vince carter is good, very good, but no one will ever top mj. if you think about it, the timeline of when mj did his free-throw line dunk makes it more amazing. while people were obviously dunking frequently by '83, the pro's of that era did not grow up idolizing and practicing the stupendous dunks their nba idols were throwing down. that did not happen until the generation that saw mj and 'nique duel in the dunk contest and throw down huge during games took those moves to the playground and perfect them.
to put this dunk in a perspective we can all appreciate, it would be like if instead of his famous iron cross 3, j mosely threw a kang flip (or something equally outrageous) at the 98 games that was bigger and badder than anything anyone has done since then. the impact that dunk had on basketball is very similar to the impact the 3 had on skiing as a whole, and changed the way the mainstream percieved the sport.
and does anyone remember when shawn kemp used to be a nasty dunker? he was even in a few dunk contests before he began having an average of 4.3 children per year.