Carter was inducted into the Hall of Fame in August 2024, and his Nets jersey was retired by the team on January 25, 2025. He is the Nets’ third leading all-time scorer.

Carter was a member of YES’ team which was nominated for a 2025 New York Emmy for its season-long Nets coverage. In addition to his YES work, he joined NBC Sports’ and Peacock’s NBA team as a studio prior to the 2025-26 season. He had been a studio analyst on TNT’s NBA coverage the previous season.

From 2020-23, Carter was an NBA and college basketball studio and game analyst at ESPN, where he also appeared on programs such as NBA Today, Countdown, Get Up and First Take. In addition, he hosted Vince’s Places.

While working for ESPN, Carter was also an analyst for Bally Sports Southeast’s Atlanta Hawks telecasts during the 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 seasons and for Bally Sports Florida’s Orlando Magic telecasts during the 2022-23 season.

Carter was named a McDonald’s All-American in 1995 while at Mainland High School in Daytona Beach, Fla. He then played three seasons at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, helping lead the Tar Heels to the 1997 and 1998 Final Fours. The Golden State Warriors selected him with the fifth overall pick of the 1998 NBA Draft before immediately trading him to the Toronto Raptors, where he played through 2004.

Carter’s NBA career spanned 22 years, the longest playing career in NBA history. He won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award in 1998-99. Carter, whose nicknames included “Air Canada” “Half Man, Half Amazing” and “Vinsanity,” was named to the NBA All-Star Game eight times and was a member of the United States Men’s National Basketball team that won a Gold Medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

In addition to the Raptors and Nets, Carter played for the Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks, Memphis Grizzlies, Sacramento Kings, the Magic and the Hawks. He scored 25,728 points in his career, good for 20th on the NBA all-time list.

Off the court, he established the Embassy of Hope Foundation, providing vital assistance to children and their families in New Jersey, Florida and Ontario.