Hello, I am back with my third installment in my
blog series which is detailing the five basketball players that have given me a
different outlook on the game of basketball. The third basketball player I will
be talking about in this blog series will be an NBA soon to be Hall of Famer
Allen “Bubba Chuck” Iverson. Growing up in Philadelphia as a young basketball
fan the Sixers were automatically my favorite team. I remember watching the
Sixers games as an adolescent and thinking to myself how can somebody so small
in stature score points rapidly. Allen Iverson instantly gained my respect as a
young basketball fan because he did not care who he was playing he would go at
them. He gave everything he had in every basketball game he played. In 2001
Allen Iverson led the Philadelphia Sixers to the NBA Finals against the Los
Angeles Lakers and their two superstars Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O’Neal.
Nobody expected the 2001 Sixers to even go as far as they did in the NBA
playoffs. The Sixers even beat the Lakers on their home court in the first game
of the Finals and Allen Iverson scored 48 points to help the Sixers outlast the
Lakers in overtime. Mostly every season Iverson was with the Sixers he was the
Sixers. He would carry that team everywhere he possibly could, he proved that
when he to them to the NBA Finals and led them to a Game 1 victory. Throughout
his entire career Allen Iverson had a reputation that he was a ball hog, quick
tempered, and only cared about himself and not about what was best for the
entire team. As a fan of basketball I, myself, love watching him play the game
of basketball the way he does; however, on multiple occasions I wondered about
his play, but I understand why he plays the way he does. Allen Iverson gave his
blood, sweat, and tears to the NBA. Allen Iverson recently retired from the NBA
before the Miami Heat vs. the Philadelphia Seventy-Sixers and it brought every
tears to all of his fans. Even though he has not played in the NBA since 2010,
it was just a sad day to see one of the all-time NBA greats leave the NBA for
good. Allen Iverson will always be one of my favorite NBA players that I had a
chance to watch play, he changed the way basketball was played and called for
that he’s one of my all-time favorites.
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