get back to sport的八卦，YOUTUBE和Yahoo名人娛樂都在討論

In a normal sports calendar, preparation for Olympics usually took a year or two. That’s when you went through the Olympic qualifiers. That’s when you gained your Olympic points. That’s when you try to break the Olympic qualifying time. As the event got nearer, most likely you would sharpen your skills , toughen your drills and strengthen your mental strength in special programs organized by MSN or your respective sport bodies.

Today marks 30 days before the biggest sports event in the world. I admit this time might be different. A pandemic-torn Olympic. Preparation are hardly like before. But the difference might turn out kind for some , especially the darkhorses. It’s the time for the only the tough to get going.

Coincides with the Olympic Day as well, I would like to send a “war-cry like” to fellow Malaysian Olympians. “Be an eternal Malaysia hero”.
When I beat Lin Dan in my last ever Olympic victory match, nothing beat the proudness and honour. I was dead tired at that time in the semis. I thought I would have lost to Lin Dan again. But I told myself not to let down the 32million prayers back home. Giving me the extra mile to clinch the winning point. How the country celebrated was still fresh in my mind. Imagine the national eruption if my tired body didn’t give way and I could beat Chen Long the day after?

I missed my chance. It’s your turn now, comrades.

Remember. Everytime you wear the national crest and enter the arena, tell yourself that you are not alone. Behind you together marching in with you, are 32 million our people praying for you, cheering for you. Be a Malaysian…..hero.
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Sempena Hari Olympik hari ini, saya ingin menyeru agar atlit-atlit negara yang akan beraksi di Tokyo nanti , untuk mempersembahkan aksi terbaik demi lambang di dada. Ingatlah. Olimpik hanya dilangsungkan 4 tahun sekali. Berapa kali seorang atlit mampu beraksi di persada Olimpik dalam karier sukannya? Tidak banyak. Berapa kali saya doa agar diberi peluang kembali ke pentas Olympik, saya redha tidak akan termakbul lagi.

Rakan seperjuangan sekalian, walaupun Chong Wei tidak berjaya , saya yakin salah seorang daripada anda boleh. Ingatlah. Kamu bukan turun ke padang bersendirian, kamu turun bersama 32 juta rakan rakan seperjuangan yang menyorak nama anda. Mendoakan kemenangan anda. Berusahalah, untuk menjadi wira abadi negara. Jangan lupa, #malaysiaboleh

这一幕，你记得吗？ #国际奥林匹克日2021

#InternationalOlympicDay

【Badminton Asia Championships 2017 Date: April 25th~30th】

感謝各位多日來的加油，大家在比賽沒有轉播下對著比分直播加油，您們實在了不起。明天...就在明天...我們可以看到資穎的比賽轉播了，明天4/30日她將對上來自日本好手山口茜，比賽時間大約是下午5:00左右(TV court 第四場次)。資穎明將為連續的第六冠衝刺，#穎迷 們、我的加油聲，吶喊聲，怎麼能小呢。集氣助威，讓資穎幫台灣把亞錦首冠帶回來吧!
Tzu Ying is gonna fight for the championship against Akane Yamaguchi at about 5:00 pm tomorrow.This is their 7th meeting playing against each other, their head to head was 3-3. Tzu Ying will give her best in this match. Fans do give your support for her. Good luck! Get the title done and bring it back to Taiwan.^^page admin
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Youtube 直播：Badminton V
https://youtu.be/6ZEdDffsIfg
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http://www.zhangyu.tv/yuyi
電視收看
11 Sports：
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Live score for PC:
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Live score for mobile:
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Official website:
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My new gunner set coming✨✨✨
dragon egg back pack look nice in sport style Right💘💘
I would say heavy arms always set with cool back pack(*´∀`)
what is your gunner loadout my friends? Just show me 😈
Hmmm…think it over,I hardly ever use M132 after I get it😕
main reason is I'm not really used to hip shooting(*´д`)
hope someday I'll find XM556 grip custom parts for her👾

Matzka x 小S x 黃明志 x 中年舞者 打造超性感爆笑MV
立即收聽 🎧 https://Matzka.lnk.to/Station
Matzka官方Youtube訂閱： https://goo.gl/pt2b2h
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將中年男子生活中的小趣味寫成一首歌 . 要不想歪絕對很難

當你發現一個性感女人的直播，你腦中想像的畫面，是否都是在和她一起「做運動」？隨著 One More Two More 的節奏彷彿也體驗了愉悅快感！如果你體驗過早晨起來雙人瑜伽的開心感受，那這首歌你要不想歪絕對很難！！

《早晨瑜伽》請來演藝圈最性感、最喜歡做瑜伽的小S助陣，Matzka 充滿男人味的嗓音搭配小S性感而俏皮的合唱，成為一首讓人臉紅心跳卻又愛不釋手的動感歌曲。而 MV 更請到入圍金曲獎最佳男歌手，紅遍亞洲的創意歌手與影像創作者黃明志執導，黃明志精心設計了一群大叔與性感主婦小S 之間的爆笑片段，大家一起跟著音樂運動搖擺。更值得一提的是，Matzka想表達中年大叔與大媽可能都是深藏不露的舞林高手這獨特的概念，特地找來以前學舞時認識，已經轉行或退休的一流舞者來助陣。一群看似白髮蒼蒼、肚子微凸的中年男女，跳起舞來卻厲害得不得了，超級反差讓導演黃明志與現場工作人員都看傻了眼。

拍攝當天小S身體不適卻抱病力挺，賣力跳舞、做瑜伽、展現性感姿態，讓 Matzka 對她致上無比的敬意與謝意。小S更提到 Matzka 是他一直以來相當欣賞的音樂創作者，覺得他的音樂充滿能量，所以一聽到 Matzka 的合作邀約，便排除萬難也要參與！而兩人的音樂合作搭配黃明志在影像上的無限創意，三個巨星一同合作，完成這激烈而充滿遐想，讓人忍不住想偷偷跟著舞動的《早晨瑜伽》！

Matzka 全新專輯 《Matzka Station》
4/26登場!!!!
第一關 東南美 第二關 Matzka Station
用遊戲的思維挑戰生活的難關，
突破常規、創建關卡再使大絕破關
無論音樂．事業．感情．家庭．
破關就是他的成長方式
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早晨瑜伽（Feat.小S） Morning Yoga
作詞：Matzka、梁嘉銘（寶爺）
作曲：Matzka、ARI 阿瑞

小S：
Okay, everyone is ready?
How about bass?
How about guitar?
Backing vocal?
（Ah～）

MC Ari：
Ladies and Gentlemen, prepare your body.

早上起來刷刷牙
對面姑娘在澆花
我跟她 Say hello（Say hello）

她身材非常 Hot
完勝小澤瑪莉亞
I say 3Q God（Thank you God）

男人誰能不愛她
不吃辣也能吃辣
雪白修長的雙腿
性感無邊短頭髮

屁股飛天翹
黃金比例太妖嬌
林志玲出場也會狼狽落荒而逃

她換上緊身衣
笑出個大漣漪
雙腿張開還給我個神秘的微笑

小S：別想太多只是在做運動

One More 轉身 甩髮 蹲下去
Two More 伸手 張腿 拉拉筋
Three More 抬腳 昂首 都是戲
Four More 香汗 淋漓 So sexy

仰臥起坐 In Da House
性感深蹲 In Da House
痛苦拉筋 In Da House
伏地挺身 In Da House

仰臥起坐 In Da House
性感深蹲 In Da House
痛苦拉筋 In Da House
老婆不在 In Da House

小S：
Okay everybody, now we going to the lesson two, lesson two, is all about, YOGA～

（Ah～ Ah～ ）

姑娘性感做瑜伽
對面我開滿心花
就跟她 Say bravo（Say bravo）

我的體態不算差
只是肚子有點大
She say oh my gosh（Say OMG）

我就像一個傻瓜
口水留下一大灘
開始幻想如果我是妳的啊拿答

雙人做瑜伽
你在上呀我在下
到最後會不會做出一個胖娃娃

我換上緊身衣 忍不住笑咪咪
雙腿劈開下面傳來撕裂的聲音

小S：
運動前請記得做 Warm up！

One More 轉身 甩髮 蹲下去
Two More 伸手 張腿 拉拉筋
Three More 抬腳 昂首 都是戲
Four More 香汗 淋漓 So sexy

仰臥起坐 In Da House
性感深蹲 In Da House
痛苦拉筋 In Da House
伏地挺身 In Da House

仰臥起坐 In Da House
性感深蹲 In Da House
痛苦拉筋 In Da House
老婆不在 In Da House

小S：
Go slow, a little to the left, make you some watch you get.
Bend low, and catch a breath, we’re going for the stretch.
Lean back, expose your crack, hold on, to the sec,
That’s right, you’re doing fine, I’m do you over time.

One More 轉身 甩髮 蹲下去
Two More 伸手 張腿 拉拉筋
Three More 抬腳 昂首 都是戲
Four More 香汗 淋漓 So sexy

仰臥起坐 In Da House
性感深蹲 In Da House
痛苦拉筋 In Da House
伏地挺身 In Da House

仰臥起坐 In Da House
性感深蹲 In Da House
痛苦拉筋 In Da House
老婆不在 In Da House

小S：
Gentlemen, be careful of your wife.

詞：Matzka、梁嘉銘（寶爺）
曲：Matzka、ARI 阿瑞
製作人 PRODUCER：荒井十一、Matzka
編曲 MUSIC ARRANGEMENT：Matzka、ARI 阿瑞
鼓 DRUMS：Padget Nanton
低音吉他 BASS：Rayvaughn
合成貝斯 SYNTH BASS：Fergus Chow
吉他 GUITAR：Matzka、ARI 阿瑞
打擊樂 PERCUSSION：荒井十一
和聲編寫 BACKING VOCALS ARRANGEMENT：Matzka、ARI阿瑞、田曉梅 Brandy Tien
和聲 BACKING VOCALS：Matzka、ARI 阿瑞、田曉梅 Brandy Tien
Matzka主唱、和聲錄音 VOCAL & BACKING VOCAL RECORDED BY：單為明 @ Lights Up Studio, Taipei
小S主唱錄音 VOCAL RECORDED BY：Andy Baker @ 強力錄音室鼓、低音吉他、吉他、打擊樂器錄音 DRUMS & BASS & GUITARS & PERCUSSION RECORDED BY：周天澈、倪涵文、雷長航、李卓
音樂編輯 AUDIO EDITED BY：荒井十一、倪涵文、李宗遠

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文化部影視及流行音樂產業局

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.