Here is Vince Carter bricking a dunk. In other news, you are old.

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Sam Laird
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Father Time is undefeated, and nothing can make you feel quite as aged as watching the sports idols of your youth fall unceremoniously back to Earth.

Now, without further ado, here is 38-year-old Vince Carter -- who was, not all that long ago, the NBA's most majestic high flier -- bricking a fast-break dunk.

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The play comes from Tuesday night's NBA preseason game between Carter's Memphis Grizzlies and the Houston Rockets. Here it is in Vine form:

As the Romanian philosopher Emile Cioran once said, "Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all."

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