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＂人生很難，但你就是得永不放棄！＂

－林書豪

#不要哭
#我心中的籃球英雄
🏀太感人的演講

-

提到『永不放棄』，林書豪是最經典的代表人物之一，從他起初背負與父親夢想，設定挑戰NBA就是遙不可及的事情，這豪情壯志講出來還會被人當笑話，甚至嗤之以鼻。

然而秉持不放，堅持信念、相信自己的態度，林書豪在高中帶領Palo Alto贏得該區冠軍，成為當地明星球員，但當他將自己比賽影片寄給各大NCAA籃球名校時，沒有一支球隊願意給他獎學金。

-

曾經有位評論員講過，如果換個膚色，以林書豪場上的出色表現和優異的學術成績，僅有不上的可能，但當時哪間籃球名校會給一個華人籃球員獎學金，這太難了，大部分一個刻板印象就是不行，應該只有被屌打的份。

但林書豪一樣不放棄，進入哈佛大學，身處的常春藤聯盟本就是小聯盟，在籃球領域上和關注度很難跟其他籃球名校比，在前進NBA的跳板上，他可說重重跌了一跤。

-

⚠因為哈佛大學上一個進入NBA的球員已經1954年的事情，#將近半世紀沒人可以打進NBA，因此這所學術界頂級的名校在籃球夢上能說是墳場。

所以林書豪想進入NBA，那基本是要夢醒了，在外界看來是一個不切實際的想法，可是他仍不放棄，帶著一種，就算沒人相信你，你也得相信自己的信念放手一搏。

-

沒籃球獎學金、不受重視的舞台，這沒關係，咬緊牙關堅持就對了，在這四年期間他打出相當全面的表現，面對一級名校Connecticut，他還轟下大學生涯新高30分，讓許多球探為之驚嘆，這華人小子到底是誰？

當然，選秀會林書豪沒上，過去也從未有本土華裔人士上過，會進入選秀的，大多都是在海外名揚國際的職業球員，如姚明、王治郅、易建聯、孫悅等人。

-

然而就是不放棄，前去發展聯盟等待機會，最終勇士給了他機會，最後輾轉到紐約尼克，才把握良機開啟傳奇性的『林來瘋』，一舉成為亞洲的驕傲。

⬛如果小時候就在大眾刻板印象放棄籃球夢。

⬛如果高中毛遂自薦失敗就放棄籃球夢。

⬛如果進入哈佛這樣籃球小學校就放棄籃球夢。

⬛如果在選秀失敗就放棄籃球夢。

⬛如果在被勇士與火箭釋出就放棄籃球夢。

-

就不會有現在的林書豪，也不會有這樣振奮人心、充滿奇蹟色彩、勵志的『林來瘋』出現去感染許多也深深擁有籃球夢的亞洲年輕人。

當有林書豪這樣的案例出現，絕無法想像對於同樣有夢進入NBA的人是多巨大的鼓舞，他就像是將高聳的巨牆敲出一個洞，哪怕再小，機會就是存在著，扮演一個引領大眾的成功夢想家。

-

而林書豪回台灣談到回顧自己的NBA生涯和當下處境，他很有情緒也很有感而發談了很多，首先他先談到他自己去年在多倫多暴龍的情況：

＂NBA是一個漫長的旅程＂
＂漫長又艱難＂
＂在傷癒後我去了暴龍＂
＂他們會選擇我證明自己依然可在這舞台打球＂
＂在加入暴龍我有12-15場比賽＂
＂可以決定自己在這球隊的未來是成功或失敗＂
＂但這幾場我創生涯新低命中率＂
＂還一度連續投丟17顆三分＂
＂到了季後賽我就完全沒出場機會＂
＂不過好在我們拿下總冠軍＂
＂在賽季結束後我一直安慰自己＂
＂試圖說服自己要克服這次難關＂
＂然後必須要重新振作起來＂
＂但之後開啟的自由市場＂
＂形成壓垮我的最後一根稻草＂

-

這九年來，林書豪受到多少打壓，我想我們是很難體會的，很遺憾，美國就是會種族歧視，有去過那裡住過，真的能深切感受到那樣氣氛，何況是在這運動職場裡，尤其是一個亞洲人本就不待見、被瞧不起的籃球領域。

所以對於自己回顧這些年的生涯，林書豪含淚的說道：

＂人生真的好難＂
＂我總是希望做事做正確的方式＂
＂但每一年的挑戰都越來越艱難＂
＂因為有一句話說＂
＂當你跌到谷底時＂
＂你只能往上爬＂
＂但對我來講每年的谷底總是越來越深＂
＂自由球員市場對我來講是很艱難的過程＂
＂因為有點感覺NBA好像放棄我＂
＂我一直都認為當有任何機會＂
＂別人可以懷疑我＂
＂他們就會懷疑我＂

-

而帶著這樣情緒回到亞洲，林書豪也很難受的說：

＂在這季後賽結束後＂
＂我就要展開亞洲之旅＂
＂說真的我很不想來＂
＂因為在這六週時間我都必須微笑面對大家＂
＂我要來跟大家分享一個總冠軍＂
＂但我不覺得自己配得上＂
＂我要來跟大家分享一個＂
＂我不知道是不是我想的未來＂
＂說真的，我覺得蠻丟臉的.....＂

-

最後林書豪告訴所有人：

＂我今天來到這裡對大家講我的故事＂
＂就是想告訴你們所有人＂
＂永遠不要放棄＂
＂我的講稿真的是一個小時前寫出來的＂
＂因為我自己每當要準備時＂
＂就會忍不住哭泣＂
＂在我離開美國展開亞洲行時＂
＂我就已經哭了三次＂
＂但我要成為一個榜樣＂
＂永不放棄的榜樣＂
＂我會一直在這裡＂
＂和大家堅持下去＂

-

不斷再講，林書豪已經不需要證明什麼，他在籃球夢所建構的偉大故事，早是一樁美談，甚至是不可抹滅的歷史，這促使他永遠在籃球軌跡裡佔有一個位置。

談到亞洲最偉大的NBA球員，姚明之後無疑就是他，未來有沒有真正流著亞洲人血液的球員成為第三人，我認為很難，短期之內很難有，不管是從海外、還是美國本土的華裔人士，這確實都是遙不可及的夢想，但過去林書豪就是這麼瘋狂不放棄的完成這樣艱鉅的成就。

回顧當年2010梯的選秀球員，現在只剩下14個球員還有球打，林書豪可以在聯盟打滾九年之久，我相信早已經打破許多人眼界，對此欽佩不已。

-

不管林書豪未來還有沒有NBA舞台，在我心中都是偉大的籃球員。

偉大有許多種定義，林書豪絕對具備這個資格，對於真正愛籃球愛打球、懂得尊重人的球迷，肯定了解其意義所在。

加油， Jeremy Lin 林書豪

你真的是很多人的偶像與榜樣，感染了無數人，我自己就是其中一位，身為長期的支持者，真的感到無比驕傲。

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⚠在此也順便提一下

你不喜歡我寫的球員可以不要看，討厭林書豪或討厭Westbrook你可選擇跳過，或者是退出我粉絲團都沒關係，別管我要寫誰。

我這不是新聞台，我寫我所想寫的，我有自己的主觀是一定的，但我絕對盡力一些客觀，以及尊重任何人，所以也請尊重我，

✔而如果你是喜歡我的文，也歡迎在『．．．』追蹤中那裡按『搶先看』，感謝你們的支持。

-

⬛我的Instagram
➡https://tinyurl.com/y2w7lgm5
✏️ HBK

＂人生很難，但你就是得永不放棄！＂

－林書豪

#不要哭
#我心中的籃球英雄
🏀太感人的演講

-

提到『永不放棄』，林書豪是最經典的代表人物之一，從他起初背負與父親夢想，設定挑戰NBA就是遙不可及的事情，這豪情壯志講出來還會被人當笑話，甚至嗤之以鼻。

然而秉持不放，堅持信念、相信自己的態度，林書豪在高中帶領Palo Alto贏得該區冠軍，成為當地明星球員，但當他將自己比賽影片寄給各大NCAA籃球名校時，沒有一支球隊願意給他獎學金。

-

曾經有位評論員講過，如果換個膚色，以林書豪場上的出色表現和優異的學術成績，僅有不上的可能，但當時哪間籃球名校會給一個華人籃球員獎學金，這太難了，大部分一個刻板印象就是不行，應該只有被屌打的份。

但林書豪一樣不放棄，進入哈佛大學，身處的常春藤聯盟本就是小聯盟，在籃球領域上和關注度很難跟其他籃球名校比，在前進NBA的跳板上，他可說重重跌了一跤。

-

⚠因為哈佛大學上一個進入NBA的球員已經1954年的事情，#將近半世紀沒人可以打進NBA，因此這所學術界頂級的名校在籃球夢上能說是墳場。

所以林書豪想進入NBA，那基本是要夢醒了，在外界看來是一個不切實際的想法，可是他仍不放棄，帶著一種，就算沒人相信你，你也得相信自己的信念放手一搏。

-

沒籃球獎學金、不受重視的舞台，這沒關係，咬緊牙關堅持就對了，在這四年期間他打出相當全面的表現，面對一級名校Connecticut，他還轟下大學生涯新高30分，讓許多球探為之驚嘆，這華人小子到底是誰？

當然，選秀會林書豪沒上，過去也從未有本土華裔人士上過，會進入選秀的，大多都是在海外名揚國際的職業球員，如姚明、王治郅、易建聯、孫悅等人。

-

然而就是不放棄，前去發展聯盟等待機會，最終勇士給了他機會，最後輾轉到紐約尼克，才把握良機開啟傳奇性的『林來瘋』，一舉成為亞洲的驕傲。

⬛如果小時候就在大眾刻板印象放棄籃球夢。

⬛如果高中毛遂自薦失敗就放棄籃球夢。

⬛如果進入哈佛這樣籃球小學校就放棄籃球夢。

⬛如果在選秀失敗就放棄籃球夢。

⬛如果在被勇士與火箭釋出就放棄籃球夢。

-

就不會有現在的林書豪，也不會有這樣振奮人心、充滿奇蹟色彩、勵志的『林來瘋』出現去感染許多也深深擁有籃球夢的亞洲年輕人。

當有林書豪這樣的案例出現，絕無法想像對於同樣有夢進入NBA的人是多巨大的鼓舞，他就像是將高聳的巨牆敲出一個洞，哪怕再小，機會就是存在著，扮演一個引領大眾的成功夢想家。

-

而林書豪回台灣談到回顧自己的NBA生涯和當下處境，他很有情緒也很有感而發談了很多，首先他先談到他自己去年在多倫多暴龍的情況：

＂NBA是一個漫長的旅程＂
＂漫長又艱難＂
＂在傷癒後我去了暴龍＂
＂他們會選擇我證明自己依然可在這舞台打球＂
＂在加入暴龍我有12-15場比賽＂
＂可以決定自己在這球隊的未來是成功或失敗＂
＂但這幾場我創生涯新低命中率＂
＂還一度連續投丟17顆三分＂
＂到了季後賽我就完全沒出場機會＂
＂不過好在我們拿下總冠軍＂
＂在賽季結束後我一直安慰自己＂
＂試圖說服自己要克服這次難關＂
＂然後必須要重新振作起來＂
＂但之後開啟的自由市場＂
＂形成壓垮我的最後一根稻草＂

-

這九年來，林書豪受到多少打壓，我想我們是很難體會的，很遺憾，美國就是會種族歧視，有去過那裡住過，真的能深切感受到那樣氣氛，何況是在這運動職場裡，尤其是一個亞洲人本就不待見、被瞧不起的籃球領域。

所以對於自己回顧這些年的生涯，林書豪含淚的說道：

＂人生真的好難＂
＂我總是希望做事做正確的方式＂
＂但每一年的挑戰都越來越艱難＂
＂因為有一句話說＂
＂當你跌到谷底時＂
＂你只能往上爬＂
＂但對我來講每年的谷底總是越來越深＂
＂自由球員市場對我來講是很艱難的過程＂
＂因為有點感覺NBA好像放棄我＂
＂我一直都認為當有任何機會＂
＂別人可以懷疑我＂
＂他們就會懷疑我＂

-

而帶著這樣情緒回到亞洲，林書豪也很難受的說：

＂在這季後賽結束後＂
＂我就要展開亞洲之旅＂
＂說真的我很不想來＂
＂因為在這六週時間我都必須微笑面對大家＂
＂我要來跟大家分享一個總冠軍＂
＂但我不覺得自己配得上＂
＂我要來跟大家分享一個＂
＂我不知道是不是我想的未來＂
＂說真的，我覺得蠻丟臉的.....＂

-

最後林書豪告訴所有人：

＂我今天來到這裡對大家講我的故事＂
＂就是想告訴你們所有人＂
＂永遠不要放棄＂
＂我的講稿真的是一個小時前寫出來的＂
＂因為我自己每當要準備時＂
＂就會忍不住哭泣＂
＂在我離開美國展開亞洲行時＂
＂我就已經哭了三次＂
＂但我要成為一個榜樣＂
＂永不放棄的榜樣＂
＂我會一直在這裡＂
＂和大家堅持下去＂

-

不斷再講，林書豪已經不需要證明什麼，他在籃球夢所建構的偉大故事，早是一樁美談，甚至是不可抹滅的歷史，這促使他永遠在籃球軌跡裡佔有一個位置。

談到亞洲最偉大的NBA球員，姚明之後無疑就是他，未來有沒有真正流著亞洲人血液的球員成為第三人，我認為很難，短期之內很難有，不管是從海外、還是美國本土的華裔人士，這確實都是遙不可及的夢想，但過去林書豪就是這麼瘋狂不放棄的完成這樣艱鉅的成就。

回顧當年2010梯的選秀球員，現在只剩下14個球員還有球打，林書豪可以在聯盟打滾九年之久，我相信早已經打破許多人眼界，對此欽佩不已。

-

不管林書豪未來還有沒有NBA舞台，在我心中都是偉大的籃球員。

偉大有許多種定義，林書豪絕對具備這個資格，對於真正愛籃球愛打球、懂得尊重人的球迷，肯定了解其意義所在。

加油， Jeremy Lin 林書豪

你真的是很多人的偶像與榜樣，感染了無數人，我自己就是其中一位，身為長期的支持者，真的感到無比驕傲。

⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⚠在此也順便提一下

你不喜歡我寫的球員可以不要看，討厭林書豪或討厭Westbrook你可選擇跳過，或者是退出我粉絲團都沒關係，別管我要寫誰。

我這不是新聞台，我寫我所想寫的，我有自己的主觀是一定的，但我絕對盡力一些客觀，以及尊重任何人，所以也請尊重我，

✔而如果你是喜歡我的文，也歡迎在『．．．』追蹤中那裡按『搶先看』，感謝你們的支持。

-

⬛我的Instagram
➡https://tinyurl.com/y2w7lgm5
✏️ HBK

LBJ與Melo成為NBA歷史上首組生涯拚戰19年還能成為隊友的組合！

這組合，是對於03梯有情懷的球迷必須珍惜的事情！

-

了解我的球迷應該都清楚，我一直都不是LeBeon James的球迷，但對於他那超級怪物級別的主宰力、始終如一的自我要求、與所建立的無數榮耀都給予很崇高的肯定與敬意。

相反地我很愛生涯一直被他壓的Carmelo Anthony，我想當初吸引我的是他的打法以及那迷人的微笑，還有那時他在Oak Hil、Syracuse我就非常關注他！

沒辦法，那時還年輕熱血，很早就會追一些高中球員，NCAA也常看，哪像現在，我連看今天開打的夏季聯賽都沒太大動力，NCAA也只剩會特定關注幾位，可能有些年紀比較大的球迷能理解那種熱情的消逝。

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Melo整個職業生涯拿來跟LBJ對比，真的只能用不順遂來形容，也因為兩人的瑜亮之爭，Melo總是被低估與看不起，其實假使去與其他人對比，Melo已經有個很璀璨的職業生涯，哪怕他沒冠軍，哪怕他後來被火箭搞了一波，都是相當精彩的！

檢視Melo到生涯這一刻，再看過去兩年他從低谷振作奮起，我自己真心希望Melo能夠擁抱歐布萊恩盃！與享受他同梯好兄弟LBJ、Wade和Bosh曾經歷過的夢幻時刻。

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期盼LBJ新賽季能如他所說的，面對流言蜚語與不看好的酸言酸語，一切就是用行動做為話語回擊，能夠帶領湖人擺脫去年失利，逆流而上再拚一座冠軍，去替Melo奪下最終的勝利！

兩瑜亮兄弟
🏀一起進入聯盟。
🏀一起參加奧運被震撼教育。
🏀一起觸底反彈為美國奪奧運金牌。
🏀一起努力在聯盟長年打滾創造偉大。

而現在19年了~
🏀兩人要一起挑戰歐布萊恩盃！

這很可能是Melo生涯最後一次對歐布萊恩盃發起挑戰，或許對於LBJ也有這樣的可能，畢竟時間老人永遠是最無情的敵人，明年賽季結束兩人都差不多要38歲了。

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總之明年我一定看爆湖人。
不管他們能走多遠、走得順還不順？
這都是對於03梯有情懷的球迷必須珍惜的事情。

我最愛的永遠是96梯，但03梯的經典與魅力肯定也是能排在心中前三的(84梯排我心中第二)。

#GoLakers #LBJ #Melo #Lakers

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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.