Allen Iverson
Allen Iverson
Allen Ezail Iversonis an American retired professional basketball player who played for 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association. He played both the shooting guard and point guard positions. Iverson was an eleven-time NBA All-Star, won the All-Star game MVP award in 2001 and 2005, and was the NBA's Most Valuable Playerin 2001...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth7 June 1975
CityHampton, VA
CountryUnited States of America
There may be one million people who love me, there may be 10 million people who hate me. What do I do? I go to battle for those 1 million people.
This is what you want. You want the big contract, and you want the people to show how much they want you. That's what Billy did today with those guys. He accepted them. It's important, because have some chemistry with each other. Sam and Kyle, they're starters on the team. I like the look of our team, and I like the direction we're heading. I'm just looking forward to trying to win a championship with them.
You've heard me say it a million times just from me being in here so long. You can have all the talent in the world, but if you don't have any heart, you're going to struggle as a player, and if the team doesn't have the heart, then the team is going to struggle.
You might see effort, but you don't see enough to get us wins.
You play 82 games, and it's unheard of that you win every game, but this is one we should have had,
Once you get away and come back, you're ready to go. But knowing it's a fresh start, like a new season; we're taking it one game at a time.
As long as you leave everything out on the basketball court, you can go into the locker room and feel good about yourself and that's important..............
Anybody who is a competitor knows this is what you want, this is what it's all about. As a competitor, this is the kind of situation you live for.
They do a lot of cutting, back screens and stuff like that. We weren't ready to handle the back screens and all the cuts. ... They are a well-coached team, and it shows.
We tried it different ways in the first half of the season and now we just have to do it the way Mo Cheeks wants it done every night.
We didn't take care of it. We just struggled handling the ball.
We knew we were going to be short-handed, being that Chris wasn't playing, and other guys stepped up and played big for us.
That's what it is all about, coming in and playing a game like it is your last. That's what we did. We fought on the defensive end, we fought trying to get rebounds, and we let the offense take care of itself.
I wasn't used to the attention, I wasn't used to having money, I wasn't used to being the main focus on an NBA team.