Vince Carter is being shopped

Y’know, we’d love to write all about Jamal Crawford’s 52 points against the Heat last night, but we’d rather crack on Vince Carter a little bit instead.

Even something simple like that gives one more material than is actually necessary, starting with his confusion at not being voted in as an All-Star starter.

Like that’s cool and all, but even better is what now looks to (us) to be the inevitable trading of Vince, partially because he’s given the Nets no guarantees he won’t just walk away as a free agent this summer, and partially because he’s just kinda Vince Carter.

Read this, though – for real.

The Nets have offered Carter for Pau Gasol, Andrei Kirilenko and Ray Allen, sources said.

“I don’t worry about stuff like that,” he said. “I just worry about making sure I’m consistent for this team. I want to be better at that. I’m not always going to have big scoring nights. I want to be able to do a lot of things for this team for us to still win.”

See, that funny to us. GM Rod just calls around everywhere offering Vince up, and people are just like, “ehhh…I dunno.”

What’s funnier still is that Vince is averaging almost 25 a game – the way we talk about him, you’d think he was sending in the Toronto tank job again. So what’s happening here? Hahaha – the fact is, we just don’t like Vince, and no matter what he does, we’ll always speak of him in an ill manner!

Seriously, what’s wrong with us? We must be the worst excuse for an “NBA commentary writing person” ever. Take a look at the stats, and the fact that the Nets are clawing their way back to “respectable”, and get with it.

Self-critical? Yes. Real? Yes. Over 6-3 with a full head of hair? UNGGGH. Yeah, you know it.

(With Pau Gasol, Vince, AK47 (despite denials), Corey Maggette (despite more denials), and maybe a Jermaine O’Neal on the block this February, it could get very, very fun. Be ready.)