nike just do it的八卦，PINTEREST、DCARD和Yahoo名人娛樂都在討論

9月5號是我受洗八週年，但最近實在太忙，遲了三天才寫這一篇。
那天剛好是Nike的Just Do It Day，回想這八年我的經歷，很多時候在未知里，我都真的只能just do it. 但信心就是這樣練成的。每次當我再沒有信心，只要我願意踏出一步，上帝都一次次讓我看到自己Just Do It後帶來的成長與收穫。我慢慢發現其實結果的成與敗並不是最重要，因為怎麼樣都讓我賺了歷練。
我覺得每個人都是一個行走的見證。我希望我的見證也可以鼓勵到大家：Just do it, do your best, God will do the rest!

［Just Do it］（六之二）

「光復香港。時代革命」八個字，在首宗國安法審訊中佔了重要席位。八個字的意思是甚麼，誰人可以作解讀？控方早前傳召了專家證人嶺大歷史系教授劉智鵬；今日到辯方專家證人之一的港大政治與公共行政學系教授李詠怡作供。專家證人報告乃是她和中大新傳學院院長李立峯一起撰寫，然而今天只是由李詠怡作供。

李詠怡這一整天的作供，涉及了社會科學不同範疇，有量化統計方法、符號學、文化身份的建構、語言學。但早上，竟然來了一節關於中國歷史的討論，還要是以英語進行。

「李教授，你懂得中國歷史嗎？」辯方大狀劉偉聰，輕輕問到。

和早前劉智鵬作供不同，今天整天審訊，以英語為主，翻譯員只需照顧在犯人欄裡的被告唐英傑。雖然唐戴了耳機，但翻譯先生坐在唐旁邊，兩人只隔了一度欄。

身型瘦削，長髮及肩，穿黑色軟質西裝外套和上衣，下身穿灰色西褲，腳踏圓頭皮鞋，臉容沒化粧，說話嚴肅的李詠怡教授，用英語說着：「我在香港出生及教育，本科也在香港修讀。我在讀書時有修中國歷史。」

劉大狀穿衣講究，條子西褲配了顏色圖案袜子尖頭皮鞋。上庭時，脫下條子西裝外套，套上白色大狀領子，外披黑色大律師袍。銀白色假髮下，他那長及頸項的頭髮向外翹，說英語時，口部張開得特大。

他的手部動作很多，食指和中指之間夾着一支原子筆，當他請李教授慢下來時，會把右手掌竪起，開始新提問時，會用食指指着專家證人李教授方向，靜下來時雙手疊在腰間，緊張起來時上身向前傾，瞪起眼。

劉大狀的身體語言多樣，像個樂團的指揮家。

這天，劉大狀用廣東話朗讀古籍，又有一番古代文人雅士風韻。他從英式紳士風，轉變成古代書生腔口，在高院一庭朗讀着：「《元史：陳祖仁傳》裡，自古人君，不幸遇艱虞多難之時，孰不欲奮發有為，成不世之功，以光復祖宗之業。」快慢起伏有致，像朗誦表演。

劉大狀解釋，陳祖仁乃是元順帝之advisor，因為元順帝要修建皇宮而花費了金錢，陳勸諫皇上。

劉大狀追問，這句中，「光復」二字有沒有推翻政權之意思？李教授回應：「沒有，因為他是皇帝，他不會想推翻自己的皇朝。」此時，坐在律師後的控方專家劉智鵬教授，一度仰頭思考。

劉智鵬早前作供，以歷史脈絡分析八字意思，認為「光時」口號有推翻政權意思；今日辯方專家證人作供，三位法官發問的次數，顯然比早前劉教授作供時更頻密。

劉大狀問，英文Liberate Hong Kong (光復香港之英文翻譯)句子之中， “liberate”意思為何。李詠怡教授指，和中文「光復」意思有差異，「只能抽象地解釋有些事物被控制了，被限制了，希望從控制和限制中重獲自由。」此時，控方證人劉智鵬低頭與旁人細語。

至於「革命」意思又如何？李詠怡教授指，有三個意思，第一，改變國家管治和政治體制，有可能使用暴力；第二，人們做事方式出現重大改變，例如「科技革命」，「科學革命」；第三，天體運轉。顯然，第三個意思被排除。

而李教授認為，考慮到「光復香港」的使用，和2012-2018年頻繁出現的「光復行動」有關，「光復」這詞應放在這些活動脈絡裡理解。

而李詠怡指出，「光復行動」並非旨在推翻政府或政權；而是人們因為社區及日常生活不開心，被內地遊客或水貨客滋擾，想處理關於社區問題，是關於公共空間秩序的恢復。

劉大狀追問，「內地遊客和香港人是不是不同的族群 (ethnic group)？」

李詠怡教授解釋，在社會學有謂「社會建構的身份」(social construction of identity).她指出，有人或許會以血緣來理解族群，但社會學亦會看人們主觀如何把自己定義。

劉大狀進一步問：「一個人可不可以屬於多於一個族群？」

李教授說：「可以」。

劉拖慢了節奏，咬字清晰問到：「當一個族群厭惡另一個族群，是否等於要推翻政權？」

李詠怡教授乾脆地答：「不是。」

午飯後，眾人飯氣攻心，昏昏欲睡，幾名押送被告唐英傑的懲教職員坐得有點歪，反而還押一年的唐英傑，穿起藍色西裝，深色襯衣，始終翻閱着律師給他的厚厚文件。

李詠怡教授指出，她理解「時代革命」，要回到梁天琦於2016年的立法會造勢晚會錄影片段，梁天琦曾解說，他先是想「世代革命」，但後來改為「時代革命」，因為認為不應以「世代」差異作為政治主張。

李教授認為，當時梁天琦提出的「光復香港。時代革命」，以她的理解為：「恢復一個已失去的舊秩序，團結喜愛自由的人，為這個重要歷史時刻帶來改變。」

李詠怡教授和其研究伙伴以數據分析過連登討論區的帖子，發現在反修例運動期間，每天有高達4400帖子提及過「光復香港」或「時代革命」。而這個口號在反修例運動中，於2019年7月21日開始被示威者使用，其後使用次數上升。

她分析到，口號自7.21被廣泛使用，原因有兩個：第一，在2019年7月有出現過「光復屯門」「光復上水」等示威活動，「光復」字眼在示威者間再次出現。第二，元朗發生7.21襲擊事件，「此事令公眾感到憤怒，人們需要一些新的東西去表達他們的憤懣。」李詠怡教授解說道。

李教授再指出，反修例運動有一些特色，就是「高度去中心化」，而且「沒有清晰領袖人物」。在此背景下，她和團隊曾訪問40個示威參與者，作焦點小組討論，結果發現，對於口號的理解，「不同人有不同意思。」

較特別的是，在數據分析下，「光復香港」或「時代革命」均與「香港獨立」在數據上沒有重要關聯。對比之下，「五大訴求」和「香港獨立」的關聯，和「光時」與「港獨」口號一樣，兩者關聯不強：「而我們知道，五大訴求與香港獨立，並沒有關係。」

此時，李詠怡教授把討論帶往符號學的層次。「人們會主動為符號添加意義，影像或符號像錨，人們會把自己的感受及假設投射在上面。而口號本質上是含糊不清，懷有多種意義，因為口號的設定就是要曖昧、模稜兩可，具開放性，好讓你能添加意義進去。」

此時，法官杜麗冰舉了一個生活化的例子：「就好像運動品牌Nike，它那句口號『Just Do it!』的意思，在不同情況使用，也會有不同的意思。」

而李詠怡教授不認同控方證人嶺大歷史系教授劉智鵬的演釋，「劉教授把古典中國文本，近乎機械式地用作解讀口號，是從脈絡中抽空了。」

李詠怡教授再進一步指出，早前在法庭播放了梁天琦造勢晚會片段，她發現，控方呈上的文件中，連梁天琦說的話都抄寫出錯了，而這個錯，正好顯示抄寫者對文字意義的不理解。

梁天琦曾在晚會上說過：「選票就係子彈，這句是Malcolm X講，我地冇槍冇炮，手上選票就是政治版圖變革改革的一仗。」而當時控方專家劉智鵬指，梁意思是以把選票等同「武器」，欲以暴力推翻政權。

但李詠怡教授說，當她翻閱法庭文件時，發現抄寫者把美國黑人民權領袖Malcolm X誤寫為「Comix」，中文版亦「亂寫一通」（李形容為gibberish）。

李教授指，這裡的典故來自Malcolm X於1964年發表過的演說， “The Ballot or the Bullet”,目的是要號召非洲裔美國人登記做選民及參與投票。李教授指：「這裡是一個比喻，就像我們說『時間就是金錢』。」

作供進行到下午，三位法官不斷發問問題。李詠怡承認，從連登找數據，只能找到「連帶關係」，不是「因果關係」，要找因果的話，則要用另一些工具。法官們亦好奇一些細緻的調查方法，例如為何「光復香港」和「時代革命」兩句要分開去作大數據分析，而不是一併去分析。

法官們翻閱一張又一張圖表，有時候，三位法官有人只有黑白圖表，沒有彩色圖表，律師們又要趕去找彩色圖表。大家翻查完一個又一個bundle，三位法官不斷發問問題。

那邊廂，坐在犯人欄的唐英傑，很仔細地研讀數據，他像個勤力好學的學生，一直跟進庭上的討論。直至下午，唐英傑每看畢一頁文件，會小心地用右手手指夾着紙張，擱在犯人欄寬闊的木欄上。

從早到晚，法庭忽然成為了跨學科的討論場域。元順帝，Malcolm X先後登場。從東方西方，從遠古到近代，人物夠多樣。怎知差不到多到休庭，還有多一個名人登場。

劉大狀提到Edward Leung (梁天琦)說了些甚麼，他卻說了Professor Lau (劉教授)說了甚麼。乾坐了一天的主控官站起來指正劉大狀說錯了。

劉大狀風趣地道：「哎，我說漏了嘴。」然而英語劉大狀說的是，「My Freudian slip」.

全法庭有人爆笑，連奧地利心理分析始祖弗洛伊德的理論也搬了出來，曾說過人皆有「戀母殺父情意結」的奧地利大師，指出我們說錯話，是潛意識想法浮出水面的表現。

然而這位還可以說笑，在庭上風趣幽默的劉大狀，昨午才以被告人身份，出席了西九龍裁判法院的47人國安法審訊過堂，獲得繼續保釋，才能今天披上大狀袍，站在庭上替另一位國安法被告辯護。被告身份與辯護律師身份交替切換，在現今香港，時代寫照也。

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國安法首審專家證人系列（六之一）：［Regime & Redeem］
7月2日控方專家劉智鵬作供
https://www.facebook.com/wwviviantam/photos/a.1435553239866430/4210137115741348/

國安法首審專家證人系列（六之二）：［Just Do it］
7月9日辯方專家李詠怡作供
https://www.facebook.com/wwviviantam/photos/a.1435553239866430/4229321820489544/

國安法首審專家證人系列（六之三）：［過去與未來］
7月12日辯方專家李詠怡作供
https://www.facebook.com/wwviviantam/photos/a.1435553239866430/4237523026336090/

國安法首審專家證人系列（六之四）：［知行合一］
7月13日辯方專家李詠怡及李立峯作供
https://www.facebook.com/wwviviantam/photos/a.1435553239866430/4240215429400183/

國安法首審專家證人系列（六之五）：［沒有誰比誰高貴］
7月14日辯方專家李立峯作供
https://www.facebook.com/wwviviantam/photos/a.1435553239866430/4243328702422189/

國安法首審專家證人系列（六之六）：［選櫻桃的人］
7月15日辯方專家李立峯作供
https://www.facebook.com/wwviviantam/photos/a.1435553239866430/4245860505502342/

（圖為辯方專家證人之一的港大政治與公共行政學系教授李詠怡離開法庭時攝，星期一她繼續作供）

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編曲：秦瀚(秦天)


你是愛情 Lucifer Lucifer
You are the devil of love, Lucifer
在愛裡無往 不利的
Nobody can stop you or your desires
讓我連 呼吸都 來 不及的
Your love makes me feel suffocated
攻勢那是你 故意的
Even though I know it’s intentional
Yeah Yeah
Yeah yeah
我愛你愛到快要 不行了
I love you so much I couldn’t breathe

Yeah Yeah
Yeah Yeah

是該全力 出擊了 出擊了
It’s time to give it all and fight back
那些被你淘汰 出局的
To those who you abandoned
誰叫他不 注意呢 要 粗心 Huh
Well they should have noticed that
像你嚼完的 Chewing gum
They’re like chewing gum when the flavor’s gone

Yeah Yeah
Yeah Yeah

這場愛情不歡迎 初心者
This relationship is not for beginners

Yeah Yeah
Yeah Yeah

但是在你的 身上
Yet I don’t see it
我竟看不見未來
I don’t see a future with you
看你人模 人樣
You are charming and sweet
卻是個渣男
But you’re just a player

又被你騙走 誰的心
Who did you hurt again?
到底你怎麼 會忍心
How dare you be so heartless
把人的感情玩弄於掌心
To play with people’s emotions
就讓我 來制裁你
I will give you a hard time
讓你倒 在失敗裡
To make you feel like a failure

Three
Two
One

讓你嚐嚐我的娘娘槍
Watch out for my pussy gun
娘娘槍
Pussy gun
讓你嚐嚐我的娘娘槍
Watch out for my pussy gun
娘娘槍
Pussy gun

看我的 Pussy Gun
Check out my pussy gun
打一窩蜂的 負心漢
Taking down all the heartbreakers
你的心早就不同
Your love for me has changed
像那健達 出奇蛋
Like a Kinder Surprise Egg

你說 你已經不再像 從前
You said you won’t do it again
不想玩 風險 想跟我同床 共眠
Won’t risk it anymore. Just want to share a pillow with me
你說你不想再 重演
You said you won’t repeat the same mistakes
想愛我 永遠 想和我走到 終點
You want to love me forever, and want to stay with me until the end

但是在你的 身上
Yet I don’t see it
我竟看不見未來
I don’t see a future with you
看你人模 人樣
You are charming and sweet
卻是個渣男
But you’re just a player

到底你怎麼 會忍心
How dare you be so heartless
把人的感情玩弄於掌心
To play with people’s emotions
就讓我 來制裁你
I will give you a hard time
讓你倒 在失敗裡
To make you feel like a failure

讓你嚐嚐我的娘娘槍
Watch out for my pussy gun
娘娘槍
Pussy gun
讓你嚐嚐我的娘娘槍
Watch out for my pussy gun
娘娘槍
Pussy gun

看著我有沒有一絲 愧疚
Do you feel guilty towards me?
可你也明白你無所 歸咎
There is no one to blame but yourself
別想走 回頭路
Don’t even think about going back
別向 誰求助
Or turning to someone for help
妄想 被救贖
Because you’re paying for it

又被你騙走 誰的心
Who did you hurt again?
到底你怎麼 會忍心
How dare you be so heartless
把人的感情玩弄於掌心
To play with people’s emotions
就讓我 來制裁你
I will give you a hard time
讓你倒 在失敗裡
To make you feel like a failure

Three
Two
One

讓你嚐嚐我的娘娘槍
Watch out for my pussy gun
娘娘槍
Pussy gun
讓你嚐嚐我的娘娘槍
Watch out for my pussy gun
娘娘槍
Pussy gun


・Song Credit・
作詞 田亞霍
作曲 田亞霍
編曲 秦瀚(秦天)
製作人 田亞霍
和聲編寫 田亞霍
和聲 田亞霍
錄音師 田亞霍
混音師 Wayson.H@Chill Entertainment
母帶製作室 W.S. Studio
OP/SP
大鵬傳播事業股份有限公司/豐華音樂經紀股份有限公司 Forward Music Publishing Co., Ltd.


柒柒影像製作
總監 : 張佑維（石頭）
導演 : 蘇尚珄
攝影 : 莊竣瑋
攝影助理 : 林川哲/朱奕琛/王思翰
燈光師 : 林岑璋
燈光助理 : 賴威仁/莊逸晨/郭欣錡/羅智軒
製片 : 董芷涵（董仔）
執行製片 : 林牧昕（木星）/張昱瑩/魏庸/郭沛鑫
剪輯 : 蘇尚珄


舞蹈團隊：MoveOnDanceFusion
編舞：Nike Chen
Dancers：
陳亞棣
何菘育
駱冠瑋
邱九儒
王鎮倫
黃宇麟
林雍筌
王皓

造型團隊
化妝: 吳阿志
造型:Jason Tu (Ig: jason_tpj )
頭髮:Tim 提姆
攝影:Davis / Angus


#賴晏駒 #小賴 #娘娘槍

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.