I was watching a basketball cartoon one day, with a star point guard the central antagonist of the episode. You’ll find yourself wanting to send consolation notes to Daniels’ entire family for the way Iverson put him on the floor. Go look up “ Allen Iverson ankle breaker Antonio Daniels” on YouTube.
JORDAN IVERSON CROSSOVER PROFESSIONAL
This was a guy who never worked out in his professional career, sometimes (OK, a lot of the time) showed up drunk to practice, and still averaged almost 27 points per game in his career and had a turn as the league MVP. It’s hard to describe in words just how dominant of an athlete Iverson was better than Simmons did. We already know that he was one of the greatest high school quarterbacks in Virginia history.” I can’t fathom how much ground he could have covered on a tennis court.
He could have picked his sport in track and field and competed for an Olympic spot. He could have been a world-class boxer and a remarkable defensive center fielder and base stealer. Iverson could have been an unbelievable soccer player. He takes a superhuman pounding and keeps getting up. He’s more coordinated than everyone else. “He has better balance than everyone else. So it’s obviously time for a history lesson. As described by Bryan Graham, “to the wider public, Iverson was either a thug who hit the genetic lottery, or a misunderstood hero who couldn’t or wouldn’t outrun his past.” This was a man who pushed the NBA into its modern era, and yet even the simplest questions about him inspire the most divisive debates.
In the public eye, there is not and never was any middle ground for Iverson. Iverson is a Shakespearian-level tragic hero, undone by his own apathy, his life crumbling around him in his twilight, far past the point of no return. Rodman can just be waved off as pathetic. Iverson isn’t Dennis Rodman, universally reviled and begging the media to look at him as he tries to befriend Kim Jong Un. To understand him, you have to see both intertwined straits. It’s impossible to understand Iverson’s basketball without talking about race and culture, and it’s impossible to talk about his race and culture without talking about basketball. He was the crossover of the NBA and urban America. He was transcendent - sure, for his basketball skills, but in a more literal sense, he “transcended race, sports and pop culture.” For each vicious crossover on the hardwood, his entire being was a crossover off it.
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