Former MLSE president Richard Peddie blasts Vince Carter and his mom
By Chris Mckee
Richard Peddie is the former President and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) and he appeared on Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown on Sportsnet 590 The Fan yesterday. Peddie didn’t mix words and blasted Vince Carter and his mother in the interview.
Richard Peddie is the former President and CEO of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) and he appeared on Prime Time Sports with Bob McCown on Sportsnet 590 The Fan yesterday.
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Peddie was CEO and President of MLSE for fourteen years before his retirement in 2011 and he appeared on McCown’s show to discuss The Carter Effect documentary that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) over the weekend.
Peddie was in the documentary and spoke about how he feels that history is being re-written with the release of the film and that it’s not exactly an accurate portrayal of how the Vince Carter saga unfolded.
McCown asked Peddie if he felt that Carter was worthy of having a banner with his name on it raised to the rafters of the Air Canada Centre.
Peddie said:
"I don’t think you can make a case for a banner for him on his body of work on the court."
He added:
"It’s a body of work. It’s playoffs, it’s cups, it’s wins and its duration of time you played with the franchise. If you look at the (Darryl) Sittler’s, the (Dave) Keon’s, the (Johnny) Bower’s, the (Wendel) Clark’s; they’re all like 12 years (with the franchise) and Vince was six and a half and he was kind of not showing up for some of that six and a half. His body of work was two playoffs."
Peddie went on to say:
"I would not support him getting a banner."
Peddie continued to discuss the accuracy of some of the comments made in The Carter Effect documentary and spoke about how Carter’s mother Michelle Carter-Scott said in the film that she loved Canada and didn’t want to leave.
He stopped short of calling Carter’s mother a liar but said:
"His mom wanted to get out of Canada big-time."
Since the screening of the film at TIFF there has been a renewed interest in Carter with the younger generation of Raptors fans romanticizing about the Carter era in Toronto.
Raptors current president Masai Ujiri spoke about how he tried to re-sign Carter at one point to bring him back to Toronto.
However, Peddie seemed determined to remind those fans who either forgot or were too young to remember just how badly the Carter saga in Toronto unfolded in the end.
Next: TIFF review: The Carter Effect documentary.
To hear the full interview with Peddie on Prime Time Sports on Sportsnet 590 The Fan click here.
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