On This Date: Vince Carter almost started a war with France

Carter posterized former Knicks draftee Frederic Weiss in Olympics

9/25/2018, 7:07 PM
General view as the New York Knicks are introduced before a game against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Madison Square Garden. / Brad Penner/USA Today Sports Images
General view as the New York Knicks are introduced before a game against the Cleveland Cavaliers at Madison Square Garden. / Brad Penner/USA Today Sports Images

The scene is the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games. Team USA and Team France were pitted against each other for the basketball Gold Metal, and the favorite USA squad was up 15 points in the second half. 

It was four minutes threw that half that Vince Carter stole a pass from France, who was trying to run in transition. And what he did after the steal made everyone watching drop their jaw.

Carter elevated and thunderously dunked over France's big man Frederic Weiss. He didn't just posterize Weiss, though. Carter completely cleared the 7-foot-2 center before flexing in front of all those watching.

Team USA would go on to win the Gold Metal game 85-75, but it was Carter's dunk that would go down in history as one of the most ferocious posters ever. 

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