{"id":183885,"date":"2011-09-25T23:23:59","date_gmt":"2011-09-26T04:23:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicekicks.com\/?p=183885"},"modified":"2022-09-16T03:02:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T08:02:34","slug":"day-sneaker-history-vince-carters-memorable-dunk-2000-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snkrsday.com\/day-sneaker-history-vince-carters-memorable-dunk-2000-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"This Day In Sneaker History: Vince Carter&#8217;s Memorable Dunk in the 2000 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XMrPjl-927Q\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"620\" height=\"390\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>?Thanks for the shoes. They really work.?<\/em> &#8211; Vince Carter<\/p>\n<p>The quote featured above is a note Vince Carter supposedly faxed to Nike after the 2000 Olympic games in Sydney, Australia. After involving 7&#8217;2&#8243; French center Frederic Weis in the &#8220;le dunk de la mort&#8221; (the dunk of death), who wouldn&#8217;t think it was <em>the<\/em> shoes? The 6&#8217;6&#8243; Vince Carter, wearing the Nike Shox BB4, drove to the basket, took flight, and dunked over <del datetime=\"2011-09-25T15:06:50+00:00\">on<\/del> Weis in what may be the most memorable Olympic basketball moment ever. The U.S. team went on to win the gold medal that year; however, the &#8220;le dunk de la mort&#8221; may be more unforgettable than the actual gold medal to many. If you recall, Nike re-released the Shox BB4, a shoe that incorporated Nike&#8217;s Shox technology (16 years in the making at the time), in its original colorway at select spots during the summer of 2009. Do you vividly remember this day in sneaker history?<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: Dunked On: 15 Footwear and Facial Combinations of the 2000s<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_176184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176184\" style=\"width: 620px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vince Carter dunks on Frederic Weis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_176185\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-176185\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-176185\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nike Shox BB4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_183886\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183886\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-183886\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vince Carter dunks on Frederic Weis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_183889\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-183889\" style=\"width: 395px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-183889\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vince Carter celebrates after dunk on Frederic Weis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>?Thanks for the shoes. They really work.? &#8211; Vince Carter The quote featured above is a note Vince Carter supposedly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":149,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[618],"tags":[1225736,1225494,453881,1225706,1205102],"cultivate_rss":[],"class_list":{"2":"type-post"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v24.0 (Yoast SEO v24.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>This Day In Sneaker History: Vince Carter&#039;s Memorable Dunk in the 2000 Olympics | Snkrs Day<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Where to buy This Day In Sneaker History: Vince Carter&#039;s Memorable Dunk in the 2000 Olympics shoes. 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