nba results的八卦，Yahoo名人娛樂都在討論

#2020能重來嗎？

這個開年太灰色，太讓人難以接受了。
一場病疫，感染了幾千人席捲了全中國與其他國家
一場大霧，直升機搖搖墜落，帶走了一個傳奇
我反復看了好幾遍飛機失事的影片直升機在空中打著旋跌落下來，人群中發出絕望的尖叫

在生命的最後一刻，像戰神一般的他，究竟會說什麼呢？在飛機下墜的瞬間，我想他肯定像抱緊籃球一樣的抱緊了女兒吧。

在眾多的懷念和哀悼里，我還沒有看到Kobe 妻子的聲明我明白此時此刻她一定很絕望吧
帶著2個孩子和剛出生的Capri在家裡盼望著愛人歸來

沒想到最後等到的，卻是如此噩耗。

那一年kobe21歲，Vanessa 18歲。

後來他們結婚了，Kobe 也真的很愛很愛她在去年11月的時候Vanessa還曬出動態紀念兩個人相遇20年Kobe真的很愛他的家人

到哪都會把妻子女兒帶著每年雷打不動的安排，一定帶小公主們去迪斯尼，每年一定不會落下任何紀念日，愛人、孩子的生日。
在外他是戰士是超級英雄
但在家他只是溫柔的丈夫是孩子可愛的父親
太痛心了，這麼溫馨的一家子不知道在承受多大的痛苦，還在家等著他的小可愛多年後長大了，一定會知道自己的爸爸超厲害吧

有無數的人為他禱告也期待這是場能夠醒來的噩夢
Kobe會身穿降落傘 ，抱著女兒一身臟兮兮的回到家中 衝著妻子Vanessa笑著說：

「我回來了。」

在我成長的路上，無論念書還是工作
身邊總有球迷，很多人都說，等有時間了
一定要去洛杉磯去看看他的球賽

後來kobe年紀大了，退役了，不再打球了
再後來，Kobe 去世了，世界再也沒有他了
並不是所有事情都能來得及，比如錯過比如重來。

「在這個世界上，許多別離徑直就是永別。
當時未能說出來的話，可能就將永遠無處可說。」

沒有長亭古道，沒有勸君更盡一杯酒
就是在一個和平時的一樣的清晨有的人留在昨天了
你有很想去做的事嗎，你有很想去見的人嗎？
你經常說下次，說來日方長嗎？

「#如果生命只有十天你會做什麼？」

很多人都回答，見最愛的人
和他們一起用力的過完剩下的日子。

Kobe永遠的離開了他深愛的家庭，永遠的離開了我們，武漢新型冠狀病毒也導致100多人死亡。

他們都無法，再跟最愛的人，用力的過完餘生
逝者無法輓留，意外不可避免，但生活也要繼續，最關鍵的是，留下的人，要如何好好的活下去

如果這件事不做會後悔，那就努力去試試看吧，如果這個人錯過了會遺憾，那就勇敢去愛吧
別留遺憾
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#我愛你
很多人阿一定要克服中國人personality里羞澀不善言表的那一面，多跟小孩和愛的人表達愛
像我媽
很難親口出一句「我愛你」，通常都是line 表示
我先生家更加內斂，愛從來放心底
可是像我每天都會對他們我愛的人們表示我的愛意
對小卡更是
Hey baby
Mummy love you,
Daddy love you.
#小孩不懂愛可是他能感覺到愛 #愛要及時

看到照片就在生命的最後一刻
Kobe已經拉出了座位上的二女兒Gianna並向上托舉，試圖將女兒Gigi 拋下地面令人絕望又心生敬畏。

這是凌晨四點最後的執著。
他說過的話，觸動了無數人，也成就了他自己
我不是超級球迷，但我從國小就知道他第一場現場NBA比賽也是看他 更知道他榮譽無數。

共奪過5次NBA總冠軍
2次總決賽MVP（最有價值球員）
1次常規賽MVP，2次得分王；
還曾11次入選NBA最佳陣容，
18次入選全明星，並隨美國隊拿下2屆奧運會金牌
我知道他會早起打球，會做公益慈善，會一次次失敗後重新站起來；我知道他的黑曼巴精神，激勵了無數人一次次超越苦難。

「總有人要贏的，那個人為什麼不能是我」
"someone has to win, why can't that person be me?"

「是的，有機會，只要沒結束，就一定有機會。我相信結果會有所不同。」
「Yes, there is a chance, as long as it is not over, there must be a chance. I believe the results will be different. "
...

致敬Kobe Bryant

偶像不會真的離場，因為精神長存
Heroes come and go，but legends are forever. #愛要及時

「如果幸福太難，那麼拜託你平安。」
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"พูดง่าย... แต่ทำยาก?"

คุณคิดว่าการเดินไปหยิบไม้จิ้มฟัน 1 อัน มายกวันละ 50 ครั้ง
จะทำให้กล้ามเนื้อแขนของคุณแข็งแรงขึ้นมาได้ไหม?
คงจะไม่...

แล้วคุณคิดว่าการเอาข้อสอบคณิตศาสตร์ของเด็กอนุบาล 1 มาทำวันละ 50 ข้อ จะทำให้คุณเป็นคนที่ฉลาดปราดเปรื่องขึ้นมาได้หรือเปล่า?
ก็คงจะไม่อีกเช่นกัน...

รู้ไหมว่าทำไม...
ก็เพราะมัน “ง่ายเกินไป” ยังไงล่ะ!
กฎของธรรมชาตินั้นมีอยู่ว่า อะไรที่ให้ความสะดวกสบายกับคุณมากเกินไป
จะไม่มีวันทำให้คุณเติบโต และอะไรที่ไม่ทำให้คุณรู้สึกเจ็บปวดเลยแม้แต่น้อย ก็จะไม่มีทางทำให้คุณแข็งแกร่งขึ้นมาได้เลย... แม้แต่นิดเดียว

เหตุการณ์หรือกิจกรรมใดที่มีความสะดวกสบายและความง่ายอยู่มาก
ก็ยิ่งมีบทเรียน ปัญญา และการเติบโตแฝงอยู่ในนั้นน้อย
แต่เหตุการณ์หรือกิจกรรมใดที่มีความเจ็บปวด ความยากลำบาก
และความท้าทายอยู่มาก ก็ยิ่งมีบทเรียน ปัญญา และการเติบโตแฝงอยู่ในนั้นอย่างมากมายเช่นเดียวกัน หากผู้ที่เผชิญเหตุการณ์นั้นยอมเปิดใจที่จะเรียนรู้

ในทุกๆความท้าทายที่จะทำให้เกิดการพัฒนา มักมีคำว่า “พูดง่าย แต่ทำยาก” หรือ “การเริ่มทำลำบากกว่าที่คิด!” ลอยมาให้ได้ยินอยู่เสมอ แต่ความจริงก็คือ “ถ้าสิ่งนั้นสามารถทำได้สะดวกเหมือนที่คิด หรือทำให้สัมฤทธิ์ได้ง่ายเหมือนที่พูด ก็อย่าเสียเวลาไปทำมันเลย เพราะมันจะไม่มีวันทำให้คุณเติบโตและได้เรียนรู้อย่างแท้จริง”

สิ่งดีๆล้วนต้องใช้เวลาในการสร้าง ปลูก ปรุง และดูแล ไม่ว่าสิ่งนั้นจะเป็นบ้าน อาหาร ต้นไม้ สมอง หรือจิตใจ อะไรที่ได้มาสะดวกรวดเร็วก็เหมือนบะหมี่กึ่งสำเร็จรูปที่สามารถต้มแล้วกินได้ทันที แต่หากกินไปเป็นปีก็อาจขาดสารอาหารตายได้

กว่าพระพุทธเจ้าจะตรัสรู้ กว่าบิลล์ เกตส์จะสร้างบริษัท Microsoft สำเร็จ กว่าวง The Beatles จะทำอัลบั้มแรกออกมาวางขายได้ กว่าไมเคิล จอร์แดน จะได้เป็นนักบาส NBA กว่า J.K. Rolling จะเขียน Harry Potter แต่ละเล่มจบ คุณคิดว่ามันง่ายหรือ...

“ยาก” สิดี เพราะทุกอย่างในโลกนี้ที่สามารถทำให้คุณเติบโตและพัฒนาอย่างแท้จริง ไม่มีอะไรที่ “ง่าย” เลย ดังนั้น คนที่ประสบความสำเร็จทุกคนจึงไม่ใช่คนที่ชอบความ “ง่าย” และรักความ “สบาย” แต่พวกเขาคือคนที่ชอบความ “ท้าทาย” และมีชีวิตอยู่เพื่อทำให้ “สิ่งที่ดูเหมือนเป็นไปไม่ได้” กลายมาเป็น “ความจริง”

หากคุณเลือกจะยกไม้จิ้มฟันต่อไป ก็ไม่มีใครว่าอะไร แต่ได้โปรดอย่าพร่ำบ่นว่ากล้ามเนื้อไม่แข็งแรงขึ้น เพราะมันจะทำให้คุณและคนรอบข้างเป็นทุกข์โดยใช่เหตุ กลายเป็นว่ากล้ามเนื้อก็อ่อนแอ และจิตใจก็ยิ่งย่ำแย่จากความเครียดอีก

จำไว้ว่าคนเราจะมีความทุกข์อย่างเรื้อรังที่สุด หากสิ่งที่เราต้องการในชีวิต ไม่ดำเนินไปอย่างสอดคล้องกับความคิดและการกระทำของตัวเราเอง
ไม่มีใครเคยบอกว่า “การพัฒนาตัวเองเป็นเรื่องง่าย” แต่สิ่งที่ทุกคนบอกก็คือ “ผลของมันจะคุ้มค่าอย่างแน่นอน”

ฉะนั้น หากคุณเลือกที่จะพัฒนาและเติบโต ก็อย่าลืมว่า “ความท้าทายคือสิ่งที่สร้างคน แต่ความง่ายดายคือสิ่งที่ทำลายคน” ความท้าทายถือเป็นสิ่งประเสริฐ เพราะคนเราย่อมไม่เห็นคุณค่าของสิ่งที่ได้มาง่ายเกินไป

การที่เราต้องใช้ความพยายามและความอดทนเพื่อให้ได้มาซึ่งความเปลี่ยนแปลงที่ปรารถนา จะทำให้จิตใจเราแข็งแกร่ง มีความสุข มีความภาคภูมิใจ มั่นใจ และทำให้เรามีความสามารถที่จะทำสิ่งต่างๆ ในชีวิต ให้สำเร็จลุล่วงได้มากกว่าเดิม...

โปรดจำกฎของธรรมชาติง่ายๆไว้ว่า:
"หากไร้แรงต้าน ก็ไร้การเติบโต..."

-ขุนเขา สินธุเสน เขจรบุตร
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" easy to say... but hard to do?"

Do you think walking to pick up 1 toothpick up 50 times a day
Can it strengthen your arm muscles?
Probably not...

So do you think taking 50 Kindergarten 1 math exams a day will make you a smart person?
Probably not again either...

Do you know why...
Because it's "too easy" anyway!
The law of nature exists what gives you too much comfort.
Will never make you grow and anything that doesn't hurt you at all will never make you stronger... even a little bit

What events or activities are very comfortable and ease?
The less lessons, wisdom and growth lurks in it.
But what event or activity has pain, difficulties
And more challenges, the more lessons, wisdom, and growth lurks in it. If those who face the event open their hearts to learn.

In every challenge that will cause development, there is always a word " easy to say but difficult to do " or " starting to do harder than you think!" always float to hear. But the truth is " if that can be as convenient as you think? Make Bronze as easy as you say. Don't waste your time doing it, for it will never make you grow and truly learn "

All good things take time to build, plant, cook and take care. Whether it's home, food, tree, brain or mind. Anything that comes convenient, fast is like instant noodles that can be boiled and eat immediately. But if you eat for a year, it may be malnourished

Until Buddha enlightenment that bill gates will build Microsoft Company, the Beatles will make the first album for sale until Michael Jordan becomes an NBA Basketball player than j.k. rolling will finish writing Harry Potter. You think it's easy. Or...

" hard " is good because everything in this world that can make you grow and truly develop. Nothing is " easy " at all. So every successful person is not the " easy " and love " comfortable " but they are the ones. Love the " challenge " and live to make the " impossible " become " truth

If you choose to lift your toothpick, no one says anything. But please don't complain that muscles are not stronger because it will make you and those around you suffer. It turns out that muscles are weak and the mind is worse from stress.

Remember, people will have the most chronic suffering if what we want in life does not go accordance with our own thoughts and actions.
No one ever said "Self-development is easy but what everyone says is that" its results will definitely be worth it

Therefore, if you choose to develop and grow, don't forget that "challenge is what creates people, but ease is what destroys people" challenges are good because people don't see the value of what comes too easily.

The way we take effort and patience to get the change that we wish to make our minds strong, happy, proud, confident and give us the ability to complete things in life more...

Please remember the rules of nature simply:
" without strength, no growth..."

- khao sinthusen charason
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這個人重製快艇的CI，根本大贏新款的啊.....
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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.

Marcus Camby figured his night was over.

Big lead, fourth quarter, road game in Houston the next night. Camby was all set to kick back and watch the final quarter of the Denver Nuggets' 110-99 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Friday night.

But when Cleveland sliced Denver's 25-point lead to 13 with 7:23 remaining in the game, Camby was sent back in. He scored four of his season-high 26 points in the final quarter and grabbed six of his 17 rebounds.

"It's always in the backs of our minds about blowing leads," Camby said. "The guys stepped up down the stretch."

Denver needed to the way LeBron James was playing. James finished with his first triple-double of the season -- 30 points, 10 assists and 10 rebounds -- and 10th of his career.

"We contained him," said Allen Iverson, who finished with 25 points and nine assists. "That's all you can do with players like that. You can't play this game scared."

The Cavaliers cut Denver's cushion to 103-98 on Damon Jones' 3-pointer with 3:15 left in the game. But Denver closed the game out with a 7-1 run.

The struggling Cavaliers have now lost four of their last five and dropped into a first-place tie with Washington for the best record in the Eastern Conference.

"We've just got to regroup," James said.

The Cavaliers received a scare when Denver's J.R. Smith fell on James' right ankle when both were scrambling for a loose ball late in the fourth quarter. James sat out all of 8 seconds before checking back in.

"It's been better," James said of the ankle.

Carmelo Anthony said earlier in the week this was a painful game to miss. He was looking forward to going up against his good friend James. The two will always be linked as James went first overall in the 2003 NBA draft and Anthony was picked third.

Anthony said he'd watch from his living room as he served his second-to-last game for the suspension he received for his role in a fight with the New York Knicks. Anthony's 15-game suspension will be done after he sits out the game Saturday night. He'll be back Monday night as Denver hosts Memphis.

James wasn't the least bit sorry that Anthony didn't suit up.

"Nah, he ain't my teammate -- no way," James said. "They already killed us on the offensive end, it ain't going to help it. As a competitor, of course I miss him, but not on the court. They definitely are going to be a dangerous team."

Smith was suffering from the flu and missed the Friday morning shootaround. He didn't come out onto the court until 6:56 remaining in the first quarter yet he finished with 14 points, the most he's scored since coming off his 10-game suspension earlier this month.

"I feel better," he said.

The Nuggets were gushing over Camby's play after the game.

"I've never seen him score like that," Smith said.

"He played like an All-Star center for us," coach George Karl said.

The Nuggets have watched third quarter leads slip away in five home games this season. But not on Friday night.

"We'll take it," Iverson said. "By 50 points or a point, we'll take it. If we'd have lost, it would have been bad. I like the results we had."

Cavaliers coach Mike Brown certainly wasn't pleased. He was clearly frustrated after the game.

"I don't know what it is yet, but I'm definitely going to find out," he said. "We keep thinking offensively we're bad, offensively we're bad, offensively we're bad. Yes, we will be bad offensively if we come down and take the first shot, if we come down and take a jump shot without moving the basketball, if we come down and take a shot after one pass. That's what we did tonight. That's the way the Denver Nuggets play. That's the way the Seattle SuperSonics play. That's how teams out West play. They want to get out and run the floor and if we fall into that trap, we will get beat every single time on the floor. ... We don't play a rat race. We don't play a high-tempo basketball game."

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.