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Vince Carter won’t get chance for another retirement conversation with Kobe Bryant

As much as Carter wants, there won’t be another conversation.

Vince Carter is calling it a career after this year, his NBA-record 22nd season. Bryant played 20 seasons before leaving the game in 2016. There was a hug and parting words of ‘see you soon’ after Bryant and his daughter watched the Hawks play a game in Brooklyn earlier this season. Surely there would be time for the two NBA legends to further discuss life after basketball.

It was not to be.

Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gigi were among nine people killed in a helicopter crash Sunday in Southern California.