Good idea. The circus is exactly where AI belongs now. I wonder if he could learn to juggle and ride the unicycle too.
Many people have failed in this situation. Leon Rose has an extremely high profile list of previous and current clients. For being that <i>plugged in</i> to the NBA scene, he should have had enough foresight to get the starting and minutes questions answered before his client signed. Iverson had dinner with Chris Wallace, Michael Heisley and Lionel Hollins before he signed and he didn't think to ask about whether he would start and the distribution of minutes when he had talked about how important starting and minutes are to him less than 6 months prior? When the NBA web site is cognizant of who is likely to start for Memphis and Iverson isn't, then Iverson and Leon Rose ignored some obvious warning signs or there is something yet to be revealed about the committments that Iverson and Memphis made to each other.
Yeah, 6th man of the year, that is what former MVPs want. I just can't come to conclusion if you are from Mars or Jupiter. Help me out, please.
You'd think Iverson would be all for it. I mean when your too washed up to even be in consideration for MVP, why not go for another award. I mean, it's obvious that all AI cares about is individual accolades. This guy is a joke.
I agree that AI is a joke, now. But anyone following NBA, stars and AI in particular would know that he still thinks high of himself (which is not bad or unjustified). Grizzlies are a bigger joke though. Why in the world would you bring AI, pay him great deal of money and then minimize his name and try to change him into an ordinary roatational player. You know who he is - he is: a superstar, a strater, a ticketseller, but also: a ballstopper, a ballhogger, a washed up defender. So many have tried to change him, now a Teddybear will?
so much for Ai making this year "a personal year" for him and pretending "like it's his rookie season" to prove the naysayers wrong. he could have been the leader of the second unit, 6th Man of the Year, etc. instead he chose to do the same thing he did in Detoit: whine and cry about coming off the bench, asking for a leave of absence and threatening to retire. talk about a complete distraction. I never not liked AI until this week.
Bill Walton, was a former MVP and went to Celtics, won championship and 6th man award. He was out of job at that time and Bird convinced the FO. Not a bad story, wasn't it?
ok. I'd say put nowadays stars into that story, but I won't go that far. Instead I'll say replace "Bill Walton" with "AI", make a poll in kindergarden wheather it is a bad story.
Actually, Kobe recently said that he wouldn't mind at all coming off the bench later in his career. He said he'd take the role seriously and try to win the Sixth Man award. No way to know how he'd react if he were REALLY asked to do it, but I'm guessing he wouldn't whine like a little b**** like AI did last year and is doing this year.
Let me just say again what has been said many times: Iverson is lucky to have a team to play on. Nobody wanted him EXCEPT the Grizzlies. They can play him 2 minutes if they feel that's appropriate - it's their perogative. He can ask to be released I guess - but WHO is going to sign him? Again, ONLY Memphis made a contract offer. Perhaps another team might dangle the minimum to him? But I doubt it after his tantrums.
And you believed him. Go back to 2000 and read how he loved to play with Shaq. Go back to 2004 and you can read about how Kobe never pushed the Shaq trade.
At that point, he was trying to prove himself. Toward the end of his career, I can see him coming off the bench -- as an experiment of sorts, though. And I'm sure he'd demand 30-35 minutes a game even as a 6th man. Anyway, the point I was making wasn't about whether or not Kobe would actually DO it, it's about how he at least gives lip service to considering the possibility. Iverson, on the other hand, just keeps on mouthing off about how he's always been a starter and "I ain't no sixth man" -- he can't even imagine himself in that role and obviously refuses to seriously consider it. And it's costing him part of his career.
Of course both of those situations bother people. In both scenarios, he's signed a contract to be a member of a team, where his job is to do what the coaches tell him to help the team win. And in both scenarios, he's not living up to his end of the deal.
