Carter was next. And he decided, on the spot, to junk the easier first dunk he’d planned to do for the more dangerous 360. “I tell you the truth,” Carter said. “That dunk, the first dunk, the reverse windmill. I had tried that, worked on it so many times, and could barely make that dunk in practice. But my adrenaline was so, so high, to where I said, ‘You know what? I think I can pull it off.’ And, that’s just what it was. KG was probably hyping me up from afar. Because I remember walking out on the court, all nervous, hands a little sweaty. I had just had surgery on my middle finger; if you go back and look, you see my fingers taped up. “I see (Jason) Kidd, Antawn, all the guys I either played college ball with or against, or in the pros. The excitement in these professionals’ — superstars’ — faces, with what I was going to do. I just gave ’em a show.”