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Allen Iverson is an American former basketball player and rapper. Born in Hampton, Virginia, on June 7, 1975, he played as a point guard and shooting guard. He was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers and also played for the Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons, and Beşiktaş men's basketball team. His professional career spanned from 1996 to 2012.
Iverson attended Georgetown University and represented the United States in the 1995 Summer Universiade, 2003 Tournament of the Americas, and 2004 Summer Olympics. He received the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, the NBA Most Valuable Player Award, and the NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player Award, and was selected to the All-NBA Team. He has resided in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Hampton.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 0
Top works
- Misunderstood
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting · Hampton, Virginia, USA
Known for
- Mount Mutombo — Self2025
- Power Moves with Shaquille O'Neal — Self2025
- Allen Iv3rson — Self2025
- Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul — Self (archive footage)2022
- The Redeem Team — Self (archive footage)2022
- Hustle — Allen Iverson2022
- Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible — Self2021
- Vince Carter: Legacy2021
- Ready or Not: The 96 NBA Draft2021
- The Golden Generation — Self (archive footage)2018
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1975
Discography
- 40 Bars2000
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,515
- Total plays
- 25,944
Tags
Allen Ezail Iverson (born June 7, 1975, in Hampton, Virginia), nicknamed A.I., The Answer and Bubbachuck, is an American professional basketball player. He is an All-Star guard for the Detroit Pistons franchise of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In 2000, Iverson recorded a rap album named Misunderstood, with the single 40 Bars. However, after being criticized for its controversial lyrics, he eventually was unable to release it. Going under his moniker, "Jewels", the album was alleged
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,538x
- UK Biobank: An Open Access Resource for Identifying the Causes of a Wide Range of Complex Diseases of Middle and Old Age
· 2015 · cited 12,409x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,704x
- Use of Ranks in One-Criterion Variance Analysis
· 1952 · cited 10,894x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,205x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “You know, I've always told him (Larry Brown) I wanted the relationship that Michael Jackson... Michael Jordan, I'm sorry. … I wanted the same relationship with him like Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan had.”
- “Reporter: Could you be clear about your practicing habits since we can't see you practice?”
- “I don't know any franchise players that come off the bench. I don't know any Olympian that comes off the bench. I don't know any All-Star that comes off the bench. I don't know any former MVP that comes off the bench. I don't know any three-time scoring champion that comes off the bench. I don't know any first team All-NBA (player) that comes off the bench. Why Allen Iverson?”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Team
- _Retired Basketball
- Position
- Point Guard
- Nationality
- United States
via TheSportsDB
~40 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Allen Ezail Iverson (/ˈaɪvərsən/ EYE-vər-sən; born June 7, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "the Answer", he played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as both a shooting guard and point guard. As an NBA rookie with the Philadelphia 76ers in 1997, Iverson was named NBA Rookie of the Year. He was an 11-time NBA All-Star, won the All-Star Game MVP Award in 2001 and 2005, and was the NBA's Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 2001. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. In October 2021, he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. Iverson is regarded as one of the game's greatest scorers, ball handlers, guards, and among the most influential athletes in all of American sports.
Iverson attended Bethel High School in Hampton, Virginia, and was a dual-sport athlete. He earned the Associated Press High School Player of the Year award in both football and basketball, and won the Division 5 AAA Virginia state championship in both sports. After high school, Iverson played college basketball with the Georgetown Hoyas for two years, where he set the school record for career scoring average (23.0 points per game) and won the Big East Defensive Player of the Year award both years.
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