Vince Carter Reveals Next Season Will be His Last in the NBA

The elder statesman of the NBA will be walking away from the game after his 22nd season in the league.

Vince Carter, an eight-time All-Star who electrified the league with his gravity-defying dunks, announced that the 2019-20 season will be his last.

Carter's 22nd season will break a tie with Dominique Wilkins, Kevin Garnett, and Dirk Nowitzki for the most by one player in NBA history.

Carter, who played last season with the Atlanta Hawks while serving as a pseudo-mentor for Trae Young, made his name north of the border, where he and Tracy McGrady helped establish the Toronto Raptors as a legit NBA franchise. A trade to New Jersey didn't slow him down, as he became the Nets' cornerstone during the late 2000s.

Since then, Carter has bounced around the league, serving as a quality veteran addition of the bench for the last decade.

Of course, no summation of the 42-year-old baller's career would be complete without mentioning his 2000 Dunk Contest performance that hasn't been equalled to this day, or the time when he jumped OVER 7-foot-2 center Frederic Weis.

The last holdover from the high-flying, physical era that the late 90s and early 2000s were, Carter's presence around the game today is immeasurable. Seeing No. 15 slam one home will be sorely missed.