With 14 of the current NBA teams playing boring, sub .500 basketball, and with even most winning teams suffering through attendance problems, couldn’t the NBA use a little injection of a combination of attitude, killer crossovers, and cornrows named…Allen Iverson?
Seriously, wouldn’t the Lakers or Knicks benefit from having the services of a highlight reel point guard that knows how to win and is a sure fire 1st ballot Hall of Famer? Of course, they would have to put up with him not coming to practice. Yeah, we talkin bout practice.
I know, one can point to his dip to 14 points and 4 assist averages in his 25 game return to Philadelphia in ’09-’10 and his sudden departure from Team Beskitas in Turkey, even though he was still under contract for $4 million over 2 years, but judging by his eye opening performance during the lockout, there’s no doubting that AI can still be a productive player on a contending NBA squad.
While it appears that a return to the NBA hardwood won’t be happening anytime soon, let’s take a look back in time, before all of the cornrows, neck tattoos, scoring titles to a time when Iverson was an All Big East performer, regularly schooling future NBA pros like Ray Allen at UConn and Stephon Marbury at Georgia Tech.
Allen Iverson’s Top 10 Dunks at Georgetown:
Allen Moll has been a lifelong NBA and NCAA College Basketball fan who watches and studies games religiously, and coaches youth basketball in his native Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania. Allen has also provided content to Bleacherreport.com, Upperdeckblog.com, Cleveland.com, CSN Philly.com, Buckets Magazine, in addition to being a tenured NBA and NCAA columnist for TheHoopDoctors.com.
