peer的八卦，Yahoo名人娛樂都在討論

有位媽媽msg這段錄音給我。
16歲的女生剛經歷過這樣的事情，
情緒比較激動，請見諒。
但這也是她最真切的感受。
（他們說行得正企得正不用變聲，
我唔理佢，強行用software幫她變了聲）
＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝

她的媽媽今早託我回覆大家：

「謝謝你，睇佐D留言，阿女一路睇一路喊，今次係感動嘅眼淚，佢覺得自己為上街為關心香港的同伴講出心聲，而原來有好多港人都好有愛，爸爸話佢今早喊住返學考試！謝謝大家！」

「我早上一早就上班了，昨晚臨睡前我和她亦再度傾談，佢思想都挺成熟的，而這次的經驗對她而言獲益良多，知道香港有很多有共同信念，共同願景的香港人！而且在此之前，她對自己的學業很緊張，緊張到我們怕她面對不起明天的DSE,但昨晚她親口說她開始釋懷，開始覺得DSE沒有那麼可怕！」

「謝謝各位，有你們讓我女兒，我們的下一代沒有陷入絕望！」

===================
有人幫手聽著打了中英日文字版：

我今日是其中一位參與示威的人，我有一群朋友大家都是十多歲，今天(6月12日)出來不是為了打卡、不是因為朋輩影響。為什麼我們不顧一切不顧自己的安危走出來？是因為我們喜歡香港這個地方，相信香港是一個自由的地方。政府會聽我們的意見，但原來不會。
6月9號、103萬人上街，林鄭月娥(香港特首)可以把所有上街的人說的話、所表現的不當一回事。不要緊，我就當你認為我們不夠堅持，我們今天再出來。
一開始我也不敢下馬路，只敢在天橋看着示威者在樓下，我知道自己很軟弱，我在那一刻真的覺得自己很無助，我在天橋上看到在另一邊的馬路，有一位婆婆。70多80歲也願意出來，為了什麼？不是為了自己。
我作為一個中學生和同學們沒有做任何暴力的行為！而警察不斷發放催淚彈。知道我當時身處在哪裏嗎？是示威區。不單止一個催淚彈，大家都很大聲，叫你停止。告訴你們我們已經在撤退、要求你不要再放了、在走了、在疏散了。為什麼你們還要不斷在用催淚彈？你知道那邊有多少年輕人嗎？多少老人家？多少社工、基督徒？多少人走出來？
我在香港生存了16年，不能說很長，但至少這16年也讓我明白香港的核心價值在哪裏。是因為我們有自由，是因為我們以為我們在被施壓時也可以有出來抵抗、出來集會的自由。但原來並沒有，16年我所學所知的所有原來是假的。
我們的一班同學全部都很好，不顧自己先保護女生，我真的很欣賞他們。但你們到底知不知道他們多少歲？和我差不多大而己，你知不知道我有多慚愧、自責？
可能你們不知道催淚彈是什麼感受，是十分刺痛、像全身都被火燒一樣。我一邊走的時候看見在更前的人，是真的痛得只能坐在地上。那時我在商場內還是有許多催淚彈的味道，示威者真的逃走不了，只能在大叫、在問有沒有水。有許多比我做得更多的人，還在四處問示威者需不需要生理鹽水洗眼、幫受傷的人洗。
我這一輩子也不會忘記，最沒有辦法忘記的不是催淚彈有多刺眼，有多辛苦， 有多窒息。我最記得的是為什麼一群上街的、在前線的人被弄得昏迷。他們什麼也沒有做只能吶喊。到底怎麼了？難道在香港言論自由也是這樣奢侈？難道他們在申訴自己的不滿也是在犯罪？

=========================
另一人幫手打了英文版：

I am one of the protester. We have a group of classmates, we are all teenagers, we went out not for posting on social media, there was no peer pressure. Why did I not are about my personal safety? Why did I not care about anything and went to the protest? Why did I do that? Because we love this place called Hong Kong. We believed that Hong Kong was, perhaps, a liberal and free place still. Government would listen to our voices, but that is not the case.

June 9, 1.03 million went on the street [and protested], [Chief Executive] Lam-Cheng still doesn’t give a damn. None of the opinions expressed by the protesters matter to her.

I said: Fine, you think that we would retreat. We didn’t have the stamina to go out again.

At the beginning, I was too afraid to [go on the street]. I stood at the overpass and looked at the people on the street from above. I was not courageous enough to go down the overpass at first. I found myself a coward, I felt so helpless. On the overpass, I saw that there was an elderly woman on the other side. She is at least seventy or eighty years old, but she was on the street. For what? Not for herself. [*sob*]

I am a secondary school student, with a group of classmates. WE DID NOTHING VIOLENT! Police kept shooting us with tear-gas. Do you know where I was? I was at the [officially assigned] demonstration area.

One tear-gas bomb was not enough. We [the protesters] were all shouting: Stop […] We are retreating. Please stop. We are retreating. Why were you [the police] still using tear-gas bomb at us? Do you know how many youngsters were there? How many elderlies? How many social workers? How many Christians? They came out. [*sob*]

[I am 16 years-old]. I have been in Hong Kong for 16 years. It is not a long time. But I have come to learn the Core Values of Hong Kong. We have freedom. We have the freedom to resist even when we are oppressed. The freedom to assembly. The freedom to speak to anyone who would listen. But in reality, these things don’t exist. All the things we thought we have, all the things I knew were lies.

All my classmates are good people. They don’t care about themselves, they protect all their female classmates first. I really do appreciate them. Do you know how old they are? We are all at the same age. Do you know how guilty I feel right now?

Perhaps you have no idea how having tear gas shot at you feel like. It hurt so much and so badly. It feels like your whole body is on fire.

As I was retreating, I saw all those at the frontline. They were hurt so badly they [fell to the ground / could not stand up]. Even when I was inside the shopping mall [nearby], I could still smell the tear gas. We sat on the ground and we could do nothing but shout: is there water? There were people who did so much than I did, they were still asking me if I need water to clean myself or wash my eyes? I will remember them for life.

But the things I couldn’t forget the most wasn’t how horrible the tear gas felt, how my eyes hurt, how I couldn’t breath. I couldn’t forget the many protesters, people who were hurt, people fell unconscious - they did nothing but shouting . How come freedom of speech has become so costly in Hong Kong? How come expressing our dissatisfaction has become a crime?
=====================

日文版：
（今、私は）１６才です。
今日デモに参加したうちの一人です。
学校の友達と一緒に参加して、みんな同世代です。

私たちこうして声を上げたのは、（ソーシャルメディアで）チェックインしたいわけでなくて、
友達に影響されたわけでもない
どうして自分の安全を気にせずにデモに参加したかというと、
香港という場所が大好きだから
香港は自由があると信じてるから
政府が私の声を耳に傾けると信じてたが
そうではなかった。

6月9日、103万の人が街で抗議したけど、
林鄭（行政長官・林鄭月娥）にスルーされた。
全ての人の意見や声が彼女の眼中にはなかったのだ。
（そして、）私たちの不屈さまだ届いてないかもしれないと思い、
今日再び運動に参加しました

最初、私も怯えてて、歩道橋からみんなの様子を見るしかできなかった
下に降りることができなかった
自分は弱い人間だと思う

今思うと、その時の自分が本当に無力だった
歩道橋から向こうの車道に一人70，80才ぐらいのお婆さんの姿を見えた。
高齢者さえ参加したのに
どうして？自分のためではないの！

私、と高校の学友は決して暴力 など振っていない！
（しかし）警察から投げられた催涙ガスはすごい数で、途絶える事がなかった。
当時私はどこにいたと思う？
デモ地域だった
催涙ガス一つだけじゃ足りなかったみたいで
みんなはすでに大声で止めてって言いつつ
もう退いてるって言いつつ
止めてと要求して、もう離れていたことを表明したのに

それなのに催涙ガスが止まらなかったのです、なぜ？

そこにどれぐらい若者がいたかわかる？どれぐらいお年寄りがいたかわかる？
たくさんの社会福祉士、クリスチャン、他のみんなもその場に居た！

16年間香港で生きてて
これはすごく長い時間じゃない、
ただ、せめて十六年間通して分かったのが香港のコア・バリューというのは自由であること
私は圧迫されても抵抗できるという自由があると思ってた
集会の自由、言論の自由
でも実はそうではないと思い知った。
十六年間から学んだこと、知ったこと全部嘘だった。

学校の友達がみんな優しい
自分の身を気にせずにまず女子を守った
すごく感心した。
彼たちはいくつかと思う？
私と同じぐらい
すごく恥ずかしく思って、自分を責めてる
催涙ガス（投げられたら）どんな気分だったかわからないだろう
すごく痛かった、全身火傷があるような感じだった
走って（現場から）離れた最中、前線にいた人も見て
みんなも痛くて床に座るしかできなかった。
モールの中にいた時も催涙ガスの匂いが満ちていた
痛くて歩けなくなって、座るしかできなかった
何もできなくて、水があるかって叫ぶ事しか出来なかった。

自分よりもっと貢献した人がいて、
塩水いる？と周りの人たちに尋ねてて目を洗るのを手伝ってた。
生涯絶対忘れない
一番忘れないことは催涙ガスの所為でどれほど痛かったか、目がどれほど痛かったか、息ができなくてどれほど辛かったかということではない！

忘れないのは、前線に立った人と昏睡に落ちた人も居たことだ
何もやってなかったのに、ただ叫び続けたのに
どうして？

つまりすでに香港では言論の自由はもう贅沢品になったっていうこと？？

自分の不満を訴えることでみな法を犯したっていうこと？？

有位媽媽msg這段錄音給我。
16歲的女生剛經歷過這樣的事情，
情緒比較激動，請見諒。
但這也是她最真切的感受。
（他們說行得正企得正不用變聲，
我唔理佢，強行用software幫她變了聲）
＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝

她的媽媽今早託我回覆大家：

「謝謝你，睇佐D留言，阿女一路睇一路喊，今次係感動嘅眼淚，佢覺得自己為上街為關心香港的同伴講出心聲，而原來有好多港人都好有愛，爸爸話佢今早喊住返學考試！謝謝大家！」

「我早上一早就上班了，昨晚臨睡前我和她亦再度傾談，佢思想都挺成熟的，而這次的經驗對她而言獲益良多，知道香港有很多有共同信念，共同願景的香港人！而且在此之前，她對自己的學業很緊張，緊張到我們怕她面對不起明天的DSE,但昨晚她親口說她開始釋懷，開始覺得DSE沒有那麼可怕！」

「謝謝各位，有你們讓我女兒，我們的下一代沒有陷入絕望！」

===================
有人幫手聽著打了中英日文字版：

我今日是其中一位參與示威的人，我有一群朋友大家都是十多歲，今天(6月12日)出來不是為了打卡、不是因為朋輩影響。為什麼我們不顧一切不顧自己的安危走出來？是因為我們喜歡香港這個地方，相信香港是一個自由的地方。政府會聽我們的意見，但原來不會。
6月9號、103萬人上街，林鄭月娥(香港特首)可以把所有上街的人說的話、所表現的不當一回事。不要緊，我就當你認為我們不夠堅持，我們今天再出來。
一開始我也不敢下馬路，只敢在天橋看着示威者在樓下，我知道自己很軟弱，我在那一刻真的覺得自己很無助，我在天橋上看到在另一邊的馬路，有一位婆婆。70多80歲也願意出來，為了什麼？不是為了自己。
我作為一個中學生和同學們沒有做任何暴力的行為！而警察不斷發放催淚彈。知道我當時身處在哪裏嗎？是示威區。不單止一個催淚彈，大家都很大聲，叫你停止。告訴你們我們已經在撤退、要求你不要再放了、在走了、在疏散了。為什麼你們還要不斷在用催淚彈？你知道那邊有多少年輕人嗎？多少老人家？多少社工、基督徒？多少人走出來？
我在香港生存了16年，不能說很長，但至少這16年也讓我明白香港的核心價值在哪裏。是因為我們有自由，是因為我們以為我們在被施壓時也可以有出來抵抗、出來集會的自由。但原來並沒有，16年我所學所知的所有原來是假的。
我們的一班同學全部都很好，不顧自己先保護女生，我真的很欣賞他們。但你們到底知不知道他們多少歲？和我差不多大而己，你知不知道我有多慚愧、自責？
可能你們不知道催淚彈是什麼感受，是十分刺痛、像全身都被火燒一樣。我一邊走的時候看見在更前的人，是真的痛得只能坐在地上。那時我在商場內還是有許多催淚彈的味道，示威者真的逃走不了，只能在大叫、在問有沒有水。有許多比我做得更多的人，還在四處問示威者需不需要生理鹽水洗眼、幫受傷的人洗。
我這一輩子也不會忘記，最沒有辦法忘記的不是催淚彈有多刺眼，有多辛苦， 有多窒息。我最記得的是為什麼一群上街的、在前線的人被弄得昏迷。他們什麼也沒有做只能吶喊。到底怎麼了？難道在香港言論自由也是這樣奢侈？難道他們在申訴自己的不滿也是在犯罪？

=========================
另一人幫手打了英文版：

I am one of the protester. We have a group of classmates, we are all teenagers, we went out not for posting on social media, there was no peer pressure. Why did I not are about my personal safety? Why did I not care about anything and went to the protest? Why did I do that? Because we love this place called Hong Kong. We believed that Hong Kong was, perhaps, a liberal and free place still. Government would listen to our voices, but that is not the case.

June 9, 1.03 million went on the street [and protested], [Chief Executive] Lam-Cheng still doesn’t give a damn. None of the opinions expressed by the protesters matter to her.

I said: Fine, you think that we would retreat. We didn’t have the stamina to go out again.

At the beginning, I was too afraid to [go on the street]. I stood at the overpass and looked at the people on the street from above. I was not courageous enough to go down the overpass at first. I found myself a coward, I felt so helpless. On the overpass, I saw that there was an elderly woman on the other side. She is at least seventy or eighty years old, but she was on the street. For what? Not for herself. [*sob*]

I am a secondary school student, with a group of classmates. WE DID NOTHING VIOLENT! Police kept shooting us with tear-gas. Do you know where I was? I was at the [officially assigned] demonstration area.

One tear-gas bomb was not enough. We [the protesters] were all shouting: Stop […] We are retreating. Please stop. We are retreating. Why were you [the police] still using tear-gas bomb at us? Do you know how many youngsters were there? How many elderlies? How many social workers? How many Christians? They came out. [*sob*]

[I am 16 years-old]. I have been in Hong Kong for 16 years. It is not a long time. But I have come to learn the Core Values of Hong Kong. We have freedom. We have the freedom to resist even when we are oppressed. The freedom to assembly. The freedom to speak to anyone who would listen. But in reality, these things don’t exist. All the things we thought we have, all the things I knew were lies.

All my classmates are good people. They don’t care about themselves, they protect all their female classmates first. I really do appreciate them. Do you know how old they are? We are all at the same age. Do you know how guilty I feel right now?

Perhaps you have no idea how having tear gas shot at you feel like. It hurt so much and so badly. It feels like your whole body is on fire.

As I was retreating, I saw all those at the frontline. They were hurt so badly they [fell to the ground / could not stand up]. Even when I was inside the shopping mall [nearby], I could still smell the tear gas. We sat on the ground and we could do nothing but shout: is there water? There were people who did so much than I did, they were still asking me if I need water to clean myself or wash my eyes? I will remember them for life.

But the things I couldn’t forget the most wasn’t how horrible the tear gas felt, how my eyes hurt, how I couldn’t breath. I couldn’t forget the many protesters, people who were hurt, people fell unconscious - they did nothing but shouting . How come freedom of speech has become so costly in Hong Kong? How come expressing our dissatisfaction has become a crime?
=====================

日文版：
（今、私は）１６才です。
今日デモに参加したうちの一人です。
学校の友達と一緒に参加して、みんな同世代です。

私たちこうして声を上げたのは、（ソーシャルメディアで）チェックインしたいわけでなくて、
友達に影響されたわけでもない
どうして自分の安全を気にせずにデモに参加したかというと、
香港という場所が大好きだから
香港は自由があると信じてるから
政府が私の声を耳に傾けると信じてたが
そうではなかった。

6月9日、103万の人が街で抗議したけど、
林鄭（行政長官・林鄭月娥）にスルーされた。
全ての人の意見や声が彼女の眼中にはなかったのだ。
（そして、）私たちの不屈さまだ届いてないかもしれないと思い、
今日再び運動に参加しました

最初、私も怯えてて、歩道橋からみんなの様子を見るしかできなかった
下に降りることができなかった
自分は弱い人間だと思う

今思うと、その時の自分が本当に無力だった
歩道橋から向こうの車道に一人70，80才ぐらいのお婆さんの姿を見えた。
高齢者さえ参加したのに
どうして？自分のためではないの！

私、と高校の学友は決して暴力 など振っていない！
（しかし）警察から投げられた催涙ガスはすごい数で、途絶える事がなかった。
当時私はどこにいたと思う？
デモ地域だった
催涙ガス一つだけじゃ足りなかったみたいで
みんなはすでに大声で止めてって言いつつ
もう退いてるって言いつつ
止めてと要求して、もう離れていたことを表明したのに

それなのに催涙ガスが止まらなかったのです、なぜ？

そこにどれぐらい若者がいたかわかる？どれぐらいお年寄りがいたかわかる？
たくさんの社会福祉士、クリスチャン、他のみんなもその場に居た！

16年間香港で生きてて
これはすごく長い時間じゃない、
ただ、せめて十六年間通して分かったのが香港のコア・バリューというのは自由であること
私は圧迫されても抵抗できるという自由があると思ってた
集会の自由、言論の自由
でも実はそうではないと思い知った。
十六年間から学んだこと、知ったこと全部嘘だった。

学校の友達がみんな優しい
自分の身を気にせずにまず女子を守った
すごく感心した。
彼たちはいくつかと思う？
私と同じぐらい
すごく恥ずかしく思って、自分を責めてる
催涙ガス（投げられたら）どんな気分だったかわからないだろう
すごく痛かった、全身火傷があるような感じだった
走って（現場から）離れた最中、前線にいた人も見て
みんなも痛くて床に座るしかできなかった。
モールの中にいた時も催涙ガスの匂いが満ちていた
痛くて歩けなくなって、座るしかできなかった
何もできなくて、水があるかって叫ぶ事しか出来なかった。

自分よりもっと貢献した人がいて、
塩水いる？と周りの人たちに尋ねてて目を洗るのを手伝ってた。
生涯絶対忘れない
一番忘れないことは催涙ガスの所為でどれほど痛かったか、目がどれほど痛かったか、息ができなくてどれほど辛かったかということではない！

忘れないのは、前線に立った人と昏睡に落ちた人も居たことだ
何もやってなかったのに、ただ叫び続けたのに
どうして？

つまりすでに香港では言論の自由はもう贅沢品になったっていうこと？？

自分の不満を訴えることでみな法を犯したっていうこと？？

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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.