11/3/09

...There Ain't No We Either

"I'm not a reserve basketball player," Iverson said. "I've never been a reserve all my life and I'm not going to start looking at myself as a reserve. That's something for the media to talk about. It's only a big issue when the media talks about it. The subject never came up in my career until everything happened in Detroit. No one talked about me being a sub or anything like that until last year.

 

"In all the other years of my career, it's never come up. I've been a starter on All-Star teams, Olympic teams and NBA Finals teams. It's just a big deal now. I think it is something people should let go. To answer your question, no, I'm not a bench player or the sixth man. Go look at my resume, it will show you that I'm not a sixth man."

 

"I had a problem with my butt from sitting on the bench so long," Iverson said. "That's the only thing I had a problem with."

 

--Allen Iverson, Nov. 2nd 2009 after a Memphis loss where A.I. came off the bench. 

 

Locker Room Rot, perhaps a new nickname.  He's only been eligible to play one game, and this is already what's happening in Memphis.  I like A.I., I do, but this is almost a caricature of himself. 

 

3 comments:

jmac said...

His famous "you talkin about practice?" line echoes. And every time I hear it I think of Michael Jordan taking practice so seriously he punched Steve Kerr in the face.

Rings: Michael Jordan-6, Allen Iverson-0

Yeah, I'm talking about practice.

JT said...

Rings = much practice, and the right situation.

AI = not wanting to practice and making any place he is a bad situation.

Joe said...

Iverson single handedly got the 76ers to the Championship several years ago. but he is just another small baller these days. Dime a dozen.