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...defenses key on Iverson in much the same way they focused on Michael Jordan. Iverson doesn't have the luxury of passing off to Scottie Pippen, one reason an NBA championship might not be in the Philadelphia 76ers immediate future. But he still seems to score at will, despite his relative puniness (the 76ers generously list him at 6 ft., 165 lbs.) After Iverson torched the Lakers for 48 points in the first game of this year's NBA finals, dealing L.A. their only playoff loss, Laker Robert Horry wondered aloud just how anyone was supposed to defend the little...
...months in prison after a teenage brawl in a bowling alley (the conviction was later reversed due to insufficient evidence). His first few years in the league, he was openly insubordinate and in poor condition. But he's come around. This year Iverson forged a genuine bond with the 76ers brilliant, exacting coach Larry Brown and decided to become a team leader, a role he used to think was corny. He has also publicly expressed a desire to overcome what he's described as an inbuilt mistrust of authority...
...76ers will then win the next four games, taking the series in six. Shaq will attempt infanticide but will ultimately fail when threatened by Kobe’s basketball-playing Sicilian connections. Despite Kobe’s 47 points-per-game scoring average in the Finals, he will be traded back to the Charlotte Hornets (the team that drafted him) for Derrick Coleman...
...Philadelphia 76ers star guard and hopeful hip-hop artist ALLEN IVERSON leads the league in steals per game, but it seems he had some Sixers competition. Last week it was revealed that John Croce, the 76ers' strength-and-conditioning coach and younger brother of team co-owner Pat Croce, had resigned from the team in January after a locker-room videotape showed him executing a dunk in Iverson's pants pockets for spare cash. (Iverson was not in the pants at the time.) Video cameras had been installed after players complained of missing cash. "I felt sick, physically sick," said...
...like Allen Iverson to pass the ball on occasion. He's a point guard who averages under five assists per game. The Philadelphia 76ers guard needs to point more at his teammates and less at the basket...