OB Daz and OB Aidan react to Allen Iverson and how good he actually was. Support us on Patreon: / officeblokedaz Instagram: officeblokedaz Link to original video: • How Good Was Allen Ive...
This video somehow completely undersold his cultural impact. Even 20 years later, the culture of the modern NBA has predominately been shaped upon the foundation of Allen Iverson.
The craziest thing about AI, at least to me, is that he was arguably better at football than basketball. He was a higher rated QB prospect than Peyton Manning in 94, and was also a standout DB and kick returner. His basketball coach in college wouldn't let him play football, figuring he'd probably get hurt and lose his best player. It's insane
That ‘01 Lakers team in the playoffs were unstoppable! Kobe throughout the first 3 series, and Shaq to top it off with a dominant finals showing. Iverson was the sole loss the Lakers faced that entire postseason!
I'll always be sad the Bucks lost that game 7 to the Sixers, but at least they didn't get steamrolled by the Lakers in the finals, which was the fate of any team that went up against them. So silver lining I guess.
The amount of hate he got looking back on it is completely crazy. People literally criticized him for having tattoos. The Wizards had a home game program with Iverson on the cover for their game against Philly and they removed all of his tattoos digitally.
I was an editor/videographer/writer for Comcast Sportsnet, Philadelphia (now NBC Sports Philadelphia) from 1998-2009. It's the regional sports network for the Philadelphia region, founded by Ed Snider who brought the NHL to Philadelphia in 1967 with the Flyers. He eventually purchased the Sixers. The newsroom and studios are in what is now the Wells Fargo Center. I was there in the press conference when Iverson had his "We're talking about practice" moment. He also confronted the late Phil Jasner, Sixers beat writer for the Philadelphia Daily News (Who Iverson gave a beautiful eulogy when Jazz passed away) with this nugget, "You think if I worked out more, and got all swole like Arnold, Phillip, that I might win more MVPs? Well, I won the MVP all skin and bones!" Not only did Iverson show up late to practice, but he'd usually bring lunch with him, which was usually Taco Bell. This video really glosses over what a shit show the Iverson/Larry Brown feud really was. It was as bad as the Bobby Clarke/Eric Lindros feud on the Flyers side of things. Also, while the world knows Iverson as "A.I." his nickname growing up is one for the ages: Bubba Chuck.
My favorite player. I was fortunate enough for him to be the star player on my hometown team, so I got to see him play all the time and put up 50 points in person.
Lifelong Sixers fan here. i was 3 years old the last time they won a championship. That game 1 against the Lakers has been the franchise's greatest moment since 1983.
listen to iguodala on Carmelo’s podcast. The 76ers didn’t have a their own practice facility. Other teams in the league did but they had to rent out a space for a couple hours. So even if iverson wanted to practice later he couldn’t. Iverson didn’t practice as much as he should but the organization didn’t give every resource they could. They made its seem like iverson was professional for one year and seee that’s why we went to the finals lmao. Both iversons ego and the 76ers blaming iversons for their own bad picks and resources provided still didn’t stop a legendary moment in basketball history.
AI is hands down the most influential player culturally in NBA history, possibly American sports history. His impact is still very much felt today. AI was the truth and a true innovator of the game on and off the court, in so many different ways. A lot of players, I mean a lot of players, play they do today because of Iverson.
What people don't understand is the 76ers didn't have their own gym. They rented a gym to practice. They scheduled 2-3 hours for practice and that's all the access they had to a practice gym.
As crazy as it sounds he might've been at Football than Basketball. He was a great QB in Highschool, but at the time the old guard in the NFL were big on prototypical big and tall pocket passers. His slight frame, and the out of pocket scrambling scared teams. Nowadays everyone is looking for a playmaker at QB than can do it in or out of the pocket, and prototypical size isn't as big of a deal. AI was truly the man.
AI was a tremendous talent. It was amazing to watch a normal-sized human dominate the NBA. Injuries shortened his hall-of-fame career, but it was wonderful while it lasted.
barely 6 feet tall, 160165 pounds at most yet played tougher than 99% of NBA players. dude had to wrap his entire body in ice and wear hockey pants after most games. Love Iverson
Kobe once said that if Iverson was 6foot 5 then he'd be unstoppable. i just wish Iverson put in half the off court work that Kobe did. dude would be known as a top 5 talent of all time
To be fair to iverson he led the league in minutes and injuries for like 5 years in a row and that's why he didn't practice. He was a small guy taking a beating every game because nobody else was a good scorer and it was him or nothing. If he practiced he wouldn't have been as effective in games
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AI is one of those guys, GAME-CHANGERS! players thats so big, they change the game itself! he changed how the game was played! he was one of the biggest basketball stars of all time! hes even bigger than kobe or shaq back then .. kobe got bigger late 2000s, AI earlier! ..
It's funny how he's become more popular now than when he played. He was a good player, but not as iconic as people over the last few years have made him out to be.
This isn't true at all. People can argue how good he was since he was often inefficient, his teams didn't always win, and his prime was short, but no one can dispute how iconic and popular he was in the early 00's. He was incredibly popular at the time. I'd also argue he's the most influential player of the 21st century culturally.
@@coo55555 He's right. Iverson was good, but not as good as a lot of people are making him out to be. He was a really good player, but that's it. He's not this legendary iconic player and he's definitely not the most influential player of the 21st century 🤣🤣🤣 Iverson falls into the same category as guys like Dwight Howard, Paul Pierce, and Jason Kidd. All really good players, but not icons.
I noticed that too. After he retired he kind of faded away, like most players do after they retire. Then about 3 years ago just out of the blue people started talking about him like he's one of the greats up there with Jordan and Kobe. He was good but not great.
NO PLAYER IN THE NBA TODAY WILL PLAY A HIP INJURY! OR ANY INJURY! thats the difference about the old era, the difference in mindset truly makes a huge difference! NBA today is boring not bcoz the game is not good! actually NBA today is much stronger, players are all very good players .. BUT THE MINDSET OF THE PLAYERS IS DIFFERENT! THEIR ARE NOT KILLERS NOWADAYS! 2000s superstar SG are all killers😅 AI, kobe, VC, Tmac, allen ... KILLERS ... they got that MJ psychopath DNA😅😂😂 2000s basketball for me is the PEAK OF BASKETBALL ... the physicality of the 90s + modern basketball..
AI was the best era of basketball in Philly during my lifetime. This video was okay but that guy left out the whole Kobe feeling snubbed by his hometown (Philly), the trade & the tiny statue that the new awful Sixers owners got.
You guys get bad information In these videos and that practice clip is actually old click bait his friend had died so he went to the hospital and they where asking him about missing practice …..
I love that you guys are finally reacting to AI, but the source video was terrible. Hope you guys are able to come across a better video and react to it some time.
