Vince Carter only spent one year in Sacramento, but he left his mark on the franchise in more ways than one.

Carter set an example of professionalism for the young Kings during the 2017-18 season, both on the court and off. Harry Giles III and De’Aaron Fox, among others, lauded Carter for teaching them how talk on defense or how to conduct themselves with the media. Carter helped make the Kings better as a basketball team, but a group of recently-drafted players benefited from his life lessons as well.

It turns out it wasn’t just the young players who heeded Carter’s example. Garrett Temple was 30 years old when he arrived in Sacramento, and 31 when he became Carter’s teammate, yet he learned as much from the newly-retired legend as anyone.

In a retrospective on Carter’s career in Complex, Temple explains what Carter taught him about being a leader on a young team:

Since his time in Sacramento, Temple has been in Memphis, Los Angeles, and Brooklyn. Being able to communicate with younger players has been particularly handy with the Nets, who have been ravaged by injury this season and currently have nine players 25 and under on their roster. Temple has also gone on to be a vice president of the National Basketball Players Association, further utilizing his skills as a leader.

Temple won’t have to make the same career transition that Carter did — he has settled in to being a glue guy for the bulk of his time in the NBA. But it’s nice to see that Temple managed to learn so much from a player whose professional arc was so different from his own, and that he can trace those lessons to his time with the Kings.