Vince Carter ready to enter rare air with Nets jersey retirement

Vince Carter has called having his No.15 retired to the rafters at Barclays Center a dream.

Is he ready for the dream to become reality Saturday?“I think I am, but I know I’m not,” Carter said at the Brooklyn Paramount.“One of the guys said, ‘But you just had one [jersey retired].’ I said yes, but I could have one every year and still have the same feelings and emotion because I have a great appreciation for what this means and what this is.

Everybody doesn’t get the honor.I just found out that only seven guys will be up there.

This is rare air.“So I’m very appreciative of being a part of that group, particularly when you’re talking about Dr.J, somebody who I admire.

J-Kidd, somebody I admire.I remember coming in, the two guys I’d see [were] 32 and 52.

I’d always see that many years ago.So now to go up with them, I was chasing something … I want to have an impact like [they] did.

So it’s just truly amazing to now be here a couple days away.”Carter is used to being in rare air.That’s where he lived during a spectacular, high-flying career.Make that a Hall of Fame career.He joined the Nets from Toronto in December 2004, and his scoring vaulted from 15.9 points to 27.5 points over the rest of that season.

In parts of five years, he helped them make the postseason three times and averaged an electric 23.6 points.“You see two ball-headed, light-skin dudes racing, running for a lob,” Carter reminisced in a Q & A with Richard Jefferson at Thursday’s premiere of his documentary film “From Daytona Beach to Brooklyn.”The only numbers the Nets have retired are the late Dražen Petrovic (3), Jason Kidd (5), John Williamson (23), Bill Melchionni (25), Julius Erving (32) and Buck Williams (52).Kidd was the last, in 2013 while he was coaching Brooklyn.That changes Saturday.“What Joe Tsai is trying to do — what Sean Marks, my former teammate, is trying to do and has done in granting me this honor — I’m truly blessed,” ...