Vince Carter remembers the 2000 Slam Dunk Contest like it just happened, when he went from an up-and-comer to a full-fledged phenom. His success came quickly in what became a 22-year career, the longest in NBA history. Chauncey Billups struggled early, traded midway through his first season.
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Lakers defensive ace Michael Cooper, high-scoring Phoenix star Walter Davis and former Knicks champion Dick Barnett are the other NBA players in the class, with Seimone Augustus and Michele Timms making it from the WNBA. Jerry West is going in as a contributor — his third induction being enshrined as a player and with the 1960 U.S. Olympic team — along with Doug Collins and Pacers owner Herb Simon, and coaches Bo Ryan and Harley Redin from college and Charles Smith from high school.
Billups eventually got one, the NBA Finals MVP when the Detroit Pistons won the 2004 championship. He would make five All-Star teams with the Pistons and Denver Nuggets, but that was after the rocky start to his career. Carter never got a ring like Billups or Cooper — who won five of them with the Lakers — but it wasn’t his primary motivation as he kept playing late in his career, noting some of the teams he had joined weren’t serious contenders.
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