Born in Florida in 1977, he was interested in basketball from an early age, in high school he played with his peers in a small but prestigious McDonald’s All American meeting full of spectacular plays and dunks. He is still known in this last field of basketball handicraft to this day, but before he won the dunk competition during the NBA Stars Match he had to hit the league before. Elected in 1998 by the Toronto Raptors, he remained loyal to the team until 2004.
The team was rather a league medium, playing on the position of defender or low winger with the nickname "Air Canada" the player was its leader, he was awarded the title of Rookie Of The Year for the best first-year student. He also introduced the Canadian team for the first time to the playoffs, with an average of over 26 points scored per match. A real sensation, however, brought him one February evening of NBA stars in 2000, when he won the dunk competition in The Arena Of Oakland in an excellent style. Below you can see what the judges put in:
After such a spectacular feat, which many expected further development and improvement of statistics in each area, "Half Man, Half Amazing" sort of fulfilled the hopes placed in it, but definitely at the moment his path got injuries, mainly knees. Despite this, he was still the best scoring team in the Raptors team, but only until 2004 when the owners decided to rejuvenate the team and get rid of several players. Unhappy with this turn of events, the basketball player found himself in the New Jersey Nets, one of the seven teams in which he continued his career. He helped the team advance to the playoffs in the next few seasons before the colors changed. After 2009, he played in Orlando Magic, Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks, Memphis Grizzles, Sacramento Kings and Atlanta Hawks. In the latter, after record and unattainable even for Michel Jordan, 22 seasons he retired. Interrupted by a pandemic in 2020, the season also allowed him to become the only player who "licked" games in the next four decades.
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