I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.

He was recognized in 2000 as Child Advocate of the Year by the Children's Home Society and received the Florida Governor's Points of Light award in 2007 for his philanthropy in his home state. Off the court Carter establiVince Carterd his Embassy of Hope Foundation assisting children and their families in Florida New Jersey and Toronto. He joined the Mavericks in 2011.