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Vince Carter

By Chris Strauss

Monday, April 13, 2009

Since our first issue, in March 1998, ESPN The Magazine has tried to identify NEXT: the athletes who will change the face of their sports. As our 10th anniversary approaches, we'll go back in time to meet them Before They Were NEXT. This athlete was in his second season with the Raptors (we were in our second year, too) when we anointed him. We were just confirming what his sixth-grade buddies at Campbell Middle School in Daytona Beach had known since the day he saw them trying to dunk tennis ba ...

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