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Tracy McGrady on Jaylen Brown: I think his frustration lies deeply within the organization and other things that… Vince Carter: Of course, of course, I knew that. McGrady: We don't really have details too. Is's just been a lot of stuff that I've been hearing just going on with the Boston organization with JB. So I think part of him is like ‘I showed you guys more of who I am as a basketball player, not only just what I did on the basketball court, but the leadership that I displayed within this team and you've seen that, not having our best player in JT. You’ve seen the different side of me and what I'm able to bring to the game of basketball.' So, all that stuff I think just came into play with him and his frustration. However, the 3-1 loss, it was devastating because this never happened in Boston's history with any other greats.
Jorge Sierra: Jaylen Brown passed Robert Parish and Patrick Ewing in playoff scoring last night. Joel Embiid moved ahead of Vince Carter.
Vince Carter: That was an angry summer, at the Olympics. I tend to dunk the basketball hard as you know, but like I was trying to pull screws loose every time and a little testier than normal, like we back and forth. I got into it with Shane Heal, he played for Australia. Like he was just back and forth who had just gotten into it the Olympics before with Charles Barkley.
Crazy Stats: Paul George has the most career postseason points (2,416) among players who never made the @NBA Finals. Paul George - 2,416 Steve Nash - 2,072 Carmelo Anthony - 1,914 Joe Johnson - 1,828 Donovan Mitchell - 1,783 Damian Lillard - 1,715 Jalen Brunson - 1,701 Terry Cummings - 1,664 Alex English - 1,661 Vince Carter - 1,593
Tracy McGrady on Kevin Durant passing Michael Jordan in scoring: That had to be a great ass feeling, man, to hear your name being mentioned and passing the great Michael Jordan. It's the longevity for me because these guys are great. They're the greatest to do it and when you have that type of skill set and you have the ability to go out and be the number one option for your team, you're going to score points. But it's just the consistency and the health in which you display year after year, getting your body in that type of shape. To go out and do that is hard to do with the wake up every single day for that amount of years and still want to do it at that level. And surpassing Mike is a phenomenal thing to do. He did it differently, and a lot of these guys are going to do it differently because of how the game has changed. Mike didn't shoot threes. So when I see these guys be like he did it in X amount of shots… Of course! Because KD shot threes, Mike really didn't shoot threes. So don't try to make the comparison that, you know, Mike uh versus KD and scoring. They did it in different ways, but they got there.
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Tracy McGrady: “Everybody is going to go with the hottest thing right now. Luka. He is on a nine game winning streak. He is averaging 40.” Vince Carter: “In those nine games. He is averaging 33 for the season.” Tracy McGrady: “Right. I think when you look at the Lakers, Luka started out the gates hot. He and AR and Bron come back. Things kind of get out of alignment a little bit… AR kind of lost his rhythm a little bit…” Tracy McGrady: “Although Luka was putting up crazy numbers in terms of leading the league and scoring, we didn't consider him one even at the halfway point of him being an MVP candidate. We talk about guys when they're hot. He's hot now, for sure. But I think when I look at the grand scheme of things, the big picture, the consistency over the whole entire season, I got to go with Jaylen Brown. JB and what he is up against. No Jayson Tatum. So that means no other All-Star alongside him… Derek White has been very good. Derek White is really good. He is one of my favorite players.”
Vince Carter: “What KD has done, he is top five all time. Michael Jordan is the standard and anytime you pass Michael Jordan in anything, that is saying something. What he has done over the course of 14 years, six championships, 32,000. Mike is Mike.” Tracy McGrady: “Mike is winning, bro.” Vince Carter: “So anytime you get the opportunity to pass him, which I know Mike sits at home, Mike don't like any of that but he is going to show you some love, but we know how Mike is. By the way, shout out to Mike. Before we go to KD, let's shout out to Mike. He got his fourth win with his NASCAR team.” Tracy McGrady: “It is good to be Michael Jordan. With KD, that had to be a great feeling, man, to hear your name being mentioned and passing the great Michael Jordan. It is the longevity for me, these guys are great. They're the greatest to do it and when you have that type of skillset and you have the ability to go out and be it.”
NBA Stat: 10 longest shots ever (in feet): Baron Davis - 89 (2001) Norm Van Lier - 84 (1977) Magic Johnson - 84 (1987) LeBron James - 83 (2007) Herb Williams - 81 (1986) Ziaire Williams - 79 (2023) Zoran Planinic - 77 (2005) 𝗝𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝗞𝘂𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴𝗮 - 𝟳𝟱 (𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲) Keon Clark - 73 (2000) Vince Carter - 72 (2016) #NBA
Keerthika Uthayakumar: Garrett Temple played with his 262nd different teammate tonight, passing Vince Carter for 2nd-most in NBA history. Temple & Jackson-Davis had not played together before tonight.
Tracy McGrady: “We don't have the talent to be trying to start two more teams… Now, can we take two teams away and add two teams? To still stay at 30. I'm saying keep it at 30.” Vince Carter: “I'm all for it, honestly. I feel like if we do that, it can go back to the old NBA where you don't get to click up because now you can take a superstar and kind of spread them to their own squad and you hold it down like we had to do. I like that. Here is my question. [The superstars] want to team up. Here is an opportunity to fix that while this is happening. The league right now needs to be restructured. The introduction of two new teams can fix some of that. Sit downs need to happen, regardless, to change a lot of things. We talked about the 65 game rule, but I feel like back in the day when you had a team, you felt a responsibility to carry the magic on your back because you were the guy.”
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Vince Carter: I remember you saying ‘Oh, man. At 50 something… man, he just need to play three quarters and sit down.’ I'm over there like: ‘Nah, man, you need to see if you can get it.’ All of a sudden, it's just like the light came on with him… Give him the ball… We turned into real fans. Did you see maybe Devin Booker 71 or Luka’s 73…Now 80. I was a fan, man. It was just fun to watch and I know a lot of people had some things to say about it.” Tracy McGrady: “The thing is, teammates have just been giving [BAM] the ball and let the player go and have a historic night... That is what we do in this league.”
How do you and Vince compare and contrast? McGrady: I’m a little bit more edgy and raw, and I take the chances that he won’t take. I take those chances, but I’m trying to get him to take a little bit of those chances sometimes. But for me, it’s like we complement each other well, because he comes from an educated background. Mom’s extremely educated. He’s educated going to UNC and graduated from UNC. I’m straight out of the gutter. Highest education in my household was high school. Mine was high school. I never went to college, so to end up in this at the same finish line with the Hall of Fame. Both of us had amazing careers in basketball. Now we’re both on NBC. It really doesn’t matter your background and where you come from. We contrast each other really well.
Perhaps inspired by listening to Naismith Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar deliver a talk the night before, VJ Edgecombe took the game seriously Friday and won MVP for Vince Carter's team at Intuit Dome. He clinched the final with two free throws to get his team to the target score of 25, edging out Carmelo Anthony's team. Earlier in the semifinal game, Edgecombe scored the final 10 points to help defeat the team selected by Tracy McGrady, finishing with 17 of his team's 41 points. Edgecombe was all smiles afterward, but he was serious with his approach. "[Vince] told us, 'Why not just play hard?' Earlier today, after practice we all decided, man, we're just going to compete," Edgecombe said. "Vince, he just wanted me to be aggressive."
Philadelphia 76ers rookie VJ Edgecombe was Team Vince's first pick of the draft that decided the NBA Rising Stars rosters. He wound up making Vince Carter look wise. With a game-winning shot in the first game and the clinching free throws in the second, Edgecombe led Team Vince to the win in the first night of the NBA's All-Star festivities at Intuit Dome.