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Omer Osman: DeMar DeRozan on if he thinks his #10 will ever be retired by the Toronto Raptors: “I hope so.” “I was honoured enough to be here, to have a game and to see Vince [Carter], the first jersey to go up.” “I most definitely will be here when Kyle [Lowry’s] jersey go up.” “To be able to see people that I know personally, and now somebody I played with, jersey get retired, it means the most.” “Whatever happens after that, we’ll see.”
Omer Osman: Kyle Lowry on DeMar DeRozan’s #10 possibly going up in the rafters one day: “Oh yeah, definitely going up there. Without a doubt about it.” “Vince [Carter] was very deserving, and he should’ve been the first one up, and I’m so happy he was.” “Me being the second [jersey number retired], and then, possibly DeMar [DeRozan] being the next one.” “It just shows where the organization and franchise is going, right? It’s trending up, and it’s been trending up a long time. I think the appreciation of the franchise that people have now, is pretty cool.”
Esfandiar Baraheni: Like they did with Vince Carter, the Raptors will have a Kyle Lowry logo
Carter, though, learned early on that the more that he saved, the better off he would be in the future. “Back then, it’s different than now. So for us, as the young guys on our team, you want to go hang out or, you know, whatever, you go with the team to eat dinners and stuff like that. And luckily, we had a guy like Oak who cooked, so you didn’t have to spend,” the Hall of Famer revealed. “So for as many times that we didn’t want to, it made sense to do so.”
Not to say that Air Canada didn’t have his fair share of wants, but the biggest difference was that he almost never spent his NBA salary, relying on the money he received from his endorsement deals and special appearances to indulge himself. “I just knew, you know, until that one check from that big appearance, you can’t go buy cars, all the jewelry, until you can,” he emphasized. “Obviously, I had like a couple of big appearances and things that I did, deals that we signed that had nothing to do with basketball money, where I could get the jewelry because we came in the jewelry era. You know, chunky chains and all.”
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McGrady, alongside Hall of Fame forward Vince Carter, explained why an MVP award matters more, per the Cousins with Vince Carter & Tracy McGrady podcast. “The MVP of the regular season has more weight than a championship,” McGrady said. “Hell yeah, why wouldn't it? Man, name the tenth or the eleventh player on the Chicago Bulls or the Los Angeles Lakers, or the Detroit Pistons, or the Boston Celtics. Who are they? Any of those teams, name me the eleventh or the twelfth guy.”
Matas Buzelis on Luka Doncic trash talking: I don't really want to get into detail because it was some really like nasty things said, but he just started he started baking me bad, like 12 in a row, bad, and I was like I don't care, keep doing that, I don't care what you doing, keep scoring, we'll see if you can keep scoring. I have 20 at half and he has 22. So I'm chilling. Vince Carter: I'm right back at you, my boy. Buzelis: Yeah. So I end with like 23... And he ends with like 50. And it's just man, he hit this one shot... And I'm not even trying to glaze or anything, but he shot it... He was isoing, and he does that step back, shot it. I feel like in midair he like points directly down at me, and I'm in the corner, and he like turns around mid shot and it just went straight back rim. I was like, 'Oh god, that's not good.' They beat us by like 20. In the media I was saying that I'm probably not going to trash talk again to him, but I really don't care. I'm going to do it again.
Appearing on the 'Cousins' podcast with Tracy McGrady and Vince Carter, Wallace reflected on his time with Luguentz Dort. The two spent three seasons in OKC together. It's all love between the two as they were two-thirds of their three-headed perimeter-defense monster — alongside Alex Caruso. "Shoutout Lu. In my opinion, the best on-ball guard defender in the league. He’s so solid. He doesn’t gamble too often. He's one of the best," Wallace said. "I’ve learned a lot through Lu. He's one of the best guard defenders in the league for sure. Toughest assignment every night. Easily, it's him."
Vince Carter: “Donovan Mitchell just got the bag… but he had high praises about you being the best freshman ever at Louisville. Like, what did that do for your confidence? Mikel Brown Jr.: "Yeah. I mean that meant a lot… he accomplished more than I did when I was there.. But to hear that from him, that just shows that he believed in me from the get-go. I mean, we first met when I was at OTE my junior year in high school... we exchanged numbers, and ever since then, we've been very close. So, he got to see the work, he got to see the growth from my junior year to my senior year... But yeah, I mean to hear that praise from him, I mean it's a superstar in the league. So, you know, you don't take that for granted. And I appreciate him for that as well.”
Retired former NBA All-Star Vince Carter made an interesting revelation this week on the latest episode of his “Cousins with Vince Carter & Tracy McGrady” podcast. Carter said that he had interest from NBA teams to continue his playing career but decided to walk away from the game instead because of “politics.” “Even after Year 22, I still received a couple of phone calls with interest to come play that next year,” said Carter. “I wasn’t able to do it how I wanted to do it and walk away when I was ready to walk away. The politics of it now took over and I was like ‘Nah,’”
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The team has planned an event and press conference for Tuesday, July 7th — Lowry wore No. 7 — billing it to invitees as a “monumental moment” in Raptors history, per sources. The event on Tuesday is expected to set the stage for additional recognition of the so-called GROAT (the Greatest Raptor of All-Time) as the 2026-27 season unfolds, per sources, with a likely jersey retirement planned at Scotiabank Arena during the regular season, where Lowry’s No. 7 would join Vince Carter’s No. 15 as the only Raptors jersey hanging at the downtown arena.
Keerthika Uthayakumar: High scoring average in a single postseason in Raptors history: Kawhi Leonard - 30.5 in 2019 Vince Carter - 27.3 in 2001 RJ Barrett - 24.1 this year Scottie Barnes - 24.1 this year Chris Bosh - 24.0 in 2008
He will become the 13th player in NBA history to reach a 20th season, joining LeBron James, Vince Carter, Chris Paul, Dirk Nowitzki, Kevin Garnett, Kevin Willis, Robert Parish, Kyle Lowry, Udonis Haslem, Jamal Crawford, Kobe Bryant and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. "I knew a few off the top of my head, but I hadn't seen the list," Al Horford told ESPN. "It's hard to believe. It's something that, for me, I'm very grateful. It's just so hard to be in this league for that amount of years. There's a lot of commitment, a lot of sacrifice and time. I still feel like I'm able to contribute and have an impact on a team."