It’s gotta be a sign of the lockout-y times that Vince Carter, Tracy McGrady and Charles Oakley all hooked up (mostly via satellite) to chat late 90’s goodtimes in Toronto on Off The Record and “what if?” they had all stayed together.
“I’ll say this … I can recall one All-Star game, even a couple of road games. We sat together talking about ‘what if?’,” said Carter, who’s since played with the Nets, Magic and Suns since his most successful campaigns in Toronto. “I think it was just the wow factor. That team that we had was a very good team. You look at the veterans we had throughout the course of my time there: Antonio Davis, Doug Christie at one time, Dee Brown,Alvin Williams, Muggsy Bogues, Mark Jackson … we had a great nucleus of guys. We accomplished a goal that was never reached in Toronto (a playoff berth), which is always going to bring up the ‘what if’?”
A decade later and one Chris Bosh removed, the real “what if?” question behind it all still remains the same. What if someone else besides MLSE ran this team?
