UNCASVILLE, Conn. -- Vince Carter remembers the 2000 Slam Dunk Contest like it just happened, when he went from an up-and-comer to a full-fledged phenom.He had been the NBA Rookie of the Year the season before with Toronto and now he was a first-time All-Star. But when he slammed the ball down in Oakland, leaping so high with such force that he put his arm through the rim, he had created perhaps the biggest highlight of a Hall of Fame career that would last another 20 years."What the dunk contest did for me, overnight it changed my life," Carter said Saturday during a press conference at Mohegan Sun Casino to discuss his induction.Some players have careers like that, where they seem to hit the ground running from the moment they are drafted and never stop -- in Carter's case until he had played an NBA-record 22 seasons.And then there are guys like Chauncey Billups.The No. 3 pick in the 1997 draft was traded by Boston in his first season and had already played for four teams in his first four seasons.There's more than one way to reach the Hall of Fame.Billups eventually found his footing and on Sunday will join Carter as the headline names in the 13-member class that will be enshrined in Springfield, Massachusetts, not far from where his first NBA stop went so poorly that some labeled him a bust.Billups, now the coach of the Portland Trail Blazers, wouldn't have changed a thing."It's just my journey," Billups said. "Everybody's is totally diff ...