NO THREAD ON ALLEN IVERSONS SIXER JERSEY RETIREMENT TONIGHT?

[WheresWallace]

Here is the interview with the crooked referee that was specifically NOT giving Iverson calls. Dude was tryna make the young gawd lose.

 

[pete clemenza]

Cool ceremony.. but damn my nicca needed a nice suit for this monumental event

 

[Wacky D]

Talk about him all you want and knock the shooting percentage if you like but AI got buckets on the court and the real fans know how nice he was. It's not like he was a bad shooter, he just thought he could make every shot that he took no matter what. He could probably still be in the league now but that ego and refusal to take a backup role is the only thing that stopped that.

iverson never refused a backup role.

he just refused to be a backup for chitty players on chitty teams. and somebody of iverson's caliber who did so much for the league and generated so much money, they should never even be put in such a situation.

 

[Reggie]

iverson never refused a backup role.

he just refused to be a backup for chitty players on chitty teams. and somebody of iverson's caliber who did so much for the league and generated so much money, they should never even be put in such a situation.

Exactly. While Chuck never said he wouldn't take a backup role teams no it wouldn't be long at all before he started to gripe if some mediocre player was starting over him.

 

[Wacky D]

Exactly. While Chuck never said he wouldn't take a backup role teams no it wouldn't be long at all before he started to gripe if some mediocre player was starting over him.

and rightfully so. think about what youre saying here dog. first ballot hall of famers should never be benched behind a mediocre player.

that chit is a slap in the face. it never happened before the iverson chit, and it prolly will never happen again.

 

[Majestic Pape]

Exactly. While Chuck never said he wouldn't take a backup role teams no it wouldn't be long at all before he started to gripe if some mediocre player was starting over him.

And he SHOULD gripe. I mean, Iverson had a point... he shouldn't have been coming off the bench for Mike Conley and fukking O.J. Mayo at that time.

 

[Reggie]

and rightfully so. think about what youre saying here dog. first ballot hall of famers should never be benched behind a mediocre player.

that chit is a slap in the face. it never happened before the iverson chit, and it prolly will never happen again.

I never said that he wasn't justified in bytching. Just that teams weren't trying to sign him as a starter and if he did sign it wouldn't be long before he started raising hell.

 

[Wacky D]

I never said that he wasn't justified in bytching. Just that teams weren't trying to sign him as a starter and if he did sign it wouldn't be long before he started raising hell.

well i wouldnt call it "bytching" if the complaing is justified.

thing is, i dont think iverson was really interested in playing for anymore bad teams at that point(at least before the desperation set in). he was trying to get on a contender squad. he had no problem playing behind ray allen & ginoboli, even tho was better than them.