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【#喬瑟夫高登李維 用影片表白台灣😍】

快來看爆💥💥💥

喬瑟夫高登李維的 hitRECord 計畫
用如詩如畫的口白和影像介紹 #台灣
由於影片實在太吸睛
小編忍不住隨手英翻中 (先說小編不是大文豪，文辭不夠優美請包涵 🙇🏻‍♂️🙇🏻‍♀️
希望大家一起來看看這部 #迷戀在台灣
他對台灣的無限感懷
是否觸動你對這片土地滿滿的愛呢❓

#好萊塢巨星瘋台灣
#世界上一股良善的力量 ❤️

Lights, Camera, Action!
Hollywood heartthrob Joseph Gordon-Levitt just released the crowdsourced short film “Lost in Taiwan”, which all started with the sentence, "When I think of Taiwan, I think of ____." Fill in the blank for yourself in the comments section after checking out the video!

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《迷戀在台灣》

當我想到台灣時，我想到了 #家。

颱風雨和大蝸牛橫越河畔的自行車道。寺廟、香火和奶奶老舊綠色毛衣的氣味。騎著機車，微風輕拂我的臉頰。隔幾個路口就有超商的便利。

當我想到台灣時，我想到了 #民主。

這裡的每個人都參與政治。每個人都出來投票。我們珍惜得來不易的民主、自主和自由。

當我想到台灣時，我想到的是 #街頭小吃。

刨冰上的芒果、步行五分鐘就可到市場買份水餃。一邊啜飲著珍珠奶茶，一邊逛著攤販林立的街道。

當我想到台灣時，我想到 #被遺忘的故事。

遺失的語言。她的土地總是被外來強權統治，她的歷史一次又一次地改寫。當我年老時，她，還會在這裡嗎？

當我想到台灣時，我會想到 #大自然。

宏偉的山脈、令人驚艷的海洋。手拿著衝浪板走到烏石海灘。帶著燦爛陽光的笑容。

當我想到台灣時，我想到的是 #台灣人民的善良。

熱情、溫暖、尊重他人。我們對抗武漢肺炎的成果勝過大多數的國家。我們關心我們的鄰居。我們充滿熱情，不畏懼發表自己的意見。

最重要的是，我認為 #台灣就像是我自己的一部分。這是片自由意志的土地、充滿年輕思維的土地、擁抱人性光輝的土地。

這，是我稱之為「家」的所在。

《Lost in Taiwan》

When I think of Taiwan, I think of home.
Typhoon rains and large snails
crossing our bike paths by the river.
Temples and incenses.
The scent of my granny’s old green sweater.
The breeze tickling my cheek on a scooter.
The convenience of a family mart a few blocks away.

When I think of Taiwan, I think of democracy.
Everybody participates in politics here.
Everybody comes out to vote.
We treasure our hard-earned democracy, our freedom, our liberty.

When I think of Taiwan, I think of street food.
Mangoes on top of shaved ice.
A five minutes walk to the market for dumplings.
Sipping bubble milk tea from a straw as I walk through streets lined with vendors.

When I think of Taiwan, I think of forgotten stories.
Languages lost.
A land always ruled by foreign powers, her history changed time and time again.
Will it still be here when I grow old?

When I think of Taiwan, I think of nature.
Magnificent mountain chains.
The most amazing oceans.
Walking, surfboard in hand, to the beach at Wushi.
The sun in your smile.

When I think of Taiwan, I think of the goodness of its people.
We are welcoming, warm, respectful.
We fought COVID-19 better than most countries could.
We care for our neighbors.
We are passionate, unafraid to voice our opinions.

Most of all, I think of Taiwan as part of who I am.
A land of free will, a land of young mind, a land that embraces humanity.
A land that I call home.

What type of writer are you?⁣
⁣
That’s a question I asked myself more than 20 years ago when I first got started and there’s basically 3 choices...⁣
⁣
Choice 1: The Academic Writer⁣
⁣
This is the type of writer we learn to become at school.⁣
⁣
“Never start a sentence with ‘because’.”⁣
⁣
“Don’t forget the comma!”⁣
⁣
“Always write a complete thought.”⁣
⁣
Some of these writers have gone on to become very well-known authors.⁣
⁣
Some of them have made contributions to science, history, literature.⁣
⁣
Some have made it really big.⁣
⁣
But that’s not something I could do…⁣
⁣
And here’s why.⁣
⁣
The barrier of entry is pretty high. And you also usually have to get into a lot of student debt and write several papers that could take years before you become recognized.⁣
⁣
And that’s just something I wasn’t willing to do.⁣
⁣
Besides, I’m not even a native speaker of English.⁣
⁣
And my grammar sucks.⁣
⁣
But if you’re an A student, and you want to pursue a career as an academic writer - this may be the path for you.⁣
⁣
Choice 2: The Creative Writer⁣
⁣
When you say “I’m a writer”, this is what most people think of...⁣
⁣
Who wouldn’t want to be a stay-at-home writer that can get up whenever you want?⁣
⁣
The creative writer is the writer that writes fiction, that writes stories, and that entertains readers all over the world.⁣
⁣
These are the writers that become world-famous authors, like J.K. Rowlings or Stephen King.⁣
⁣
But for most writers, it’s not as dreamy as it sounds...⁣
⁣
No one tells you about all the months you have to fight off writer's block…⁣
⁣
Or about the bills that start taking over your desk space if you don’t go get a regular job...⁣
⁣
Or that your first manuscript is actually “supposed” to get rejected...⁣
⁣
You see what usually happens is this.⁣
⁣
1. You write the book.⁣
2. You wait a long time for it to get published (18 months).⁣
3. And then you wait another long period of who knows how long before you earn royalties.⁣
⁣
And unless you have a huge load of savings during that time, it’s game over...⁣
⁣
So either you have a lot of savings to keep you in the game, or you’re forced back into a 9 - 5 to pay off all the bills.⁣
⁣
Now I’m not saying you can’t do it. Many writers push through the hard times and become successful writers.⁣
⁣
I just hate the idea of working a 9 to 5 or waiting years to get a return on my time…⁣
⁣
So I didn’t opt in to being this kind writer either. And if you’re anything like me, neither would you...⁣
⁣
Choice 3: The Revenue-Based Writer⁣
⁣
Now these writers aren’t the best at English in the world. And they’re probably not the most creative either...⁣
⁣
But that’s okay. There’s a different advantage to being a Revenue-Based Writer.⁣
⁣
And that is they’re responsible for trillions of dollars of revenue every single year.⁣
⁣
Let me prove it to you.⁣
⁣
Think of any big names you can:⁣
⁣
Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Nike, Ikea... ⁣
⁣
How do you think these companies effectively communicate their message to millions and millions of people every single day?⁣
⁣
They need writers that can influence, persuade, and inspire people to buy their products and services - on a daily basis.⁣
⁣
And when they have those writers, they make more money. And when they make more money, guess what…⁣
⁣
They pay those writers more money.⁣
⁣
Now maybe you’re wondering.⁣
⁣
“Well what do these types of writers actually do?”⁣
⁣
Well here’s what they do, and here’s how to become one if that’s what you’re interested in...⁣
⁣
Imagine someone has a local electronics store and they get some people visiting their website...⁣
⁣
And their sales are okay, they’re making around $500-bucks a month online.⁣
⁣
Now, what if you rewrote it or tweaked a couple things to increase their monthly revenue from online orders to $1,000?⁣
⁣
Now they’re making 2X as much from the same website.⁣
⁣
You’ve just doubled their sales.⁣
⁣
Wouldn’t they be happy to pay you $100 for helping them make an extra $500 every month?⁣
⁣
And if you could make them $500 dollars more a month, do you think they’d really care about how good your grammar is?⁣
⁣
Or would they care more about how much money you’d make them?⁣
⁣
And if you could make them money, don't you think they'd want to pay you more to keep writing for them?⁣
⁣
Simple right? It is. ⁣
⁣
So it’s not like traditional writing where you have to slave away for 2 to 3 years before getting anything back for your work…⁣
⁣
As a Revenue-Based Writer, you can bring in the cash after just a few weeks of work - sometimes after just a few days.⁣
⁣
It’s great.⁣
⁣
But like all great things, there is a catch.⁣
⁣
And it’s why the average writer never gets into this kind of stuff.⁣
⁣
You do have to know which gigs to offer...⁣
⁣
Ever notice how some writers (who aren't very good writers) are making great money — while other better writers are barely scraping by or not making the income they deserve?⁣
⁣
What's the difference?⁣
⁣
Well, not all writing opportunities are created equal.⁣
⁣
If you want to know how to use a NEW type of writing that companies are willing to pay you large monthly checks for…⁣
⁣
I’ve put together a special on-demand training that goes into much more depth.⁣
⁣
💰If you want me to send you this free training, let me know by typing “writing” below.💰

What type of writer are you?⁣
⁣
That’s a question I asked myself more than 20 years ago when I first got started and there’s basically 3 choices...⁣
⁣
Choice 1: The Academic Writer⁣
⁣
This is the type of writer we learn to become at school.⁣
⁣
“Never start a sentence with ‘because’.”⁣
⁣
“Don’t forget the comma!”⁣
⁣
“Always write a complete thought.”⁣
⁣
Some of these writers have gone on to become very well-known authors.⁣
⁣
Some of them have made contributions to science, history, literature.⁣
⁣
Some have made it really big.⁣
⁣
But that’s not something I could do…⁣
⁣
And here’s why.⁣
⁣
The barrier of entry is pretty high. And you also usually have to get into a lot of student debt and write several papers that could take years before you become recognized.⁣
⁣
And that’s just something I wasn’t willing to do.⁣
⁣
Besides, I’m not even a native speaker of English.⁣
⁣
And my grammar sucks.⁣
⁣
But if you’re an A student, and you want to pursue a career as an academic writer - this may be the path for you.⁣
⁣
Choice 2: The Creative Writer⁣
⁣
When you say “I’m a writer”, this is what most people think of...⁣
⁣
Who wouldn’t want to be a stay-at-home writer that can get up whenever you want?⁣
⁣
The creative writer is the writer that writes fiction, that writes stories, and that entertains readers all over the world.⁣
⁣
These are the writers that become world-famous authors, like J.K. Rowlings or Stephen King.⁣
⁣
But for most writers, it’s not as dreamy as it sounds...⁣
⁣
No one tells you about all the months you have to fight off writer's block…⁣
⁣
Or about the bills that start taking over your desk space if you don’t go get a regular job...⁣
⁣
Or that your first manuscript is actually “supposed” to get rejected...⁣
⁣
You see what usually happens is this.⁣
⁣
1. You write the book.⁣
2. You wait a long time for it to get published (18 months).⁣
3. And then you wait another long period of who knows how long before you earn royalties.⁣
⁣
And unless you have a huge load of savings during that time, it’s game over...⁣
⁣
So either you have a lot of savings to keep you in the game, or you’re forced back into a 9 - 5 to pay off all the bills.⁣
⁣
Now I’m not saying you can’t do it. Many writers push through the hard times and become successful writers.⁣
⁣
I just hate the idea of working a 9 to 5 or waiting years to get a return on my time…⁣
⁣
So I didn’t opt in to being this kind writer either. And if you’re anything like me, neither would you...⁣
⁣
Choice 3: The Revenue-Based Writer⁣
⁣
Now these writers aren’t the best at English in the world. And they’re probably not the most creative either...⁣
⁣
But that’s okay. There’s a different advantage to being a Revenue-Based Writer.⁣
⁣
And that is they’re responsible for trillions of dollars of revenue every single year.⁣
⁣
Let me prove it to you.⁣
⁣
Think of any big names you can:⁣
⁣
Coca-Cola, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Nike, Ikea... ⁣
⁣
How do you think these companies effectively communicate their message to millions and millions of people every single day?⁣
⁣
They need writers that can influence, persuade, and inspire people to buy their products and services - on a daily basis.⁣
⁣
And when they have those writers, they make more money. And when they make more money, guess what…⁣
⁣
They pay those writers more money.⁣
⁣
Now maybe you’re wondering.⁣
⁣
“Well what do these types of writers actually do?”⁣
⁣
Well here’s what they do, and here’s how to become one if that’s what you’re interested in...⁣
⁣
Imagine someone has a local electronics store and they get some people visiting their website...⁣
⁣
And their sales are okay, they’re making around $500-bucks a month online.⁣
⁣
Now, what if you rewrote it or tweaked a couple things to increase their monthly revenue from online orders to $1,000?⁣
⁣
Now they’re making 2X as much from the same website.⁣
⁣
You’ve just doubled their sales.⁣
⁣
Wouldn’t they be happy to pay you $100 for helping them make an extra $500 every month?⁣
⁣
And if you could make them $500 dollars more a month, do you think they’d really care about how good your grammar is?⁣
⁣
Or would they care more about how much money you’d make them?⁣
⁣
And if you could make them money, don't you think they'd want to pay you more to keep writing for them?⁣
⁣
Simple right? It is. ⁣
⁣
So it’s not like traditional writing where you have to slave away for 2 to 3 years before getting anything back for your work…⁣
⁣
As a Revenue-Based Writer, you can bring in the cash after just a few weeks of work - sometimes after just a few days.⁣
⁣
It’s great.⁣
⁣
But like all great things, there is a catch.⁣
⁣
And it’s why the average writer never gets into this kind of stuff.⁣
⁣
You do have to know which gigs to offer...⁣
⁣
Ever notice how some writers (who aren't very good writers) are making great money — while other better writers are barely scraping by or not making the income they deserve?⁣
⁣
What's the difference?⁣
⁣
Well, not all writing opportunities are created equal.⁣
⁣
If you want to know how to use a NEW type of writing that companies are willing to pay you large monthly checks for…⁣
⁣
I’ve put together a special on-demand training that goes into much more depth.⁣
⁣
💰If you want me to send you this free training, let me know by typing “writing” below.💰

For those who were there at McDonough Gymnasium on August 4, 1994, few will forget the arrival of a 6-0 freshman guard who needed no introduction. The rumors of Allen Iverson's arrival to the Kenner Summer League were true, and by game's end, Iverson had scored 40 points. By the Sunday afternoon final, before an overflow crowd inside the gym and a crowd of those outside who could not get in, Iverson finished a combined 99 point effort in three days against some of the best collegiate talent in the city. This, of course, from a player that had not played organized basketball in over a year.

The Allen Iverson years had begun.

A brief profile can't do justice to tell the story of one of the greatest pure athletes ever to attend Georgetown, a man without peer in his talent over two years at the collegiate level. Just a year before his Kenner debut, few would have imagined Allen Iverson ever playing college basketball.

Iverson was not only a 31 point a game guard for Bethel HS, but a football player of tremendous skill. As a quarterback and defensive back his sophomore season, he produced nearly 1,600 yards offense and 13 INT's. By his junior year, he accounted for 2,204 yards, 21 touchdowns by rush or interception, and 14 touchdown passes. In a region which has produced NFL quarterbacks such as Michael Vick and Aaron Brooks, there are those who will still say "Bubbachuck" Iverson was better than both of them. Schools such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Duke, and three dozen other top programs across two sports were vying for perhaps the greatest two-sport star the Tidewater had ever produced.

When he led Bethel to the state title, someone asked what it was like to win the title. "I'm going to get one in basketball now," which he did. In late February, 1993, en route to the state title he had promised, Iverson was one of a large group of Bethel teammates at a Hampton bowling alley when a fight broke out between students from rival schools trading racial insults. Three people were hurt in the aftermath. Despite conflicting testimony from eyewitnesses and no clear evidence linking him to the crime, Iverson was one of four black students arrested.

Racial tensions were heightened when the prosecutors passed on a misdemeanor assault charge and charged Iverson with three counts of felony "maiming by mob", which carried a 20 year prison sentence. Despite video evidence which did not place Iverson in the crowd at the time of the fight, he was convicted in a racially charged case.

The 20 year sentence was later reduced to five, and Iverson was granted clemency by Gov. Douglas Wilder three months later, sending Iverson to a detention program at an alternative high school. (The original charges were thrown out by the Virginia court of appeals in 1995.)

In the spring of 1994, with Iverson still in detention, his mother approached John Thompson with a plea to help her son get to college and start a new chapter of his life. Though Thompson had passed on a number of troubled players in the past, he offered Iverson a scholarship in April of that season, contingent upon his completion of high school and his legal release, which was granted 48 hours before his Kenner debut.

By his debut in a Georgetown uniform in November 1994, Iverson had been the subject of intense national media attention. In the Hoyas' annual exhibition with Fort Hood, Iverson scored 36 points, five assists, and three steals in 23 minutes. Local columnists were in awe.

"Hang his number up in the rafters," wrote Tom Knott of the Washington Times. "He's better than most of the point guards in the NBA right now."

"I saw Lew Alcindor, Austin Carr, Moses Malone, Alonzo Mourning, Albert King, Ralph Sampson and Patrick Ewing play in high school," said the Post's Thomas Boswell. "Now, I have two memories on my first impression top shelf. The man who became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Allen Iverson."

Iverson opened the 1994-95 season in Memphis, TN in a 97-79 loss to defending NCAA champion Arkansas, scoring 19 points. Six days later, he scored 31 in a nationally televised game with DePaul, followed by 30 four days later against Providence, leading the team in scoring 22 times that season. His only game under double figures for the season (and his career) was a game where he played only ten minutes in a loss at Villanova, a game Georgetown coach John Thompson threatened to forfeit when a group of Villanova students paraded through the Spectrum in black and white-striped prison garb, with a sign comparing Iverson to O.J. Simpson.

"You accept certain ribbing, but there is a line," Thompson said after the game. "I can condone any Christian university sitting and watching that happen...If that happens [again], I going to walk. It that simple." Such fan behavior was not seen thereafter.

Later in the season, with President Bill Clinton in attendance, Iverson scored 26 as the Hoyas routed Villanova, 77-52. He followed it up with 21 to beat Syracuse, 28 versus St. John's, 31 in a Big East tournament opener with Miami (a game that saw Iverson outscore the entire Hurricane team at the end of the first half), and 27 versus Connecticut in the semis. In the NCAA regional, he scored 24 in the loss, but held Jeff McInnis to 1 for 8 shooting. By season's end, Allen Iverson had been named Big East Player of the Week nine times, Rookie of the Year, a second team all-conference selection, and honorable mention All-America recipient. Having led the Hoyas in points and steals en route to the school's first NCAA regional appearance since 1989, Iverson was already a star. By 1996, he would become nothing less than a sensation.

The leaser of a talented team that featured four future NBA stars, Allen Iverson dominated the 1995-96 season as no Hoya has done before or since. Adept at the crossover dribble that became his NBA trademark, lightning quick to the basket, and able to score on opponents at will, Iverson was largely unstoppable. Even more impressive was an effort to improve his shooting touch, for despite averaging 20.4 points as a freshman in 1994-95 (2nd all time for a Georgetown rookie), Iverson only shot 39 percent from the field, 23 percent from three, and 19 percent from three in Big East play. For his sophomore season, his field shooting increased to 48 percent, his three point mark to 36 percent. The results were striking.

In the pre-season NIT versus Temple, Iverson shot 50 percent for 24 points and a career high 10 rebounds. After a 23 point effort against Georgia Tech, he scored a career high 40 against Arizona, one of two 40+ point games that season. In Big East play, Iverson could ring up points with ease, such as the game where he scored 21 points in only 20 minutes against Rutgers.

In the final three months of the season, Iverson led the team in 21 of the team's 25 games: 40 against Seton Hall, 39 against St. John's, 34 against Providence. He scored 30 in a wild win over Memphis, and followed it up two nights later with 26 in an upset of #3 Connecticut. For the game, Iverson totalled 26 points, 8 steals, and 6 assists, including a soaring dunk past Ray Allen and the Huskies. It was the highest ranked team any Georgetown team had defeated since 1988. His best performance of the season might have been a 37 point, 8 rebound, and three steal effort against #6 ranked Villanova, playing only 27 minutes. The 106-68 win represents the sixth largest margin of victory and the largest margin ever by a Georgetown team against a top 10 opponent.

Iverson was capable of an off game; unfortunately, two came at particularly inopportune times for the Hoyas' hopes for a national title. Entering the 1996 Big East Final with a #1 seed on the line, Iverson shot 4 for 15 and the Hoyas lost by one, 76-75. As a result of the loss, Georgetown was seeded #2 behind top ranked UMass, and in the regional final between the two teams Iverson struggled with a 6 for 21 effort in the loss. For the season, though, his statistics were astonishing: his 926 points broke the then-record by 124 points. He set new single season marks in field goals, field goal attempts, three pointers, three point attempts, steals, minutes, and scoring average (25.0), the latter of which ranked 7th in the nation that season. The Big East's defensive player of the year, he was named a consensus All-American amidst numerous other awards.

If he could somehow have stayed four years, Iverson undoubtedly would have shredded the Georgetown record books. But whatever hopes existed for Iverson to resist the lure of the NBA were short lived, particularly with the news that one of his sisters had fallen ill. Seeing the opportunity to take care of his family's medical needs, Iverson announced for the NBA draft soon after the end of his sophomore season, becoming the first Georgetown player in the Thompson era to do so. The compact that had bound so many great Hoya players to a four year commitment--from Ewing to Williams, Mourning to Mutombo--had now been broken.

The first pick in the 1996 NBA draft, Iverson signed a $3.9 million contract with the Philadelphia 76ers and a ten year, $50 million deal with Reebok. His effort on the court is well known and respected, but for all the media portrayals of Iverson as the anti-hero, an icon of a "Hip Hop Nation" that ran counter to the NBA's carefully constructed marketing image, or as a symbol of all that is allegedly wrong in professional basketball, he remains remarkably well-grounded.

Married for six years and the father of two, Iverson is fiercely loyal to his teammates and to his childhood friends. He considered it an honor to play for the U.S. Olympic team in 2004 when other NBA stars passed on the offer, and maintains a number of charity events to benefit his local community. In comparison to his NBA career, his years at Georgetown were largely free of the intense media and personal scrutiny, providing at least two years where he could grow as a person as well as a basketball player.

His arrival and exit at Georgetown is still a source of debate in some circles, but his performance on the court is not. Allen Iverson found a home, even briefly, at the Hilltop, and remains one of its brightest stars. "In my heart, I know I'm a basketball player," Iverson said following his 2006 NBA trade, "being that I know I can play with the best of them."

From that first Kenner League game on 1994, no one has doubted it since.

For those who were there at McDonough Gymnasium on August 4, 1994, few will forget the arrival of a 6-0 freshman guard who needed no introduction. The rumors of Allen Iverson's arrival to the Kenner Summer League were true, and by game's end, Iverson had scored 40 points. By the Sunday afternoon final, before an overflow crowd inside the gym and a crowd of those outside who could not get in, Iverson finished a combined 99 point effort in three days against some of the best collegiate talent in the city. This, of course, from a player that had not played organized basketball in over a year.

The Allen Iverson years had begun.

A brief profile can't do justice to tell the story of one of the greatest pure athletes ever to attend Georgetown, a man without peer in his talent over two years at the collegiate level. Just a year before his Kenner debut, few would have imagined Allen Iverson ever playing college basketball.

Iverson was not only a 31 point a game guard for Bethel HS, but a football player of tremendous skill. As a quarterback and defensive back his sophomore season, he produced nearly 1,600 yards offense and 13 INT's. By his junior year, he accounted for 2,204 yards, 21 touchdowns by rush or interception, and 14 touchdown passes. In a region which has produced NFL quarterbacks such as Michael Vick and Aaron Brooks, there are those who will still say "Bubbachuck" Iverson was better than both of them. Schools such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Duke, and three dozen other top programs across two sports were vying for perhaps the greatest two-sport star the Tidewater had ever produced.

When he led Bethel to the state title, someone asked what it was like to win the title. "I'm going to get one in basketball now," which he did. In late February, 1993, en route to the state title he had promised, Iverson was one of a large group of Bethel teammates at a Hampton bowling alley when a fight broke out between students from rival schools trading racial insults. Three people were hurt in the aftermath. Despite conflicting testimony from eyewitnesses and no clear evidence linking him to the crime, Iverson was one of four black students arrested.

Racial tensions were heightened when the prosecutors passed on a misdemeanor assault charge and charged Iverson with three counts of felony "maiming by mob", which carried a 20 year prison sentence. Despite video evidence which did not place Iverson in the crowd at the time of the fight, he was convicted in a racially charged case.

The 20 year sentence was later reduced to five, and Iverson was granted clemency by Gov. Douglas Wilder three months later, sending Iverson to a detention program at an alternative high school. (The original charges were thrown out by the Virginia court of appeals in 1995.)

In the spring of 1994, with Iverson still in detention, his mother approached John Thompson with a plea to help her son get to college and start a new chapter of his life. Though Thompson had passed on a number of troubled players in the past, he offered Iverson a scholarship in April of that season, contingent upon his completion of high school and his legal release, which was granted 48 hours before his Kenner debut.

By his debut in a Georgetown uniform in November 1994, Iverson had been the subject of intense national media attention. In the Hoyas' annual exhibition with Fort Hood, Iverson scored 36 points, five assists, and three steals in 23 minutes. Local columnists were in awe.

"Hang his number up in the rafters," wrote Tom Knott of the Washington Times. "He's better than most of the point guards in the NBA right now."

"I saw Lew Alcindor, Austin Carr, Moses Malone, Alonzo Mourning, Albert King, Ralph Sampson and Patrick Ewing play in high school," said the Post's Thomas Boswell. "Now, I have two memories on my first impression top shelf. The man who became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Allen Iverson."

Iverson opened the 1994-95 season in Memphis, TN in a 97-79 loss to defending NCAA champion Arkansas, scoring 19 points. Six days later, he scored 31 in a nationally televised game with DePaul, followed by 30 four days later against Providence, leading the team in scoring 22 times that season. His only game under double figures for the season (and his career) was a game where he played only ten minutes in a loss at Villanova, a game Georgetown coach John Thompson threatened to forfeit when a group of Villanova students paraded through the Spectrum in black and white-striped prison garb, with a sign comparing Iverson to O.J. Simpson.

"You accept certain ribbing, but there is a line," Thompson said after the game. "I can condone any Christian university sitting and watching that happen...If that happens [again], I going to walk. It that simple." Such fan behavior was not seen thereafter.

Later in the season, with President Bill Clinton in attendance, Iverson scored 26 as the Hoyas routed Villanova, 77-52. He followed it up with 21 to beat Syracuse, 28 versus St. John's, 31 in a Big East tournament opener with Miami (a game that saw Iverson outscore the entire Hurricane team at the end of the first half), and 27 versus Connecticut in the semis. In the NCAA regional, he scored 24 in the loss, but held Jeff McInnis to 1 for 8 shooting. By season's end, Allen Iverson had been named Big East Player of the Week nine times, Rookie of the Year, a second team all-conference selection, and honorable mention All-America recipient. Having led the Hoyas in points and steals en route to the school's first NCAA regional appearance since 1989, Iverson was already a star. By 1996, he would become nothing less than a sensation.

The leaser of a talented team that featured four future NBA stars, Allen Iverson dominated the 1995-96 season as no Hoya has done before or since. Adept at the crossover dribble that became his NBA trademark, lightning quick to the basket, and able to score on opponents at will, Iverson was largely unstoppable. Even more impressive was an effort to improve his shooting touch, for despite averaging 20.4 points as a freshman in 1994-95 (2nd all time for a Georgetown rookie), Iverson only shot 39 percent from the field, 23 percent from three, and 19 percent from three in Big East play. For his sophomore season, his field shooting increased to 48 percent, his three point mark to 36 percent. The results were striking.

In the pre-season NIT versus Temple, Iverson shot 50 percent for 24 points and a career high 10 rebounds. After a 23 point effort against Georgia Tech, he scored a career high 40 against Arizona, one of two 40+ point games that season. In Big East play, Iverson could ring up points with ease, such as the game where he scored 21 points in only 20 minutes against Rutgers.

In the final three months of the season, Iverson led the team in 21 of the team's 25 games: 40 against Seton Hall, 39 against St. John's, 34 against Providence. He scored 30 in a wild win over Memphis, and followed it up two nights later with 26 in an upset of #3 Connecticut. For the game, Iverson totalled 26 points, 8 steals, and 6 assists, including a soaring dunk past Ray Allen and the Huskies. It was the highest ranked team any Georgetown team had defeated since 1988. His best performance of the season might have been a 37 point, 8 rebound, and three steal effort against #6 ranked Villanova, playing only 27 minutes. The 106-68 win represents the sixth largest margin of victory and the largest margin ever by a Georgetown team against a top 10 opponent.

Iverson was capable of an off game; unfortunately, two came at particularly inopportune times for the Hoyas' hopes for a national title. Entering the 1996 Big East Final with a #1 seed on the line, Iverson shot 4 for 15 and the Hoyas lost by one, 76-75. As a result of the loss, Georgetown was seeded #2 behind top ranked UMass, and in the regional final between the two teams Iverson struggled with a 6 for 21 effort in the loss. For the season, though, his statistics were astonishing: his 926 points broke the then-record by 124 points. He set new single season marks in field goals, field goal attempts, three pointers, three point attempts, steals, minutes, and scoring average (25.0), the latter of which ranked 7th in the nation that season. The Big East's defensive player of the year, he was named a consensus All-American amidst numerous other awards.

If he could somehow have stayed four years, Iverson undoubtedly would have shredded the Georgetown record books. But whatever hopes existed for Iverson to resist the lure of the NBA were short lived, particularly with the news that one of his sisters had fallen ill. Seeing the opportunity to take care of his family's medical needs, Iverson announced for the NBA draft soon after the end of his sophomore season, becoming the first Georgetown player in the Thompson era to do so. The compact that had bound so many great Hoya players to a four year commitment--from Ewing to Williams, Mourning to Mutombo--had now been broken.

The first pick in the 1996 NBA draft, Iverson signed a $3.9 million contract with the Philadelphia 76ers and a ten year, $50 million deal with Reebok. His effort on the court is well known and respected, but for all the media portrayals of Iverson as the anti-hero, an icon of a "Hip Hop Nation" that ran counter to the NBA's carefully constructed marketing image, or as a symbol of all that is allegedly wrong in professional basketball, he remains remarkably well-grounded.

Married for six years and the father of two, Iverson is fiercely loyal to his teammates and to his childhood friends. He considered it an honor to play for the U.S. Olympic team in 2004 when other NBA stars passed on the offer, and maintains a number of charity events to benefit his local community. In comparison to his NBA career, his years at Georgetown were largely free of the intense media and personal scrutiny, providing at least two years where he could grow as a person as well as a basketball player.

His arrival and exit at Georgetown is still a source of debate in some circles, but his performance on the court is not. Allen Iverson found a home, even briefly, at the Hilltop, and remains one of its brightest stars. "In my heart, I know I'm a basketball player," Iverson said following his 2006 NBA trade, "being that I know I can play with the best of them."

From that first Kenner League game on 1994, no one has doubted it since.

For those who were there at McDonough Gymnasium on August 4, 1994, few will forget the arrival of a 6-0 freshman guard who needed no introduction. The rumors of Allen Iverson's arrival to the Kenner Summer League were true, and by game's end, Iverson had scored 40 points. By the Sunday afternoon final, before an overflow crowd inside the gym and a crowd of those outside who could not get in, Iverson finished a combined 99 point effort in three days against some of the best collegiate talent in the city. This, of course, from a player that had not played organized basketball in over a year. The Allen Iverson years had begun. A brief profile can't do justice to tell the story of one of the greatest pure athletes ever to attend Georgetown, a man without peer in his talent over two years at the collegiate level. Just a year before his Kenner debut, few would have imagined Allen Iverson ever playing college basketball. Iverson was not only a 31 point a game guard for Bethel HS, but a football player of tremendous skill. As a quarterback and defensive back his sophomore season, he produced nearly 1,600 yards offense and 13 INT's. By his junior year, he accounted for 2,204 yards, 21 touchdowns by rush or interception, and 14 touchdown passes. In a region which has produced NFL quarterbacks such as Michael Vick and Aaron Brooks, there are those who will still say "Bubbachuck" Iverson was better than both of them. Schools such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Duke, and three dozen other top programs across two sports were vying for perhaps the greatest two-sport star the Tidewater had ever produced. When he led Bethel to the state title, someone asked what it was like to win the title. "I'm going to get one in basketball now," which he did. In late February, 1993, en route to the state title he had promised, Iverson was one of a large group of Bethel teammates at a Hampton bowling alley when a fight broke out between students from rival schools trading racial insults. Three people were hurt in the aftermath. Despite conflicting testimony from eyewitnesses and no clear evidence linking him to the crime, Iverson was one of four black students arrested. Racial tensions were heightened when the prosecutors passed on a misdemeanor assault charge and charged Iverson with three counts of felony "maiming by mob", which carried a 20 year prison sentence. Despite video evidence which did not place Iverson in the crowd at the time of the fight, he was convicted in a racially charged case. The 20 year sentence was later reduced to five, and Iverson was granted clemency by Gov. Douglas Wilder three months later, sending Iverson to a detention program at an alternative high school. (The original charges were thrown out by the Virginia court of appeals in 1995.) In the spring of 1994, with Iverson still in detention, his mother approached John Thompson with a plea to help her son get to college and start a new chapter of his life. Though Thompson had passed on a number of troubled players in the past, he offered Iverson a scholarship in April of that season, contingent upon his completion of high school and his legal release, which was granted 48 hours before his Kenner debut. By his debut in a Georgetown uniform in November 1994, Iverson had been the subject of intense national media attention. In the Hoyas' annual exhibition with Fort Hood, Iverson scored 36 points, five assists, and three steals in 23 minutes. Local columnists were in awe. "Hang his number up in the rafters," wrote Tom Knott of the Washington Times. "He's better than most of the point guards in the NBA right now." Allen Iverson Kobe Bryant Tracy Mcgrady Vince Carter Dwyane Wade Shaq Jermaine O'Neal Gilbert Arenas Tim Duncan Kevin Garnett Yao Ming Chris Bosh Steve Nash Lebron James Carmelo Anthony Chris Webber Dennis Rodman Steve Francis Stephon Marbury Shawn Marion Amare Stoudemire Michael Jordan Scottie Pippen Charles Barkley Larry Bird Magic Johnson Karl Malone John Stockton Boston Celtics New Jersey Nets New York Knicks Philadelphia 76ers Toronto Raptors Chicago Bulls Cleveland Cavaliers Detroit Pistons Indiana Pacers Milwaukee Bucks Atlanta Hawks Charlotte Bobcats Miami Heat Orlando Magic Washington Wizards Dallas Mavericks Houston Rockets Memphis Grizzlies NO/Okla. City Hornets San Antonio Spurs Denver Nuggets Minnesota Timberwolves Portland Trail Blazers Seattle SuperSonics Utah Jazz Golden State Warriors Los Angeles Clippers Los Angeles Lakers Phoenix Suns Sacramento Kings