis never played in the NBA. His career and his life were ruined right here on this fateful day in Sydney in 2000.
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