the sign of three的八卦，YOUTUBE、PINTEREST、PTT和Yahoo名人娛樂都在討論

ผมกับก้อยคบกันมา 16 ปีแล้วครับ....
แต่วันนี้เมื่อหกปีที่แล้วคือวันแต่งงานของเรา......
และเป็นวันที่ผมได้ทำในบางสิ่งที่ไม่เคยคิดว่าจะทำได้มาก่อน..

นั่นคือการตัดชุดแต่งงานให้ว่าที่ภรรยาของผมใส่ในคืนวันนั้น.....
มันเป็นการตัดสินใจที่ค่อนข้างบ้าบิ่นพอสมควร
และผมเป็นคนที่โคตรไม่ถนัดงานเย็บปักถักร้อยใดๆทั้งปวง เพราะมือที่ใหญ่และเก้งก้างของผม ...

ผมมีเวลาก่อนวันงานแต่งแค่สามเดือน จึงตัดสินใจไปสมัครเรียนตัดเสื้อผ้า กับคอร์สที่เร่งรัดสุดๆ

จำได้ว่าครั้งแรกที่เข้าไปเรียน ถึงกับรำพึงออกมาว่า นี่กูมาทำอะไรที่นี่วะเนี่ย555.......

ลองผิดลองถูกอยู่นาน จนถึงวันที่ทำเสร็จ
แล้วให้ก้อยได้ลองใส่ครั้งแรก ......แอบเห็นรอยยิ้มและนำ้ตาที่ซึมออกมานิดๆ ....

วันนั้น ผมได้รู้เลยว่าเวลาที่เราเห็นคนที่เรารักมีความสุข แล้วเรามีความสุขกว่ามันเป็นยังไง.......

ผมค้นพบว่า การตัดชุดแต่งงานสำหรับคนที่ไม่เคยมีพื้นฐานอะไรเลยแบบผม มันยากแบบสุดๆเลย แถมยังไม่รู้เลยว่าจะออกมาสวยมั้ย?..

การเรียนรู้ที่จะใช้ชีวิตคู่ก็เช่นกัน......
เราไม่มีทางที่จะรู้เลย ว่าหลังจากนี้ชีวิตเราจะเป็นอย่างไร....

แต่เชื่ออย่างสุดหัวใจว่า...... ถ้าเราสองคนช่วยกันประคับประคองทุกๆเรื่องราวในชีวิต ด้วยความรัก ความอบอุ่น
และความเชื่อมั่นซึ่งกันและกัน อะไรๆมันก็จะต้องสวยงามอย่างแน่นอน ^^

ที่รัก...
ผมคอยบอกคุณอยู่เสมอว่าผมโชคดีแค่ไหนที่มีคุณเป็นคู่ชีวิต
และไม่เคยเบื่อเลยที่จะบอกคุณอีกกี่ครั้ง
เพราะความรู้สึกนั้นมันจะไม่มีวันเปลี่ยนไปเลย
ไม่ว่าจะผ่านไปนานแค่ไหนก็ตาม

รักคุณที่สุดในโลกเลย
สุขสันต์วันครบรอบแต่งงานครับ
ภรรยาคนสวยของผม ❤
@koiseiko
5.5.61
Me and koi have been together for 16 years....
But six years ago today was our wedding day......
And it's a day I've done something I never thought I could do before..

That was the wedding dress for my wife wearing that night.....
It's a pretty crazy decision.
And I'm a very ungood person at any embroidery because of my big hands and predatory...

I only have three months before the wedding day, so I decided to sign up for a class with a super quick course.

I remember the first time I went to study. I was dancing. What am I doing here. Haha.......

Try wrong. Try right until the day you finish.
Then let koi try it for the first time...... I secretly see a smile and bring a bit of eyes....

That day, I know when we see someone we love happy, how we are happier.......

I found out that cutting wedding dresses for people who never had any basic like me is so hard and I don't know if it will come out pretty?..

Learning to use a couple too......
We have no way to know what our lives will be....

But I believe with all my heart that...... if both of us support every story in life with love, warmth.
And faith in each other, things will be beautiful ^^

Baby...
I keep telling you how lucky I am to have you as a partner.
And never get tired of telling you how many times
Because that feeling will never change
No matter how long it takes.

Love you the most in the world
Happy wedding anniversary krub
My beautiful wife ❤
@koiseiko
5.5.61Translated

It's good to be home, and in time for Vesak Day! On this day, Buddhist devotees commemorate the birth, enlightenment and nirvana of Siddharta Gautama Shakyamuni Buddha.

Wishing all Buddhists a happy and peaceful Vesak Day weekend! – LHL

回家的感觉真好，刚好也是卫塞节。:) 祝所有佛教徒有个愉快的卫塞节。– 李显龙

(Devotees taking part in the “three-step, one-bow” ceremony at the Kong Meng San Phor Kark See Monastery to mark Vesak Day. Taking a bow with every three steps is a sign of reverence for Buddha and repentance. / ST Photo © Singapore Press Holdings Limited. Reproduced with permission.)

ဖြူဖြူ့ရဲ့ ထွက်ရှိထားပြီးသမျှ ကိုယ်ပိုင်သံစ‌ဉ်သီချင်းlist ကလေးကို ထပ်ပြီး update လုပ်ပေးထားပါတယ် ❤️

ဒါက ခုလတ်တလောထိ ထွက်ရှိထားပြီးသမျှ သီချင်းတွေပဲ ထည့်သွင်းထားတာဖြစ်ပြီး ခုဆိုရင် ဖြူဖြူကိုယ်တိုင် ရေးစပ်သီဆိုနေပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ ကိုယ်ပိုင်သံစဉ် သီချင်း အသစ်တွေလဲ မကြာခင်ထွက်လာတော့မယ်လို့ သတင်းတွေ ရရှိထားတာမို့.....

ခုထွက်ထားပြီးသမျှတွေကို အမိအရနားထောင်ထားကြဖို့တော့ လိုမယ်နော်

ခုထွက်ပြီးသမျှသီချင်းတွေထဲကရော
ဘယ်သီချင်းအကြိုက်ဆုံးလဲ?
ဘယ်သီချင်းတွေ နားထောင်ဖူးပြီး?
ဘယ်သီချင်းတွေ နားမထောင်ရသေးဘူးလဲ ပြောပေးခဲ့ကြဦးနော်

အရမ်းကြိုက်တဲ့သီချင်းတွေ ၁၀ပုဒ်မကရှိနေပြီဆိုရင်တော့ share သွားလိုက်တော့ 😁

၁။ မိုးရေစက်များ (Ezy FM Live)
၂။ မိုးခါးရေ (ချစ်သူ့အမုန်းကျိန်စာ)
၃။ မှန်နေတဲ့အမှား (Shwe FM 2nd Anniversary)
၄။ ဒဏ်ရာများအောက်မှာ (Shwe FM 2nd Anniversary)
၅။ချယ်ရီလမ်း (မိန်းကလေးတစ်ယောက်အသည်းကွဲနေတယ်)
၆။ နောက်ဆုံးအချိန် (မိန်းကလေးတစ်ယောက်အသည်းကွဲနေတယ်)
၇။ သတိထားကြ (မိန်းကလေးတစ်ယောက်အသည်းကွဲနေတယ်)
၈။ ငှက်ကလေးလို (မိန်းကလေးတစ်ယောက်အသည်းကွဲနေတယ်)
၉။ မိန်းကလေးတစ်ယောက်အသည်းကွဲနေတယ် (မိန်းကလေးတစ်ယောက်အသည်းကွဲနေတယ်)
၁၀။ ကြိုးပြတ်သူ (မိန်းကလေးတစ်ယောက်အသည်းကွဲနေတယ်)
၁၁။ အန္တရာယ် ကြောင်မလေး (မိန်းကလေးတစ်ယောက်အသည်းကွဲနေတယ်)
၁၂။ အရှုံးထက်ပိုသော (မိန်းကလေးတစ်ယောက်အသည်းကွဲနေတယ်)
၁၃။ ဘာဖြစ်ဖြစ် (မိန်းကလေးတစ်ယောက်အသည်းကွဲနေတယ်)
၁၄။ လှည့်စားလိုက် (မိန်းကလေးတစ်ယောက်အသည်းကွဲနေတယ်)
၁၅။ အားလုံးအတွက် (မိန်းကလေးတစ်ယောက်အသည်းကွဲနေတယ်)
၁၆။ မယုံတော့ဘူး (Romanson 13 Years of Milestones)
၁၇။ အချစ်မီး (City FM 11th Anniversary )
၁၈။ မမျှော်လင့်ပဲ (City FM 12th Anniversary)
၁၉။ နာမည်ကျန်နေရစ်မယ် (နာမည်ကျန်နေရစ်မယ်)
၂၀။ ငါ့ခရီး (နာမည်ကျန်နေရစ်မယ်)
၂၁။ စစ် (နာမည်ကျန်နေရစ်မယ်)
၂၂။ ဒြပ်စင် (နာမည်ကျန်နေရစ်မယ်)
၂၃။ ခွဲထွက်ခြင်း (နာမည်ကျန်နေရစ်မယ်)
၂၄။ သွေးရောင်ဆူးည (နာမည်ကျန်နေရစ်မယ်)
၂၅။ ရမ္မက်ဇော ၁ (နာမည်ကျန်နေရစ်မယ်)
၂၆။ ရမ္မက်ဇော ၂ (နာမည်ကျန်နေရစ်မယ်)
၂၇။ အဝါရောင်တိုက်ပွဲ (နာမည်ကျန်နေရစ်မယ်)
၂၈။ လွတ်မြောက်ခွင့်ပေးပါ (The Sign of Love OST)
၂၉။ မျက်နှာဖုံး (မျက်နှာဖုံး)
၃၀။ မင်းက သတ္တိမရှိဘူး (ZPNI)
၃၁။ ရင်ပူနေမိတယ် (ZPNI)
၃၂။ ဒို့နှစ်ဦးအိပ်မက်(ZPNI)
၃၃။ April Fool (April Fool)
၃၄။ Let you go (April Fool)
၃၅။ Sorry G
၃၆။ No more (April Fool)
၃၇။ ခြားနားခြင်း (မုန်းတယ် ... အချစ်တု)
၃၈။ မိုးလင်းတော့ (Fashion Music Festival)
၃၉။ မျှော်နေမိသူ (မင်းအတွက် ၂)
၄၀။ အဆုံးသတ်အချစ် (မင်းအတွက် ၃)
၄၁။ Water Party ရေပါတီ (Water Party ရေပါတီ)
၄၂။ ငါ့ရဲ့ သစ္စာ (Plus Three with Angels)
၄၃။ အားလုံးနဲ့လဲပါတယ်‌ (အိန်ဂျယ်တွေစောင့်ရှောက်တဲ့အချစ်)
၄၄။ I'm Waiting For You (Another Starry Sky)
၄၅။ မခွဲကြေး (+ Cobra) (ချစ်ခြင်းရှိရာ)
၄၆။ ရွှေရောင်ကမ္ဘာမှမိန်းမသားများ (Group Song)
၄၇။ မိုးယံလွင့်ပျံလက်ခုပ်သံ (Tribute Song for SEA Games)
၄၈။ အရိပ်လိုအတူ (+ ဟန်ဘိုဘိုထွန်း)
၄၉။ ယုံလိုက်စမ်း (Single Online Release)
၅၀။ အချစ် (+ ဖြိုးကြီး)
၅၁။ဖန်စီဒိုင်း (စောဘွဲ့မှူး သီချင်းကောင်းကင်)
၅၂။နှောင်ကြိုး (အချစ်များနဲ့ကမ္ဘာ ၃)
၅၃။မျက်ရည်တို့ရဲ့ကဗျာ၊ဒဏ်ရာများရဲ့ရုပ်တု (နာဂစ်ပြန်လည်ထူထောင်ရေး)
၅၄။ ရှေးဟောင်းနှောင်းဖြစ် (+ ဟဲလေး)
၅၅။ အချစ်သင့်သူ (ဝင်လာမစဲ တသဲသဲ)
၅၆။ Still Believe in Love(Storm)
၅၇။ Miracle(+Lancifer+Wendell Ray)
၅၈။ LA to Yangon(+Lancifer)(Storm)
၅၉။ Bridges(+Lancifer)(Storm)
၆၀။ မျက်ရည်(ကျည်ဆံတွေအစားပန်းများပွင့်စေ)
၆၁။ နောက်မဆုတ်နဲ့မီးငယ်(နှလုံးသားဒိုင်ယာရီ ၂)
၆၂။ တို့ကျောင်းနှစ်ပတ်လည်(ဆေး ၁ အမှတ်တရ online release)
၆၃။ သူရဲကောင်းများနဲ့ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး(ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးဂီတပွဲတော်)
၆၄။ ဆည်းလည်းရှိုက်သံ(လှိုင်းရွှေရတုပြန်ဆိုတေး)
၆၅။ အရှေ့တံခါးအဝင်(ရွှေကြာ ရုပ်ရှင်ဇာတ်ဝင်တေး)
၆၆။ ရာဇဝင်ထဲကကြိုး(ထာဝရဖဲကြိုးဖြူ)
၆၇။ ရင်ခုန်ခွင့်ပြုပါ (Immortal Diary)
၆၈။တော်ဝင်ထန်း(+ထွန်းအိန္ဒြာ ဗိုလ်)(တော်ဝင်ထန်း Theme Song)
၆၇။ Better Collaboration.. brighter future(with Phyo Pyae Sone)(For Covid 19 awareness)
၆၈။ ဒါ...တို့ရဲ့ကမ္ဘာ (group song) (For Covid 19 awareness)
၆၈။ Save the world (Group song) (For Covid 19 awareness)
၆၈။ ရင်ခွဲပင်လယ် (+မိစန္ဒီ)
၆၉။ ထွက်သွားပါတော့ (single song)
၇၀။ လမ်း (+Cobra)(သဝန်တိုတာအရမ်းချစ်လို့ album)
၇၁။ နင်မရှိပဲ (သဝန်တိုတာအရမ်းချစ်လို့ album)
၇၂။ သဝန်တိုတာအရမ်းချစ်လို့ (+Cobra)(သဝန်တိုတာအရမ်းချစ်လို့ album)
၇၃။ အလိုအပ်ဆုံးအရာ (သဝန်တိုတာအရမ်းချစ်လို့ album)
၇‌၄။ အလွမ်းပုံပြင် (သဝန်တိုတာအရမ်းချစ်လို့ album)
၇၇။ ငါထင်တာတွေသာမှားပါစေ (သဝန်တိုတာအရမ်းချစ်လို့ album)
၇၈။ အရာရာမင်း (+Cobra)(သဝန်တိုတာအရမ်းချစ်လို့ album)
၇‌၉။ ရှေ့ဆက် တို့အတူ (+Ar T) (HIV/AIDS Awareness)
၈၀။ Private Dating (+Thein Lin Soe) (Single Song)
၈၁။ ကျေးဇူးတရားရဲ့ပဲ့တင်သံ (group) (for covid 19 awarenesses)

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I’ve been spending the last two or three weeks studying Wolof, a West African language spoken in Senegal, the Gambia, and Mauritania, and today I’ve come to Harlem to try it out in NYC’s Little Senegal neighborhood, including at the Malcolm Shabazz Harlem Market and the great Senegalese restaurant Le Baobab on 116th street.

If you haven’t had the opportunity to try Senegalese cuisine, I would highly recommend checking out the ceebu jën (also spelled thieboudienne) here, which is Senegal’s national dish! It’s also the origin of the popular Nigerian and Ghanaian dish “jollof rice” — the word “jollof” actually originally refers to Wolof!

I learned by chatting with Awa on Italki for 1-2 hours per day. If you’re interested in learning Wolof or French (she’s a native French speaker as well), I would highly recommend booking a lesson with her — she’s an absolutely amazing teacher! https://www.italki.com/teacher/6971240

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Nobody but The Answer himself knows the answers to all of the financial and legal questions that keep popping up about Allen Iverson nowadays. The one thing that is certain about Iverson is that no matter how much negative press he receives, he’s still loved all around the round as an almost cult figure especially in Asia where they worship the crossover king.

Earlier this year, The Answer joined The Professor and his Ballup teammates in a three game Chinese exhibition tour that brought out tens of thousands of fans to the games and in the streets to see the American streetball stars and ex NBA star.

Although Grayson “The Professor” Boucher never made it to the NBA, he also has reached a cult status for breaking ankles and putting on amazing ball handling exhibitions over the past decade on the And1 Mixtapes and now the Ballup Tour which will be on FoxSprots1 TV later this summer.

From the highlights of the video, it looks like Iverson still has a lot of game left in him and there’s no shortage of people that still want to see him play so if AI doesn’t sign with a pro team in the US or overseas, hopefully we get to see him in a few more exhibition events like this. In the meantime, it looks like we will just have to rewatch and enjoy classic Iverson footage and wait on The Answer.

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.