Personal Life
Carter has donated to his high school, Mainland, as well as the foundation he established upon being drafted into the NBA in 1998, The Embassy of Hope. On February 3, 2007, a statue of Carter was unveiled at Mainland.
Carter visited with the Duquesne University basketball team in Pittsburgh as a show of support after its shooting incident in September 2006.
He is a member of the Omega Psi Phi fraternity.
Carter married Ellen Rucker, a doctor of chiropractic medicine, in July 2004; the couple divorced in 2006. They have one daughter, Kai Michelle Carter. born on June 1, 2005.
While with the Nets, Carter lived in Saddle River, New Jersey on the same street as Jason Kidd, and the two played ping pong and went bowling together.
In January 2010, he opened a restaurant, Vince Carter's, in Daytona, Florida.
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