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Westbrook打破大O懸掛47年的181次大三元紀錄，正式成為聯盟不可思議的締造者，打破這原本被視為不可能攀越的高牆。

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我真的記得在2012年有人問我什麼紀錄是最難打破時，我印象很深刻，我所回答Oscar Robertson的大三元紀錄就是其中一個最難以被攀越的高牆。

因為當時Jason Kidd是離大O最接近的全能機器，有著驚人的107場紀錄，但仍舊與181這數字有著巨大的差距，且2012年Kidd生涯已經到尾聲，拚到40歲仍是遙不可及，說明了這項紀錄有多麼難以超越。

所以十年前談到難以超越的紀錄，Oscar Robertson的181次大三元絕對是許多老球迷心中名列前茅的(還有John Stockton的助攻與抄截)。

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因此Westbrook能夠打破這紀錄真的很不可思議，雖然隨著聯盟進攻節奏越來越快，快節奏的打法有可能讓籃板與助攻的累積變得更快，但在 #這個世代也就Westbrook能夠如此瘋狂。

🏀我自己不能接受把球員精采的表現說是用刷的，真的不要把事情想得那麼簡單，這不是打電動，且我們也只是在用【#上帝視角】在簡化比賽，講得很容易但實際打就知道有多難。

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💪畢竟自己以前常打籃球，深深了解打全場要拚搶籃板、要帶球衝鋒陷陣，還要在亂軍中尋找隊友有多難，且這一切的基礎都得建構在 #體力與精神面上，而Westbrook最讓我感到難以置信的就是他似乎有著無窮的能量與鬥志。

光這一點，你說他用刷的，就是對 #一名努力打球的球員很不尊重，縱使他可能有短版，有時會腦衝，中距離不穩，但面對比賽全力以赴的態度他是無話可講，且不要把球員太過完美化了，不是每個人都能像LBJ、KD有那種超級天賦，就是積極去尋找如何讓自己主宰力與影響力最大化。

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Westbrook今年的表現我認為超越了他在雷霆MVP的賽季。

不得不說今年傳球視野與出球點真的很棒，能在巫師超越大O的紀錄我覺得難能可貴，因為非得承認巫師扣掉Beal後，#整體天賦與戰力放眼聯盟應該是倒數的。

就拿今天的老鷹來說，老鷹每個位置的先發球員與好幾位板凳，放到巫師都會成為絕對主力，但巫師每個球員在下半季就硬是打出態度和反擊，在Westbrook與Beal的帶動下，都把 #潛力和價值給激發出來。

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今天雖然很遺憾又是1分飲恨吞敗，然而在沒有Beal的情況下，Westbrook與 #巫師此戰的韌性又繼續讓我看了很感動....

🔥原本以為可能要大比分落後輸球，但第四節Westbrook與每個人都沒放棄。強勢的拉出一波21-3的攻勢，明明防守資源就很差，不過每個人拚得跟什麼一樣。

且Westbrook非常信任自己隊友，看到Davis Bertans手感熱，就一直努力做球給他，也一直替Lopez、八村壘在尋找機會，光第四節就繳出 #11分10助攻0失誤的完美雙十表現(全場28分13籃板21助攻3失誤)，巫師能掀起大反攻，這就是Westbrook在這支球隊的領袖魅力。

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只可惜最後一球Westbrook沒有成功扮演英雄，當搶到籃板那一刻，Scott Brooks教練就在場邊叫Westbrook直接推進打到底了，遺憾勝利女神沒站在他們這邊，又是一場一分惜敗。

過去巫師的三場輸球，#加起來總計只輸三分，這真的就是球隊不肯服輸言敗的瘋狂韌性表現💪。

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恭喜Westbrook了，且182場的大三元最多紀錄仍會持續向前累積推進，或許二十年後，當我不太看NBA時，未來的球迷有可能會稱他為上古神龜。

🙏我真的很榮幸 #能愛龜龜這麼多年，他也是現在我看球熱情來源之一，也不知他能在衝幾年，我自己絕對會好好珍惜他能每晚這樣燃燒自我，無懼流言蜚語的時候。

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額外也要講一下，希望Beal傷勢無礙，#巫師不能沒有他的進攻火力，今年Beal也是我覺得他打球最有態度與激情的一個賽季，希望他能與Westbrook一起創造好的回憶，哪怕首輪遊又如何？對球迷來講這都 #是很美好的籃球記憶。

且也要抨擊一下Kent Bazemore。

挺自己球隊大哥Stephen Curry很好，但無須 #為此挺而貶低他人，即使我喜歡Curry也希望他拿得分王，可是看到Bazemore說這屁話真的不太爽：

＂29分鐘得到49分(指Curry)＂
＂這真太不可思議了＂
＂有些球員要傷了腳筋才勉強跟得上(指Beal)＂

講這種話是有多麼不尊重Beal在場上的表現！真的別給Curry招黑了。

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🏀真的 #沒必要用貶低別人去捧別人，即使像我過去十年這麼摯愛Kobe，如此宣揚Kobe對我的影響，但我敢跟大家講，#我從來沒有貶低過任何一名球員來抬高或捧Kobe。

🏀對我而言在討論籃球上，我想 #得先懂得尊重人(不管球員或球迷)，我認為這是基本的門檻，不能說一定能做得完美，但要盡可能的做到，希望大家共勉之。

也希望巫師在Beal缺陣下要挺住！能守住拚季後賽的機會。

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最後也為賽爾提克球迷默哀，最不想看到球員受傷，而綠軍在這個時刻失去了JB，無疑是雪上加霜。

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原本沒想寫，但Ja Morant這樣的表現怎能不表揚一下！這晚他傾盡所有打出不可思議的４７分表現。

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就不講太多，因為第四節有事情要用沒什麼看，就光前三節灰熊這支年輕球隊展現的韌性實在太精采，尤其Ja Morant，他整場扛著隊伍在衝，不停瘋狂挑戰Rudy Gobert，光這一點很難不讓人熱血。

我自己覺得這場哨聲對灰熊比較不友善，首節Jonas Valanciunas與
Dillon Brooks就陷入犯規麻煩被迫下場，上半場沒他拚個22分比賽早就花掉。

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第三節原以為有經驗的爵士會掌控局勢持續壓著這群年輕人，但Ja Morant與Dillon Brooks雙後衛就真的帶著球隊卯足勁的追分起來，搭配Jonas Valanciunas的擋拆與禁區單打，灰熊那段打得真好。

Morant的進攻真的很有侵略性且裡外都行，其實四月底到賽季結束他的進攻表現浮動挺大的，我認為他附加賽對勇士那一戰是打出自信找回感覺。

很可惜第三節末Morant傳給Melton的底線大空檔三分沒進，如果進了就追平，但下個回合Jordan Clarkson馬上用經驗要了三顆罰球，這一來一往我認為挺關鍵的。

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因為第四節在忙沒啥看，就不多講，但整場結束Ja Morant繳出一張47分4籃板7助攻的驚人成績單，這可是對上防守一流的猶他爵士寫下，我覺得非常了不起。

🏀這不僅創下灰熊季後賽隊史最高分，同時Morant也成為NBA歷史上第四年輕可以在季後賽繳出40分+的年輕人，另外三人分別是Magic Johnson、LeBron James與Luka Doncic，我想Morant已經贏得爵士的尊重。

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👍同時也讓更多球迷認識他打球多迷人，不僅勁爆且也具備技術性面，是相當賞心悅目的且有熱血元素的球員。

感覺猶他爵士與灰熊這系列戰會比想像中更精采好看，灰熊過去兩場表現我相信也能讓勇士迷服氣了。

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Tatum狂轟50分帶領綠軍卡進東區第七！他們將出戰布魯克林籃網。

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很遺憾，原本有點期待Westbrook能在季後賽首輪對上自己大哥Kevin Durant與三弟的James Harden，甚至還有大哥大Jeff Green，讓當初雷霆兄弟們能齊聚在一起。

這場無疑是巫師近期打得最差的比賽，除了外線完全熄火外，防守端也被塞爾提克給摧毀，其中Jayson Tatum一個人就轟下50分，光他個人火力就足以讓巫師陷入困境，且Walker #第三節的三分連轟 也是綠軍致勝關鍵。

這個賽季看下來，巫師確實很怕Tatum這類天賦極高的進攻搖擺人，因為 #球隊根本沒有什麼防守資源能對位他，八村壘已經是體格與運動性最接近的，但很明顯仍有落差性，那就更別講八村壘早早就陷入犯規麻煩後，個子小一號的Bradley Beal，甚至常常錯位到的Raul Neto都根本擋不住手感發燙的Tatum，Bertans當然也不用講。

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這場巫師除了自己進攻手感不好外，整個節奏也因為哨聲的關係被影響，不得不說今天綠軍這一戰在這方面比較有優勢，這也讓巫師更陷入谷底，#整體節奏打得很亂。

而Westbrook與Beal今晚都表現都不好，兩人進攻都有失水準，一些追分期都無法有效打進球，做為 #主將就得扛起敗戰責任，接下來必須得迅速檢討與調整好狀態，因為很快就要再面對溜馬(第二條命)，做本賽季例行賽的最後一搏，贏球進季後賽，輸球就放暑假。

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🔥亂刀流的Ish Smith這場持續打得還不錯(17分8籃板3助攻)，如果沒有他成功打亂戰爛仗的表現，上半場可能就先被綠軍掌控局勢。這種雙面刃型的球員的確在一些重要比賽就是得賭他一把，希望對上溜馬時Smith還能保持近期水準。

而Scott Brooks教練在調度上我覺得還是有太多討論空間。對上綠軍Raul Neto真的相當劣勢，且Alex Len的時間應該可以提早多給Daniel Gafford來發揮，因為Len的移動與爆發力很難去給綠軍側翼帶來威脅，甚至換有經驗的Robin Lopez都會比較好。

至於Davis Bertans投不進也真的沒辦法，但他還是 #球隊少有的外線牽制，倒是今天八村壘背負太多犯規，也讓調度與防線變得困難，可惜了，Chandler Hutchison還是太嫩，巫師可用之兵真的不夠。

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👍賽爾提克方面Tatum在球隊最低迷的情況下挺身而出，非得給予肯定，畢竟近期綠軍真的是士氣很糟，少了Jaylen Brown打擊太大了，但 #今晚Tatum一人當兩人用，把JB的份也都扛起了！

接下來他們要挑戰籃網三巨頭，以他們的殘陣來講這真的是大挑戰，塞爾提克如果想贏，我認為 #要打得更為團隊一點，球隊還是過多單打，且想拚巨星球，本季哪支球隊尬得贏籃網？不可能整個系列戰都期望Tatum能夠這麼勢不可擋。

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🏀至於巫師接下來能不能打贏溜馬真的很難講，Beal感覺仍被傷勢影響，Westbrook也讓人覺得他很疲憊，不過就對手配置上相對可能會比塞爾提克好對付，畢竟Tatum一不講理就真的沒轍，且今年例行賽 #巫師橫掃溜馬(3勝0敗)，就 #私心來講真的希望巫師能闖進季後賽。

🏀而明天就是湖人對勇士的大戲，老實講這兩支球隊誰輸都會讓我心情不好，#私心的話也是希望兩支最後都能進，湖人不用講，勇士今年也是與巫師一樣在逆境求生的球隊，希望他們也能不功虧一簣，只是也欣賞的馬刺我只能含淚了。

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大家最近沒事也可以一起參加這季後賽預測的活動(截止日期為5/19日)，我覺得這活動很有趣，重點送的東西也很好，要參加的方式也很簡單。

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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