Vincent Lamar “Vince” Carter, better known as Vince Carter, is an American basketball player and one of the biggest names in NBA, who currently plays for Dallas Maverick team of the NBA. Vince Carter has an estimated net worth of $60 million. His annual salary is $16 million and additionally he earns $5 million in endorsements every year. One of the biggest investments in Carter’s net worth was his contract with the Toronto Raptors for six years for a sum of $90 million. Moreover, in year 2007 Carter signed a $62 million contract with the New Jersey Nets for 4 years.
Vince Carter Net Worth $60 Million
Vincent Carter was born on January 26, 1977, in Daytona Beach, Florida. He attended Mainland High School there and played basketball in college under Dean Smith and Bill Guthridge – he was accepted into the University of North Carolina after school. Then no one could know how rich is Vince Carter going to be, but it was obvious that he would do well with basketball and NBA, as his amazing talent was already noticed. He played three seasons at the University of North Carolina before he was selected to play for the Golden State Warriors in the first round of the NBA Draft in 1995. Of course, this contract added some amount of money to Vince Carter’s net worth. However, after 3 years he was traded to the Toronto Raptors. Then Carter played for the Raptors until 2004. Carter’s next step to increase his net worth was successfully playing for the New Jersey Nets until the 2008-2009 season. After that Vince spent two years playing for the Orlando Magic, but then in 2011 he joined Mavericks.
Vince Carter is an eight-time NBA All-Star, moreover, he was one of three people in the world who led the NBA All-Star Game fan voting more than three times. He also won an Olympic gold medal in 2000. Of course, his basketball career has brought simply huge sums to Vince Carter’s net worth, so the NBA star founded the Embassy of Hope Foundation. In year 2007 Carter received an award for philanthropy in his home state.
Vince Carter earned most of his net worth not only because of his basketball career, but also thanks to his appearances in some TV shows, video games and films. For example, in 2004 Carter appeared on the NBA Live cover. Two years earlier he had a role in the movie called “Like Mike” directed by John Schultz. This film was produced by NBA Productions – as we can see, even Carter’s acting career is usually associated with his main passion in life – basketball.
Vince Carter married his wife Ellen Rucker in 2004, but the couple divorced after 2 years. Together they had one daughter, Kai Michelle Carter. She was born on June 1, 2005.
Because of his fascinating career today Carter has a big variety of different nicknames in basketball. The most known are “Air Canada” and “Half-Man, Half-Amazing”.
