Umm. This is kinda stupid:

Raptors fans with long memories didn’t get the chance to boo Magic SG Vince Carter, who was scratched with an injury on Sunday.

But that opportunity might come Nov. 22 at Air Canada Centre when the player who demanded out of Toronto after six-plus seasons will be … honored by the franchise as part of their 15th anniversary celebration.

The Raptors say they will first ask Carter if he wants to go through with a ceremony, realizing the back-story.

“Everybody wants to know how we can do it, but Vince is part of the history here,” Raptors General Manager Bryan Colangelo told the Sentinel. “Most of the people that he had problems with here are gone.”

But it’s the fans who have booed Carter each time he has returned since the Raptors dealt him to the New Jersey Nets in 2004.

Even considering acknowledging he whose name I refuse to type is absolutely absurd. Lest we forget, that awful excuse for a teammate threw games while he was in Toronto. Isn’t that illegal? To conspire against the State? To betray your fellow citizens? To commit treason? Do you think Benedict Arnold was ever “celebrated” for his early, pre-treason contributions to the US? No. No, he wasn’t. So please, Bryan, just focus on honouring those people that stood by the team throughout its history, through thick and thin, without developing a case of “jumper’s knee” when the going got tough. Because your assertion that, “Most of the people that he had problems with here are gone,” is completely ill-informed – we’re all still here.

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