Nets legend Vince Carter is receiving the highest honor his sport has to offer, having reportedly been elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame.
The Athletic was the first to report the news, which has long been considered a mortal lock.
The official announcement for the 2024 class will be made Saturday at the NCAA Final Four in Glendale, Ariz., with Chancey Billups also elected, per the report.
“It’s an honor,” Carter told the Post earlier this season. “Everybody feels one way about, ‘Oh, this has happened or hasn’t happened.’ Me, on the other side, I was like, ‘I hear you, but the reality is you never know until you know.’ And to hear your name, it becomes a reality.
“It’s an unbelievable honor just to be at this stage of it. You never know what happens. Some people say it’s a shoe-in. I don’t know. But one foot’s in the door.”
Now, Carter will have both feet firmly planted in the Hall.
The enshrinement ceremony in Springfield, Mass., is slated for Aug. 17, which will probably be the first time Carter actually sets foot inside the building.
“I’ve never been,” Carter told The Post. “I just said I’ll wait. I almost went. I got offered to go last year for Dirk [Nowitzki]; I didn’t go. [Tracy McGrady] as well; I didn’t go. I said I’ll wait.”
That wait is over, thanks to Carter’s high-flying career.
He played a league-record 22 seasons, and crammed several careers worth of highlight dunks into that impressive span. He was an eight-time All-Star, made two All-NBA teams and is 21st on the league’s all-time scoring list.
Carter was the first NBA player to appear in four separate decades.
The wing played 1,541 games — third-most all-time — and poured in 25,728 points. He had 8,834 points in 374 games for the Nets over five seasons.
“It’s surreal, obviously,” Carter told The Post. “You think of all the people that are in and all the people who are looking for that opportunity to get in.”