Allen Ezail Iverson He was born on June 7, 1975 in the city of Hampton, located within the state of Virginia in the United States.
Within the field of play, your position is that of Point Guard, although he can also be seen performing as Shooting Guard, his favorite jersey number is 3.
It measures 1.83 meters and weighs approximately 75 kilograms.
He is considered one of the best shooters in the history of the NBA, maintaining the third best average of 27.9 after Michael Jordan Y Wilt chamberlain.
Before getting involved in basketball, Iverson used to be Quarterback for his high school football team.
With them he won the state tournament in his junior year of study.
Even so, his greatest success was cradled as a basketball player, despite not having been able to reach any title, because for a one-man team it is really difficult to achieve such a degree of efficiency.
Just before entering college, his career was in terrible jeopardy as he was the subject of a story that was central to many newspapers and television shows.
At the age of 17, he had gone out to a bowling alley to play with his friends, all of them African-American.
The point was that they were laughing very hard and causing annoyance so the owner asked them to lower the volume of their voices.
After this, a group of young people, all white, began to argue with the friends of Iverson screaming.
The action took place when suddenly a terrible fight broke out between both sides where Iverson was involved.
He and his three friends were the only ones arrested because of the altercation, and shortly afterwards he was accused of hitting a woman on the head with a chair.
In the sports field, his career was truly impeccable, receiving two years the award for Big East Defensive Player of the Year.
Upon his admission, he unanimously received the invitation for the Rookie Tournament Team.
In turn won the Gold medal in the World University Games held in Japan in 1995. He led the team of the USA both in assists and annotations, obtaining 6.1 and 16.7 respectively.
After two years within Georgetown, the situation within his family worsened, for which he was forced to put aside his career and appoint himself suitable to enter the 1996 NBA draft.
At that point, everything that the player was worth was shown, after having been chosen in the first position by the Philadelphia 76ers and establish yourself as one of the Point Guards elite in the NBA.
That same year he was chosen as Rookie of the Year, and entered without any problems to the NBA All-Rookie First Team.
His flamboyant style of play soon filled the stadium with Sixers.
Sadly all this fame came with a heavy pressure load from just about every angle.
The press, other coaches, and even great players of the NBA They accused him of being disrespectful and selfish with the ball despite his personal achievements.
He even had to endure heavy scrutiny from the managers of the NBA who did not like his hip-hop style at all, with chains, jewelry and tattoos all over his body.
Despite having scored an average of 23.5 points per game on the season 1996-97, Iverson He decided to go down in this category to become a more integrated player in the team.
In the 1998-99 season he led the Sixers very high in the Playoffs, being the protagonist in the 10 official games they played.
In this tournament he played an average of 44 minutes per game, despite his various injuries.
That year, despite losing to an experienced team of Los Indiana Pacers, Iverson reached his first title in terms of touchdowns with an average of 26.8 per game.
The following year he took the Sixers at Playoffs with an average of 28.4 touchdowns per game.
This season he was the only player besides Shaquille O’Neal in receiving votes for him Most Valuable Player of the Year.
In the 2000-01 season we could say that he had one of his best years. He received the award for Mvp of All-Stars Game to which he was unanimously included.
In addition to this he led the Sixers for the best record of victories in the Eastern Conference, 56 out of 26 defeats.
During this championship he also obtained his best scoring average, with a total of 31.1 per game. This earned him his second title in this category.
At the end of the 2001 championship, the NBA Most Valuable Player of the Year after receiving a trophy for having the most stolen balls per game.
During the Playoffs of that year, the Sixers defeated their karma from previous years, the Indiana Pacers and they reached the finals after Iverson will score a maximum of 48 points against Los angeles lakers.
Unfortunately the defending champions, led by Kobe bryant Y Shaquille O’Neal they took the trophy again, leaving aside Philadelphia.
This was perhaps the highest point in the career of Iverson, since despite receiving a new title in the following season for having 31.4 an average touchdowns, the Sixers did not pass the first round in the Playoffs.
In the 2004, being one of the stars of the team of USA besides the juvenile Lebron James, he disappointed his entire country in Athens Olympics.
The team was barely able to respond and the aforementioned players were left on the substitute bench for being late for practice.
Eventually USA reached the bronze medal, but was left far behind for example, before the champions of Argentina, among them Manu Ginobili, Fabricio Oberto, Walter Herrman Y Andres Nocioni, all members of the NBA.
On April 18, 2006, Iverson and his partner Chris webber They were late to the night of fan greetings and farewells before the end of the season.
During the Offseason the possibility of changing him to another team began to be considered.
Despite the desire to Iverson to stay as a player of the Sixers, things were not going well at all with the directive.
On December 19, 2006, the change towards Denver nuggets.
In the middle of the season you played for Denver, averaged 24.8 touchdowns, 3.0 rebounds and 6.2 assists per game.