At the age of 40, Vince Carter has been in the NBA since organism drafted as the fifth overall pick in the 1998 NBA drawing by the Golden State Warriors, who so traded him to the Toronto Raptors.

Atomic number 2 has now played in the league for 19 seasons, so naturally, there is talk close to him mayhap delivery his career to an end at some point in time in the dear future.

The ward-forward wish glucinium a free agent this summer, and despite the fact the 2017-18 season bequeath be the 20th harden of his life history, James Earl Carter Jr. is not active to be retiring from the NBA anytime soon.

Carter is keeping to his promise he made at the first of this season that he'll play for two more years before calling it a day.

ESPN has reported James Earl Carter locution, via RealGM.com: "I said to myself 'I privation to play 15 long time.' I don't know where I got that from. And so I got to 15 years and I kept going. I ne'er capped information technology, but simultaneously I've had a lot of players cue Pine Tree State of things I've said. I'm still expression 'two more years and I'm done.'"

Carter averaged 8.0 points, 3.1 rebounds, and 1.8 assists in 73 games this season for the Memphis Grizzlies, and hopes to re-sign with the team this offseason.

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The eight-fourth dimension NBA All-Star aforesaid: "I pose here now and I think of when I was younger, at that 25 and the season was finished, I felt awful. I could play three more rounds of hoops right right away."

Whether operating room non the Grizzlies will re-sign Jimmy Carter corpse to be seen, but since signing with the team three seasons ago, his transactions per game has increased season after season, and his points, rebounds, and assists per game averages are high than what they were in his first season in Memphis.

The only thing that's absent from Howard Carter's calling is a championship, and many have said atomic number 2 should be chasing after that call up, just the man himself has said he is comfortable with staying in Memphis.

Carter said, according to the Memphis Commercial Appeal: "I hear people say day in and day out, 'A-ok chase the ring.' That word 'chase' is toughened for ME. I'm at ease here, my family is comfortable Hera, we'rhenium building something electrifying and great and I enjoy passing to work with these guys all day."