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[announcer] Seems like exchanging
handshakes down there.

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[interviewer] The [indistinct]
isn't that bad, huh?

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Yeah, man. Hell, yeah.

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I'm the rookie, and they treat me like it.

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It's all right, though,
I get some respect.

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[interviewer] How does that make you feel
when you bring your game up another notch?

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With me, it kind of gets exciting,

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because I know if I can improve
from one year to the next,

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I can't wait for the opportunity
to be 25 or 26

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and really understand the game and know
how to go be strong as I'm gonna be,

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to be able to compete then.
I just wonder how good I can be.

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[interviewer] Would you say
that's one of your goals,

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to figure out how good you can be?

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Definitely.

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[interviewer] Would you say that for me?

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Would you say that for me? For the camera?

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Oh, one of my goals, is, um...

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I'm not sure I wanna put it.

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[reporter 1] He's what I call
a thug-light lifestyle...

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[reporter 2] He refuses to show up
for work and practice...

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[reporter 3] It's a constant
authority type of thing.

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[reporter 4] The bad boy image.

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[reporter 5] You score 40?
So what?

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[reporter 6] A troubling role model.

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I've been hearing, "I wanna change
and do better" for four years.

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Why should we believe you that you're
really gonna get along with this guy?

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In fact, you two guys, I'd like to see you
go one-on-one, actually.

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[Larry] You know, somewhere along
the line you've got to say,

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"Hey, I've gotta be responsible enough
or care about the team enough."

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It came to a boiling point.

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Obviously, it got out of control.

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I said, "We'll meet tomorrow.

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We'll meet at the training facility."

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[Larry] No meeting with Allen
was ever appropriate or beneficial

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unless it was Allen and I,

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because he would always
be respectful of whatever I said.

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[Pat] Went into this boardroom,
and it was ugly.

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Larry didn't wanna be called
to the same level as his player.

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I didn't care.

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You're not getting traded,
and you're not getting fired.

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I've never told either one
of you what to do.

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I'm telling you right now.

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You're both staying.

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[Allen] I might say, "Him or me."

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I might say some shit like that.

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I said to Allen, put yourself
in the coach's shoes.

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He takes you off the court,
and you motherfuck him.

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Everyone in the stands knows it,
the television cameras catch it,

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how would you feel?

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He kind of looks, and the coach
is sitting up straight,

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and I said, "Larry, how about you?

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You're his head coach.

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Allen has told me that when you take him
off the court, you say, 'Sit down.'

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It's no different than the white jailer
saying, 'Sit down, N-word.'"

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And Larry Brown went, "Whoa."

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That right there,
I get a chill still to this day.

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Allen had sat up,
put his arms on the table.

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I said, "Both of you
have the same love of basketball.

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Both of you have the intention
and desire to win.

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So you're both looking
in the mirror. Drop it!"

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[Allen] I had him all wrong.
He had the blueprint already.

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He knew what he wanted to do.

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[Pat] Allen got up,
walked around the table,

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Larry stood up, and he hugged
and hugged

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for what seemed like eternity.

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[Allen]
I remember the effects of it even more.

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You could actually feel it
on the basketball court.

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I could feel it in my game.
A big-time weight lifted off of me.

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He was able to make everyone else better
by making me better.

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["Notorious Thugs"
by Notorious B.I.G. plays]

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[excited sports announcing]

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[reporter] Iverson's move this season
from point to off guard

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made him even more dangerous.

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[announcer] Iverson behind the back.

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[Allen] So many advantages
playing the two. Two guard gotta kill.

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And that was right up my alley.

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[announcer]
Putting on a show in every way.

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[Aaron] You know, it looked like he just
rolled the balls out there

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and went out and played
is how he played.

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But he was calculated
in everything that he did

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and made it look easy.

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[announcer]
Behind his back. [shouting]

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[Larry] We'd have a play in,
and Allen would break the play.

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And all of a sudden,
I would look at our staff, and I'd say,

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"That's better than what we drew up."

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I can't tell you how many times
that happened.

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[announcer] Good play call by Larry Brown.

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[Allen] He just was a masterful coach.

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Billy King and Pat, they put them guys
around me

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that were willing to let me dominate.

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[announcer] Cranks his ankles,
and he's got it!

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[Aaron] He was a giant amongst giants.

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The little guy that the big guys
back then would dominate.

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[announcer] Oh! What a shot by Iverson.

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[Aaron] He'd be like, "Get me
that motherfucker right there.

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I got this motherfucker."

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[Allen] It was... [chuckles]

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It was basically,
"You kill like you kill..."

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[announcer] Yes! Oh, yes!

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"...and your deficiencies
and things that you can't do,

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we gonna do all of those things."

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[announcer] Here's Allen
for the tie... Yes!

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[David] Congratulations, 2001 NBA MVP

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Allen Iverson.

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[crowd cheering]

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[Allen] Right now, whenever people say

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I'm the best player
in the world,

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that's crazy. I was only 25.

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[Brandy] Seeing him hold that trophy up,
it was like me holding it up.

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The life that we knew once before that,
it was gone.

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[Ann] I brag on him because I never seen
nobody like him.

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I've never seen nobody get down
like him, you know what I'm saying?

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And I get so overwhelmed,
because it just was a beautiful thing

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to watch the crowd embrace him.

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Every time I come in the gym,
in this arena,

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I hear my favorite song in y'all's voices,

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so, it's time for y'all to play that song.

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Let's make this noise
and get this party jumping.

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[Tawanna]
2001, it was the most exciting time.

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[man] Allen and Stephon, slide back
just a little bit, if you could.

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-There we go. Thank you.
-Take my foot off my mark.

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[man] You're perfect. You're perfect.

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[Tawanna] Thinking back, it's like,
like you remember that feeling.

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You remember the feeling
of being at an Allen Iverson game,

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seeing him play, like,
you can't dismiss that.

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When you looked at
Allen Iverson, he was a culture changer.

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People that weren't interested
in basketball wanted to see this brother.

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I'm Allen Iverson
of the Philadelphia 76ers.

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[trills tongue]

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[Stephen] It wasn't Michael Jordan,

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it wasn't The Beatles,

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but it was pretty close.

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[reporter] When it comes to selling shoes,
Allen Iverson

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has proven to be "The Answer" for Reebok.

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[Que] We did not have to do anything
to make Allen cool.

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Like, Allen was gonna come make us cool.

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[reporter] The Iversen brand
is expected to rake in

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up to $150 million for Reebok
just this year.

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[Que] Because he was number-one pick,

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a point guard that
had the ball in his hand,

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because he could score,
had the heart of a warrior.

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[commentator] Allen, congratulations.
The MVP of the 2001 All-Star game.

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[Que] We knew men wanted to be like him,

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women wanted to be with him,

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the kids wanted to be him
at some point.

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[Todd] There was nothing like this.

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Everybody trying to meet him,
every rapper trying to meet him,

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every celebrity trying to meet him.

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Please welcome The Answer, Allen Iverson!

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[Que] When I was moving with him
at the time at the height of hip hop,

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you talk about the Biggies, the Jay-Zs,
and all those guys as they're on the rise,

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they were all looking up to him.

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Jay-Z, Pharrell, and 50 Cent
signed with Reebok,

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not because it's Reebok,

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they signed with Reebok because of what
we were doing with Allen Iverson.

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[Pharrell] A lot of things
going on in your life

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and you answer the question,
you become The Answer.

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Allen Iverson.

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You think you get a bad rap
just because you got cornrows?

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It's unfair, it's unfair, but it's true.

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People look at the way I dress,
who I hang around,

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the jewelry and everything...

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I mean, people try to make me
34 years old,

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and I'm only 24 years old.
I'm growing every day.

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[Ann] My son dressed the way he dressed
from where he from.

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Now he can get the fitted hats.

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Now he can get the jewelry
that he wanna get.

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[Allen] In my life, how you look
is how you play.

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I look like a superhero.

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A skinny one, but a superhero.

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Gotta have some style with you.

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[Stephen] Covering him was a separate beat
in and of itself.

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There was the Sixers beat, and then
there was the Allen Iverson beat.

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Because this brother's a nightcrawler.

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And everyone knew where he would be.

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[Eric] It was almost the same as Jay-Z
walking in the club,

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or Tupac walking in the club.
Allen Iverson was just as big.

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[Todd] But what that led to
was a hard, hard journey together.

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He used to say back in the day,
"It's hard working with Al, huh?"

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These people... Man, don't be
making me laugh.

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[Que] He was going out to LA
for one of these award shows,

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and Allen wanted the whole crew
to be fresh.

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I remember Allen buys all this jewelry,
whips out a checkbook,

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and writes a check for like 900 grand.
Something crazy like that.

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[Stephen] Allen Iverson
going home on time,

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and getting a good night's sleep
is when he was in a slump.

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It was when he was hanging out
until three or four in the morning

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that he dropped 58
on Steve Francis in Houston.

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[announcer] Yes! And a career high!

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That's just how his motor worked.

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You got a record company, right?

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I mean, I'm getting ready
to start one right now.

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[Que] Allen got into the music thing.

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His friends were the ones
that were really compelling him

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to start ABK Music Group.

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[Allen] That was something my homeboys
wanted to do.

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I want to see them come from nothing
to something like I did.

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[Que] I went on that journey with him,

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I was in the studio with him,

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I tried to make sure
he wasn't spending too much money.

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[Kendrick] Yeah, "Forty Bars."
There you go.

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It all represent the culture,
it just gave me

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a little bit more connection with AI.
Already loved him on the court.

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But now there's a person that
I can relate to further than basketball.

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If you're a hardcore hip-hop fan,
this album is for you.

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[show host] Basketball star Allen Iverson,

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his attempt to become a rap star
is drawing fire for some offensive lyrics.

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Allen Iverson, turning into a human
can of mace for sponsors

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and for this league.

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John Thompson better call Allen.

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I think he needs to speak to the brother.

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[Todd] That was one of the only things
I think we felt

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would be a problem, but he was learning.

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You can't satisfy everybody, man.

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There's gonna be a billion fans out here
that love Allen Iverson,

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there's gonna be a billion that hate him.

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[reporter] The rap songs
that he's out with,

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some of the lyrics to those songs,

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I mean, this isn't a very good
ambassadorship that you've got going here.

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Too hard to come out for real?
I would say yeah, because...

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Stern be the face of the league.

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[Allen] I walked in,
and David Stern was reading the lyrics.

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I was trying not to laugh,
because I knew how serious it was.

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It was a moment that I'll never forget.

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We would like our players to be perfect.

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We would like them to exhibit
no human characteristics, I suppose,

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so that they never get in trouble,

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but it's not going to happen.

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We must pay the price for failing
to meet people's expectations,

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and we are.

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[Sherri] I remember Chuck and Rahsaan,
I think they had signed a deal

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with Universal Records and then...

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they ain't get to put it out.
It was a bunch of BS behind it.

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Rahsaan was really hurt behind it.

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[Que] One of my conversations
with him, he said,

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"I play basketball, because I'm passionate
about basketball.

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I'm not playing basketball
because I wanna be an athlete.

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I'm not playing basketball
because I wanna be a rapper.

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I'm playing basketball, because I love
to play the game of basketball."

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If you don't care about
hardcore gangsta rap,

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just don't buy it.

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That's a character. That ain't me.
That ain't who I am.

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I'm embarrassed by that.

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[interviewer] Where do you wanna be
in five years?

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I wanna have a couple rings on my finger,

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hopefully be all-star.

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[interviewer] When this is all over,

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what do you want them to say
about Allen Iverson, the ball player?

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That he played every game
like it was his last.

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[Charlie Rose] The NBA playoffs
are in full swing

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with the Finals set to begin
next Wednesday in Los Angeles.

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The Lakers have swept their way
through the postseason

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with the unstoppable duo of Kobe Bryant
and Shaquille O'Neal.

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[reporter] No city has been hotter
over the last month.

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The Lakers have dominated
three 50-win teams

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during their march to the Finals.

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[Shaq] We're tired of being compared
to all of the other Laker teams.

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Let's just set a standard right now
of being the best Laker team ever.

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Only way we can do that
is to go undefeated.

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So going into the Finals,
we were undefeated.

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[announcer] Bryant to Shaq!

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Do you believe that the 76ers will meet
the Lakers in the Finals?

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Well, not yet, I don't. I really don't.

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They're so banged up, Charlie.

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[man] The Sixers have been playing
the role of underdog for a while now.

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The Vegas oddsmakers
have all got them to bury--

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[commentator 1] Indiana knocked Philly
out of the playoffs the last two years.

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[commentator 2] The Pacers seem to be
a bit of a thorn in Philly's side.

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[commentator 3] It's all
Philadelphia early.

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[announcer] Travis Best alone
with a shot. He's got 16 points.

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The Pacers have their first lead
of the game.

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Reggie for three.

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Miller, a break!

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Bang! Miller gives the Pacers a lead!

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[Allen] It was bad.
We lost that first game.

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We never could get past that team.

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[Reggie] I love this type of atmosphere.

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This is what makes
the great players great.

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And knowing that you've got a bullseye
on your back,

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and everyone's gunning for 31,

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and to come out and still do what we did,

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it shows a lot of character
for this young team.

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[Allen] You know, everybody was down
in the locker room.

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Forget what just happened.

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Let's just go from here on out.

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[Allen] But we still had to concentrate
on the agenda at hand,

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and that was winning the series.

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[Larry] In order for him to be
as great as he could become,

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he had to make
everybody around him better.

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[announcer] Allen saying, "I have come
to learn that I can't do this by myself."

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[Larry] Because all the eyes
were focused on him,

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and we all followed his lead,

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we would just add in pieces
that maybe people wouldn't look at

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and think that they were
super extraordinary,

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but they were in their own right
because they allowed Allen to be Allen.

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[Allen] We won the next game,
we got our confidence back,

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we went in there and we won
two more games.

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[announcer] It is all over!

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The Philadelphia 76ers,
in a very tough ball game,

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have defeated the Indiana Pacers!

301
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[Allen] Beating that team helped us,

302
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because we felt like,
if we can beat Indiana,

303
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we can get to the Finals.
We felt like we could beat anybody.

304
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I love you with so much heart,
I pass it on to you babies.

305
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You did all right.

306
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[Larry] There was nobody bigger
or more important than Allen Iverson.

307
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You look at Duncan and Barkley
and Shaq and all those guys,

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people recognize they're big,
they're strong, they're athletic.

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You look at Allen, he's like one of us.

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He was a hero for everybody.

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[announcer] Iverson off a series of moves!

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[commentator] If the little guy can do it,
hey, I can do it.

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[announcer] Iverson!

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Carter again for three.
Man, he can't miss!

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It's all Vince Carter!

316
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And Carter with the shot!
Carter with the tip!

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The Toronto Raptors,

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after stunning the New York Knicks
Friday night at Madison Square Garden,

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defeat the Philadelphia 76ers in Game One.

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[reporter] He was taking you to town
and you guys couldn't stop him.

321
00:17:29,257 --> 00:17:32,051
Right. You saw the game
just like everybody else.

322
00:17:32,886 --> 00:17:35,263
You right, I mean... ask a question.

323
00:17:35,346 --> 00:17:36,931
You saw that, I saw that...

324
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[interviewer] Is there a way to stop him?

325
00:17:38,391 --> 00:17:40,560
No, man. If there was, we would've did it.

326
00:17:42,312 --> 00:17:45,356
I can tell when somebody is scared of me.
Their eyes never lie.

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You can't teach this.

328
00:17:46,691 --> 00:17:49,277
Before the tip-off,
I would look at my opponent.

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And as soon as he turned his head,
got his ass.

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[Allen] That's what killers do.
That's what killers do.

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[announcer] Iverson against
Williams again! Yes!

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[Allen] I just knew anybody guarding me
was at my mercy.

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[announcer] The crowd is yelling MVP.

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Iverson now with 20.

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[Allen] I wasn't scared
of nobody out there.

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I'm going by you all day.

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[announcer] Allen for the record! Yes!

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Fifty-two points for Iverson!

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A record for a 76er in a playoff game!

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[Allen] Seems like every time
I don't play the way I wanna play,

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there's always a name
that somebody throw out

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of this guy that can guard you.

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The only person that can stop me
is myself.

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[Vince] He brought the best out of me.

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I figured, if I put up 40,
then he puts up 54,

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I gotta respond.

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[Stephen Smith] It was one after another,
one after another,

348
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it was like they were taking turns.

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[announcer]
Seemed like a bad shot to me.

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But Vince is there--
Oh, my-- Holy mackerel!

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With his eighth three-pointer in a row!

352
00:19:05,728 --> 00:19:09,774
Man, if you can't get going in this type
of game, there's a problem, man.

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[Pat] I think Allen's taught Larry
a lot about how to relate to people,

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00:19:16,573 --> 00:19:19,409
and Larry Brown has taught Allen
about responsibility

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and how to make your teammates better.

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00:19:23,079 --> 00:19:26,332
[announcer] Curry did not wanna
handle the ball and that cost!

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Sixers by one, but the Raptors
with the ball, two seconds to go.

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Carter trying to get free.

359
00:19:32,088 --> 00:19:35,008
Carter at the buzzer! No go!

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And the Sixers hold on and advance
to the conference finals!

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[reporter] What does it say
about this team

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that they've been able to come back
like this and win this series?

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That we're a team! You know,
we're a team, as simple as that.

364
00:20:00,867 --> 00:20:03,161
You know, it don't get no better
than this, you know?

365
00:20:03,244 --> 00:20:06,372
In the locker room, outside
of the locker room, we always a team.

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00:20:06,456 --> 00:20:07,957
We always look out for each other,

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00:20:08,041 --> 00:20:09,918
we always do a lot of things
with each other,

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00:20:10,001 --> 00:20:12,712
we're a team! For the first time
in my life, I'm on a team.

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00:20:14,505 --> 00:20:16,507
The Answer's in the building.

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00:20:17,216 --> 00:20:19,802
-Who the hell is The Answer?
-I don't know.

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00:20:20,970 --> 00:20:26,309
[Pat] After Toronto, the team
is beat up, but excited.

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[Allen] You know, you can try
to bang me around.

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I get back up,
you still gotta deal with me.

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00:20:33,066 --> 00:20:38,071
[Pat] He had a quarterback mentality.
Knock him down, get up.

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00:20:38,154 --> 00:20:41,199
Knock him down, get up.
He was like a Japanese proverb.

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Fall down seven times, get up eight.

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[commentator] And Iverson
comes crashing to the floor.

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00:20:52,377 --> 00:20:54,128
And then...

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[commentator] Allen Iverson,
as Healy mentioned,

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you gotta wonder about his health,

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00:20:58,216 --> 00:21:03,596
as he scores only 16 points
on five of 26 from the field.

382
00:21:04,764 --> 00:21:08,851
Pain is inevitable. It was amazing
the courage it took for him to get up.

383
00:21:09,519 --> 00:21:11,479
Day after day, game in, game out.

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You can talk about him scoring 50,

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00:21:14,399 --> 00:21:16,484
but who else is getting confidence
out there?

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[Allen] I can heal up tomorrow,

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00:21:18,903 --> 00:21:21,155
but today, my dogs need me.

388
00:21:21,239 --> 00:21:24,993
[Sal] A badly bruised tailbone,
a sprained hip, a tooth knocked out,

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with blood spewing on the floor.

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00:21:27,245 --> 00:21:32,000
Through it all, Allen Iverson,
at 160 pounds, may have proven that

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pound for pound, he's the toughest guy
in professional sports.

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[announcer] The Sixers have found life
here in the fourth quarter.

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[announcer] Iverson unloads. [shouting]
Touchdown!

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[announcer] When you
come to L.A.-- Iverson!

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[Ann] He played every day
like his last.

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[Larry Brown] God gave him
an unbelievable heart

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and unbelievable threshold for pain.

398
00:21:58,067 --> 00:22:00,361
[Michael] He's trippin', "Dad, I'm hurting
like I don't know what."

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00:22:01,195 --> 00:22:02,405
I said, "Well, man, sit down."

400
00:22:02,488 --> 00:22:04,449
He's like, "I can't. We won't win."

401
00:22:05,616 --> 00:22:06,576
We won't win.

402
00:22:10,580 --> 00:22:12,874
That "fall and get back up" shit,

403
00:22:12,957 --> 00:22:15,293
man, that's been big
from School Garden, man.

404
00:22:17,545 --> 00:22:20,882
[commentator] The smallest guy on
the court has played the biggest of games.

405
00:22:20,965 --> 00:22:23,885
And that's what the MVP is all about.

406
00:22:24,469 --> 00:22:26,012
What a player.

407
00:22:27,847 --> 00:22:30,016
And for the first time in 18 years,

408
00:22:30,099 --> 00:22:33,311
the Sixers are going back
to the NBA Finals!

409
00:22:36,314 --> 00:22:38,733
Hey, yo, man.
Y'all boy's ain't no joke!

410
00:22:38,816 --> 00:22:39,859
I love y'all, man!

411
00:22:39,942 --> 00:22:41,778
Yo, yo, yo, yo!

412
00:22:41,861 --> 00:22:43,154
Let's go, first time, man.

413
00:22:43,237 --> 00:22:44,572
Let's make it a good one.

414
00:22:44,655 --> 00:22:47,533
[overlapping chatter]

415
00:22:47,617 --> 00:22:48,618
One, two, three.

416
00:22:48,701 --> 00:22:51,204
Playoffs! [cheering]

417
00:22:51,829 --> 00:22:55,917
[commentator] The Sixers are 20-to-1
underdogs, longshots to win the title.

418
00:22:56,000 --> 00:22:58,628
It's the largest spread ever
in an NBA Finals

419
00:22:58,711 --> 00:23:01,798
and one of the biggest in the history
of the four major sports.

420
00:23:02,507 --> 00:23:07,678
[Pat?] It was a David versus Goliath,
but the whole city's hanging Sixers--

421
00:23:07,762 --> 00:23:10,056
They weren't even basketball fans,
some Philadelphia people,

422
00:23:10,139 --> 00:23:11,599
but they had Sixers stuff.

423
00:23:11,682 --> 00:23:13,935
[butcher] All our customers,
that's all they talk about is Iverson.

424
00:23:14,602 --> 00:23:17,438
When they talk Sixers,
it's A.I., and that's it.

425
00:23:17,939 --> 00:23:20,858
Whenever our energy was low,
he always had that.

426
00:23:23,236 --> 00:23:24,654
When he came in that locker room,

427
00:23:24,737 --> 00:23:26,531
when he stepped out on that floor,

428
00:23:26,614 --> 00:23:27,990
everybody just followed.

429
00:23:28,866 --> 00:23:31,410
[reporter] Larry Brown finds his team
in these Finals

430
00:23:31,494 --> 00:23:35,081
with a shuffled starting lineup,
a dangerous lack of depth,

431
00:23:35,164 --> 00:23:37,667
and just one legitimate scoring threat.

432
00:23:38,209 --> 00:23:41,587
You know, a lot of people felt like
I couldn't reach this point.

433
00:23:42,171 --> 00:23:43,881
They would talk about my size...

434
00:23:43,965 --> 00:23:45,633
...my game.

435
00:23:45,716 --> 00:23:47,260
That I was selfish...

436
00:23:47,343 --> 00:23:48,886
and I couldn't make it here
with the guys

437
00:23:48,970 --> 00:23:50,429
that I'm playing with.

438
00:23:50,513 --> 00:23:52,765
[Allen] And now that we're here,
we're gonna get swept.

439
00:23:53,266 --> 00:23:56,894
It just, you know, makes the story
that much better at the end.

440
00:23:56,978 --> 00:23:58,521
[commentator] It's a perfect series,
because you--

441
00:23:58,604 --> 00:24:00,273
It's David and Goliath in part,

442
00:24:00,356 --> 00:24:03,067
but you also have Allen Iverson,
and he's showing more heart--

443
00:24:03,151 --> 00:24:05,611
I mean, I don't care how rich you are,
how successful you are,

444
00:24:05,695 --> 00:24:07,488
you need to look at
this young man and say,

445
00:24:07,572 --> 00:24:09,824
"This is what it is
to have a warrior's heart.

446
00:24:09,907 --> 00:24:16,080
This is what it is to care about winning
in the most positive way."

447
00:24:16,164 --> 00:24:20,251
All I care about is a championship trophy.
I just want it so bad,

448
00:24:20,334 --> 00:24:24,922
for myself, for my teammates,
for my family, my friends, my coach.

449
00:24:25,006 --> 00:24:26,674
-My coach is--
-Are you gonna dethrone

450
00:24:26,757 --> 00:24:27,842
the Los Angeles Lakers?

451
00:24:27,925 --> 00:24:30,011
Hopefully. That's the way
I draw it up in my dreams.

452
00:24:30,094 --> 00:24:32,305
-Yeah, you're supposed to do that.
-[commentator] I like your dream.

453
00:24:32,388 --> 00:24:33,764
-That's where I draw it up.
-[commentator] O'Neal?

454
00:24:33,848 --> 00:24:35,057
But you know what, my dream

455
00:24:35,141 --> 00:24:36,434
-is the same thing, so.
-Yeah.

456
00:24:36,517 --> 00:24:39,061
[Allen] Regardless if it's a pick-up game,

457
00:24:39,145 --> 00:24:43,816
pre-season game, if it's regular season,
if it's playoffs, if it's Finals,

458
00:24:43,900 --> 00:24:45,401
you know, I play the same way.

459
00:24:45,484 --> 00:24:46,819
[player chatter]

460
00:24:48,529 --> 00:24:50,781
[Allen]
I just felt like I was Goliath.

461
00:24:51,991 --> 00:24:55,912
I never felt David. I never felt that.

462
00:25:01,959 --> 00:25:04,045
-Oh, yeah.
-[crew person] Sound speed, we good?

463
00:25:04,128 --> 00:25:06,589
I ain't looking at the camera,
I'm looking at Shaq.

464
00:25:07,548 --> 00:25:10,051
You're stupid. [snickers]

465
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:12,970
We wanted to go undefeated.

466
00:25:13,054 --> 00:25:16,182
We knew you were gonna get 30,
never knew you were gonna get 48.

467
00:25:16,265 --> 00:25:19,435
["Grindin'" by Clipse plays]

468
00:25:41,749 --> 00:25:44,543
[Ann] The best I ever seem 'em play
as a team,

469
00:25:44,627 --> 00:25:46,212
when they played against the Lakers.

470
00:25:46,295 --> 00:25:48,589
They came to fucking play.

471
00:25:48,673 --> 00:25:53,010
When I say the Sixers
were eating their ass up,

472
00:25:53,094 --> 00:25:54,804
they were eating their ass up.

473
00:25:54,887 --> 00:25:57,056
[Aaron] Allen was making a name
for himself.

474
00:25:57,139 --> 00:25:59,809
[announcer] Here's Iverson.
Lue defender.

475
00:25:59,892 --> 00:26:02,728
Stays right with him. Allen wants to go.
Watch the baseline.

476
00:26:02,812 --> 00:26:06,274
[announcer 2] He fires two ball--
He got it again! He's way too good!

477
00:26:06,357 --> 00:26:08,776
He stumps around Lue! That drilled it!

478
00:26:08,859 --> 00:26:13,990
[announcer] 76ers on their way
to pulling off a stump!

479
00:26:16,534 --> 00:26:18,703
[Shaq] The way I figured, they beat us,

480
00:26:18,786 --> 00:26:21,038
said, okay, man, just told us to be quiet.

481
00:26:21,122 --> 00:26:23,165
We could hear y'all
jumping up and down happy.

482
00:26:23,249 --> 00:26:25,084
"Ah, yeah! We got Game One."

483
00:26:25,167 --> 00:26:26,877
Now we knew we just had to get refocused.

484
00:26:26,961 --> 00:26:30,506
I ain't let them overreact.
I ain't let anybody overreact.

485
00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:32,216
-I know, I mean, but--
-[Allen] I ain't let it--

486
00:26:32,300 --> 00:26:33,884
-There was some noise when I walked in.
-[Shaq] Yes.

487
00:26:33,968 --> 00:26:35,970
And that shit calmed down
once I got in there.

488
00:26:36,053 --> 00:26:38,597
We didn't do nothing yet.
We got a long way to go.

489
00:26:38,681 --> 00:26:40,266
We got a long way to go.

490
00:26:40,349 --> 00:26:42,184
They can put their brooms up though.

491
00:26:42,268 --> 00:26:43,978
Ain't gonna be none of that.

492
00:26:44,061 --> 00:26:46,022
That's us, man. We came too far, man.

493
00:26:46,105 --> 00:26:47,023
That's us, baby.

494
00:26:47,106 --> 00:26:50,526
[Allen] 'Cause it ain't-- we're playin'
against a juggernaut, man.

495
00:26:52,570 --> 00:26:55,448
We ain't win nothing, man.
We've got a long ways to go.

496
00:26:55,531 --> 00:27:00,286
These dudes did not lose
one fucking game in the playoffs, bruh.

497
00:27:00,369 --> 00:27:03,497
[Shaq] You know, we are not gonna go
make excuses for this loss.

498
00:27:03,581 --> 00:27:06,042
Allen Iverson is a great player.
You know, he had a great game.

499
00:27:06,125 --> 00:27:08,878
I don't care. I really don't.

500
00:27:08,961 --> 00:27:12,048
You know, I'm-- we're here,
we're the world champions,

501
00:27:12,131 --> 00:27:15,634
and no matter how inspired
your team may be,

502
00:27:16,427 --> 00:27:18,971
the championship has to come through
the city of Los Angeles.

503
00:27:19,055 --> 00:27:23,225
After Game One, our secret weapons were

504
00:27:23,309 --> 00:27:26,145
we were pissed off.
It's time for you to die.

505
00:27:27,021 --> 00:27:28,689
[announcer] He is a force.

506
00:27:28,773 --> 00:27:31,734
[Shaq] For us to be
one of the greatest Laker teams

507
00:27:31,817 --> 00:27:32,818
doesn't sit well with me.

508
00:27:32,902 --> 00:27:35,363
I knew we were gonna win.
We just needed to take care of business.

509
00:27:35,446 --> 00:27:37,365
[announcer] Nice shot by Kobe Bryant!

510
00:27:37,448 --> 00:27:40,201
[commentator] Look at Iverson and Kobe
talking to each other right now.

511
00:27:40,284 --> 00:27:42,203
[Allen] What killed us was that three

512
00:27:42,286 --> 00:27:45,623
that Derek Fisher hit on me in Game Two.

513
00:27:45,706 --> 00:27:47,833
[announcer] Fisher for three!

514
00:27:48,709 --> 00:27:50,628
[Larry] Calm down, guys.
Ball at the wrong man.

515
00:27:50,711 --> 00:27:51,962
They're supposed to win.

516
00:27:52,046 --> 00:27:54,006
We ain't even supposed to be here!

517
00:27:54,090 --> 00:27:57,510
I think if we won Game Two,
then we got a better shot.

518
00:27:59,804 --> 00:28:02,807
As great as Kobe was,

519
00:28:02,890 --> 00:28:04,266
one man beat us.

520
00:28:04,350 --> 00:28:09,647
We was trying to play you head up,
and that ain't it.

521
00:28:10,147 --> 00:28:14,360
When you played against Shaq,
you needed 18 fouls.

522
00:28:15,861 --> 00:28:17,238
And we had Dikembe,

523
00:28:17,863 --> 00:28:20,408
we would've had Geiger,
but he wasn't himself,

524
00:28:20,491 --> 00:28:22,493
and we didn't have the 18 fouls.

525
00:28:30,292 --> 00:28:33,462
[announcer] Time has run out
on the 76ers.

526
00:28:33,546 --> 00:28:36,966
[announcer 2] Back-to-back titles
for the Los Angeles Lakers.

527
00:28:39,510 --> 00:28:42,430
[Allen] It's over, and then
when you reminisce,

528
00:28:43,431 --> 00:28:47,476
it's like, the ultimate goal

529
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,478
wasn't achieved.

530
00:28:49,562 --> 00:28:52,106
I been in that position, too.
Trust me.

531
00:28:53,482 --> 00:28:56,527
That shit was heartbreaking.
You ain't shit.

532
00:29:00,030 --> 00:29:04,660
[Larry] That 2001 team will go down
in history as the most beloved team

533
00:29:04,743 --> 00:29:05,744
in Philadelphia history.

534
00:29:05,828 --> 00:29:07,288
They didn't win the championship,

535
00:29:07,371 --> 00:29:11,709
but this city was so in love with Iverson,

536
00:29:11,792 --> 00:29:14,420
and so in love with the other players,

537
00:29:14,503 --> 00:29:16,338
that it almost didn't matter.

538
00:29:16,839 --> 00:29:17,923
[Shaq] So as a player,

539
00:29:18,007 --> 00:29:21,218
he's one of the greatest players
to ever play the game.

540
00:29:21,802 --> 00:29:24,930
When it comes to a championship,
you have to be on a great team.

541
00:29:25,014 --> 00:29:27,975
No disrespect
to the Philadelphia 76ers team,

542
00:29:28,058 --> 00:29:30,186
Allen Iverson was by hisself.

543
00:29:30,269 --> 00:29:32,188
So when it comes to status
and recognition,

544
00:29:32,271 --> 00:29:35,608
there's a lot of champions that
we don't even know who they are.

545
00:29:35,691 --> 00:29:38,694
But I guarantee you know
who Allen Iverson is.

546
00:29:38,777 --> 00:29:41,238
Iverson is one of the greatest players
to ever play the game.

547
00:29:41,322 --> 00:29:42,656
-He's in the top five.
-Ever?

548
00:29:42,740 --> 00:29:45,242
Ever. He's in the top five.

549
00:29:45,326 --> 00:29:47,786
And the reason why I say that is because
he's probably the only guy

550
00:29:47,870 --> 00:29:50,080
that takes a beating like I do.

551
00:29:50,539 --> 00:29:52,917
[Allen] 2001.
It was a wild summer.

552
00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,710
It was a great summer.

553
00:29:55,753 --> 00:29:58,631
This my place, man.
This, this where I can breathe at.

554
00:29:58,714 --> 00:30:02,510
Get away from the fake
superstar life, man. Come on back home.

555
00:30:02,593 --> 00:30:06,514
Around the people, man.
Start feeling like Allen Iverson, man.

556
00:30:06,597 --> 00:30:08,724
You know, the real Allen Iverson.

557
00:30:09,725 --> 00:30:13,145
We actually were engaged
for two, three years.

558
00:30:13,229 --> 00:30:15,564
[Allen] That's my girl, for life.

559
00:30:15,648 --> 00:30:17,608
[Tawanna]
So the proposal was pretty simple.

560
00:30:17,691 --> 00:30:19,568
He asked me in the kitchen.

561
00:30:19,652 --> 00:30:20,694
[interviewer]
Did he get down on his knee?

562
00:30:20,778 --> 00:30:22,947
No. [laughs]

563
00:30:23,030 --> 00:30:23,989
No!

564
00:30:24,073 --> 00:30:25,783
I mean, it wasn't--
You know what?

565
00:30:25,866 --> 00:30:29,328
You're gonna make me go back
and make him do it. [laughs]

566
00:30:29,411 --> 00:30:32,248
[Brandy] He always said
from high school,

567
00:30:32,331 --> 00:30:34,833
he wanted to take care of her
for the rest of his life.

568
00:30:35,918 --> 00:30:39,505
[Allen] God talking to me,
love that I got for her.

569
00:30:40,923 --> 00:30:42,883
A'ight, man, it's time.

570
00:30:45,678 --> 00:30:48,180
[Sherri]
Rahsaan was in the wedding.

571
00:30:48,264 --> 00:30:51,934
It was on the dance floor dancing
and having their moments.

572
00:30:52,893 --> 00:30:55,020
[Antwuan] I know he was just happy,
you know, just happy

573
00:30:55,104 --> 00:30:56,647
to go ahead and get married

574
00:30:56,730 --> 00:30:58,607
in a goddamn beautiful wedding.

575
00:31:03,821 --> 00:31:05,990
[Tawanna]
Yeah, we had a great time. [laughs]

576
00:31:07,616 --> 00:31:10,452
[Allen] One of the happiest moments
of my life.

577
00:31:13,247 --> 00:31:15,291
[Sherri] We went
to the Grand Cayman Island.

578
00:31:15,374 --> 00:31:18,419
It was me, Chuck, Rahsaan, Tawanna,
Que, and Que wife.

579
00:31:19,044 --> 00:31:22,423
You cannot get Allen
to move out of his comfort zone.

580
00:31:22,506 --> 00:31:25,301
So I felt like,
if we take other couples

581
00:31:25,384 --> 00:31:30,014
on our honeymoon, he'd be more open
to do things that he's never done.

582
00:31:31,223 --> 00:31:33,517
I was right. It was things
he didn't want to do,

583
00:31:33,601 --> 00:31:35,728
like, um, scuba diving.

584
00:31:35,811 --> 00:31:38,856
Then I had Que and Ra
there to say,

585
00:31:38,939 --> 00:31:40,983
"Come on, Chuck, let's do it."

586
00:31:41,066 --> 00:31:44,653
I got him to do some things. [laughs]

587
00:31:44,737 --> 00:31:46,864
[Allen] When I come home,
I can get my head right.

588
00:31:46,947 --> 00:31:49,992
I can relax and see the people that,
you know, I grew up with and everything.

589
00:31:50,075 --> 00:31:51,118
Makes me feel good.

590
00:31:51,201 --> 00:31:52,620
CT, baby, right here.

591
00:31:52,703 --> 00:31:54,955
-CT. How you doing...
-Ra, listen, baby. Ra, listen, baby...

592
00:31:55,039 --> 00:31:56,206
[overlapping chatter]

593
00:31:56,290 --> 00:32:00,169
Allen Iverson will be lacing them up
with Reebok for the rest of his life.

594
00:32:00,753 --> 00:32:04,465
It's a privilege to give you a gift
that we had created for you.

595
00:32:04,548 --> 00:32:06,050
We had it made, and as you can see,

596
00:32:06,133 --> 00:32:08,177
"MVP 2000, 2001."

597
00:32:08,260 --> 00:32:10,804
[Que] There had been some conversations
amongst the media,

598
00:32:10,888 --> 00:32:13,807
where they talk about Black athletes
going broke.

599
00:32:14,391 --> 00:32:16,727
Having conversations with Paul Fireman,

600
00:32:16,810 --> 00:32:19,313
in order for us
to protect him from himself,

601
00:32:19,396 --> 00:32:22,191
we should find ways
to help defer some of that money.

602
00:32:22,274 --> 00:32:24,735
I said, maybe we should set up a trust.

603
00:32:24,818 --> 00:32:28,113
I kind of didn't expect it,
but I was hoping for it to go this way.

604
00:32:28,197 --> 00:32:30,491
You know, I'm just... I'm satisfied.

605
00:32:30,574 --> 00:32:33,744
All these kids that feel like
if things not going right for 'em,

606
00:32:33,827 --> 00:32:34,912
not to give up.

607
00:32:36,121 --> 00:32:38,999
Just keep going. Whatever happens,
you just keep fighting, man.

608
00:32:39,083 --> 00:32:39,958
Only the strong survive.

609
00:32:40,042 --> 00:32:41,794
[gunshots]

610
00:32:52,054 --> 00:32:53,931
[Sherri] The last time he got in a car
was with me,

611
00:32:54,014 --> 00:32:57,351
and I dropped him off at a bar
over town on 28th Street.

612
00:32:57,434 --> 00:33:00,896
[Allen] We were supposed to go to a--
I think it was Hampton University

613
00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:04,650
against Norfolk State,
for some reason, I didn't go.

614
00:33:04,733 --> 00:33:06,527
[Sherri] And my little sister
answered the phone.

615
00:33:06,610 --> 00:33:08,612
I was like, "Where Mama at?"
And she was like, "She left."

616
00:33:08,696 --> 00:33:10,656
I said, "What happened? What's wrong?"

617
00:33:10,739 --> 00:33:13,158
She was like, "I think Ra got killed."

618
00:33:14,952 --> 00:33:19,998
And I threw a basketball against the wall,
and I just started crying.

619
00:33:24,378 --> 00:33:27,464
[Jabar] I was staying with my coach,
and my mom called me.

620
00:33:27,923 --> 00:33:29,216
It was like three in the morning.

621
00:33:29,299 --> 00:33:30,634
She said...

622
00:33:34,847 --> 00:33:36,265
She said, "Your brother gone."

623
00:33:36,348 --> 00:33:40,853
So like I said, automatically I thought,
did he kill somebody and get locked up?

624
00:33:42,479 --> 00:33:43,897
Or did something happen to him?

625
00:33:45,232 --> 00:33:46,066
And then...

626
00:33:50,362 --> 00:33:52,740
[Tawanna]
I will never forget that morning.

627
00:33:52,823 --> 00:33:57,035
Like, his manager at the time
called me...

628
00:33:57,828 --> 00:34:00,122
and, um... told me...

629
00:34:00,831 --> 00:34:02,916
"Tell Chuck Ra's dead."

630
00:34:03,625 --> 00:34:05,002
And I...

631
00:34:06,420 --> 00:34:09,590
I said, "I'm not telling him
no shit like that."

632
00:34:09,672 --> 00:34:11,675
I just handed him the phone,
you know,

633
00:34:11,759 --> 00:34:13,719
I just... I just handed him the phone,

634
00:34:13,802 --> 00:34:16,388
because I couldn't bring myself
to just... to let him know,

635
00:34:16,472 --> 00:34:17,889
to... I couldn't say it.

636
00:34:20,768 --> 00:34:22,811
[Allen] That was a wake-up call for me.

637
00:34:22,895 --> 00:34:23,728
It was...

638
00:34:25,731 --> 00:34:28,609
if not the worst pain
that I've been through

639
00:34:28,692 --> 00:34:31,945
in my life losing somebody,
it was right up there at the top.

640
00:34:32,946 --> 00:34:34,364
Allen's heart was hurt

641
00:34:34,947 --> 00:34:37,074
by the loss of Ra. Uh...

642
00:34:39,036 --> 00:34:40,704
[sighs]

643
00:34:40,788 --> 00:34:41,789
He...

644
00:34:44,416 --> 00:34:46,668
Like at his funeral,
like he lost...

645
00:34:48,837 --> 00:34:50,255
his... [sighs]

646
00:34:51,005 --> 00:34:52,299
Like he, um...

647
00:34:52,382 --> 00:34:55,010
Like, his legs went out
from under him, like you know...

648
00:34:55,092 --> 00:34:57,596
he had to be held up.

649
00:35:00,265 --> 00:35:01,725
[Allen]
I mean, that was my buddy, you know?

650
00:35:01,809 --> 00:35:04,686
I mean, we slept
on the same floor together.

651
00:35:06,563 --> 00:35:09,149
He was my man. He meant so much,

652
00:35:09,233 --> 00:35:13,529
and then for that to happen,
I counted Sherri's life

653
00:35:13,612 --> 00:35:15,072
a little bit more.

654
00:35:15,155 --> 00:35:20,369
Like, I concentrated on things
that I didn't concentrate on as much.

655
00:35:20,452 --> 00:35:25,374
Just valuing anything that's mine,
you know? Anything that I loved.

656
00:35:25,457 --> 00:35:27,459
I remember when all people
could talk about

657
00:35:27,543 --> 00:35:29,753
is my friend and how
they were bringing me down.

658
00:35:29,837 --> 00:35:33,590
And now, I just wish he could be around
for people to talk about him,

659
00:35:33,674 --> 00:35:36,510
and talk about him
bringing me down, you know?

660
00:35:36,593 --> 00:35:39,763
But he never did, you know?
Somebody brought him down.

661
00:35:39,847 --> 00:35:42,307
My man Ra Boogie Fresh,
rest in peace, baby.

662
00:35:42,891 --> 00:35:45,185
[Allen]
Myself and everybody that loved him,

663
00:35:45,269 --> 00:35:46,603
we're scarred for life.

664
00:35:55,028 --> 00:35:57,489
[reporter] Allen Iverson won
his second straight scoring title,

665
00:35:57,573 --> 00:35:58,907
his third in four seasons.

666
00:35:58,991 --> 00:36:01,034
He averaged 31.4 points a game.

667
00:36:01,118 --> 00:36:03,537
Iverson's just the 7th player
in NBA history

668
00:36:03,620 --> 00:36:06,290
to win the scoring title three times
in his career.

669
00:36:07,749 --> 00:36:10,794
-[whistle blows]
-[cheering]

670
00:36:16,508 --> 00:36:20,512
[Allen] The next season, my family and I
had been going through

671
00:36:20,596 --> 00:36:23,724
a whole bunch of shit
about me being traded.

672
00:36:23,807 --> 00:36:25,726
I wanna be right here where I'm at,

673
00:36:25,809 --> 00:36:28,312
where people love me,
and I love these people.

674
00:36:28,395 --> 00:36:32,357
[Tawanna] I think he felt offended,
like, "This is what I do for you,

675
00:36:32,941 --> 00:36:35,694
and now, you wanna get rid of me."

676
00:36:35,777 --> 00:36:40,824
[Allen]
So, Coach and General Manager called me.

677
00:36:40,908 --> 00:36:45,203
[Larry Brown] I met Allen, you know,
at the practice facility,

678
00:36:45,287 --> 00:36:47,664
and all he wanted to talk to me about was,

679
00:36:48,373 --> 00:36:52,210
"Please make sure you keep me here.
I wanna be here,

680
00:36:52,294 --> 00:36:56,381
I wanna play in Philly, I love Philly,
I don't wanna play anywhere else."

681
00:36:56,465 --> 00:36:58,926
My conversation with him is,

682
00:36:59,384 --> 00:37:02,387
"You know, Allen, you gotta change."

683
00:37:03,347 --> 00:37:07,684
If you could just spend more time
working on your craft,

684
00:37:07,768 --> 00:37:11,688
you could help us maybe take it
to the next level.

685
00:37:12,648 --> 00:37:15,484
[Allen] We discussed the fact
that I wasn't gonna get traded,

686
00:37:15,567 --> 00:37:21,865
so I was happy I was able to go
tell my kids, tell my wife,

687
00:37:21,949 --> 00:37:25,702
tell my friends, tell my fans,
that it wasn't gonna happen.

688
00:37:25,786 --> 00:37:27,245
Got to the press conference,

689
00:37:27,329 --> 00:37:31,041
thought that was all it was gonna
be about, was announcing it.

690
00:37:31,124 --> 00:37:35,504
And they got talking about practice,
and the legendary shit happened.

691
00:37:35,587 --> 00:37:37,756
[reporter] So you and Coach Brown
settled the issue

692
00:37:37,839 --> 00:37:40,217
that he brought up on Saturday
about practice?

693
00:37:40,884 --> 00:37:42,678
If I can't practice,
I can't practice, man.

694
00:37:42,761 --> 00:37:44,137
If I'm hurt, I'm hurt.

695
00:37:46,139 --> 00:37:49,142
I mean, simple as that.

696
00:37:49,559 --> 00:37:51,228
It ain't about that.

697
00:37:52,312 --> 00:37:53,146
It isn't...

698
00:37:53,772 --> 00:37:56,233
It's not about that at all,
you know what I'm saying?

699
00:37:56,316 --> 00:37:57,150
I mean...

700
00:37:58,110 --> 00:38:03,198
But it's easy to talk about,
it's easy to sum it up

701
00:38:03,281 --> 00:38:04,616
when you just talk about practice.

702
00:38:04,700 --> 00:38:07,327
We sitting here, I'm supposed to be
the franchise player,

703
00:38:07,411 --> 00:38:09,287
and we in here talking about practice.

704
00:38:10,205 --> 00:38:13,083
I mean, listen, we talking about practice.

705
00:38:13,166 --> 00:38:16,044
Not a game, not a game, not a game,

706
00:38:16,128 --> 00:38:18,213
we talking about practice.

707
00:38:19,840 --> 00:38:24,928
I felt sadness for him, like how
the world was making him out to be.

708
00:38:25,012 --> 00:38:27,180
I knew it was so much more going on.

709
00:38:27,264 --> 00:38:28,724
I lost my best friend.

710
00:38:29,599 --> 00:38:33,020
I lost him, and I lost this year.

711
00:38:33,103 --> 00:38:37,399
Everything's going downhill for me,
as far as just that, you know?

712
00:38:37,482 --> 00:38:38,650
As far as my life.

713
00:38:38,734 --> 00:38:40,819
And then I'm dealing with this right here.

714
00:38:41,403 --> 00:38:45,032
[Stephen] He was sickened,
but you still got a job to do.

715
00:38:45,115 --> 00:38:48,076
To Allen Iverson,
the job was the games.

716
00:38:48,160 --> 00:38:50,704
The job didn't always entail practice,

717
00:38:50,787 --> 00:38:52,706
it didn't entail some of the minutia

718
00:38:52,789 --> 00:38:55,917
that comes along
with your professional responsibilities.

719
00:38:56,001 --> 00:38:57,919
I can't win 'em all. I'm human.

720
00:38:58,003 --> 00:39:00,756
I'm just like y'all, man.
I'm just like you.

721
00:39:02,132 --> 00:39:04,009
[Jabar] My brother was the glue.

722
00:39:04,092 --> 00:39:06,428
So now, it was like unorganized,

723
00:39:06,511 --> 00:39:09,097
like, you know what I mean?
Nobody's setting the tone no more.

724
00:39:09,181 --> 00:39:11,058
Something was about to start for him.

725
00:39:11,141 --> 00:39:15,062
So, you know, he used to
hanging out with my brother.

726
00:39:15,145 --> 00:39:17,189
So probably all that was hitting him.

727
00:39:18,315 --> 00:39:21,485
You bleed, just like I bleed.
You cry just like I cry.

728
00:39:21,568 --> 00:39:25,113
You hurt just like I hurt.
I ain't no different than you.

729
00:39:25,906 --> 00:39:28,241
[Stephen] Ra was a special brother, man.

730
00:39:28,325 --> 00:39:33,371
When he passed away, he wasn't himself.
You could see that a part of him had died.

731
00:39:33,455 --> 00:39:36,917
The ferve, the enthusiasm,

732
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,795
that you have towards life

733
00:39:39,878 --> 00:39:41,546
is compromised.

734
00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:49,137
[Larry] In 2003, right after
Jordan retired,

735
00:39:50,222 --> 00:39:53,225
the ratings tanked, and the league
was going through changes.

736
00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:59,773
A new anti-hero generation
was inheriting the league.

737
00:39:59,856 --> 00:40:01,858
[David] As a group, they're a pretty good
group of guys.

738
00:40:01,942 --> 00:40:05,403
They may not conform
to the notion that we all have

739
00:40:05,487 --> 00:40:07,239
of the heroes of yesteryear,

740
00:40:07,322 --> 00:40:11,701
but to that extent, sports becomes
a harbinger of things to come.

741
00:40:12,285 --> 00:40:14,704
[reporter] Are you "The Answer,"
or at least one of the answers

742
00:40:14,788 --> 00:40:17,541
to the question,
"Who's gonna carry the NBA torch?"

743
00:40:17,624 --> 00:40:18,917
[Allen] I want to be.

744
00:40:19,793 --> 00:40:22,295
I want that. I want to take on
that responsibility.

745
00:40:22,879 --> 00:40:26,133
[J.A.] I think the NBA feared
that Allen Iverson represented

746
00:40:26,216 --> 00:40:28,301
something that they didn't
want the league to be.

747
00:40:28,718 --> 00:40:31,596
[reporter] Do you feel the NBA has lost
ground and popularity to other sports

748
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:35,392
because it has become too synonymous
with hip-hop ostentation?

749
00:40:35,475 --> 00:40:39,521
The reality is that sports, fashion,
music, they're global trends.

750
00:40:40,188 --> 00:40:43,483
And we go with the flow

751
00:40:43,567 --> 00:40:47,279
and do not have
a particularly hip-hop agenda.

752
00:40:48,446 --> 00:40:51,533
People started dressing like me,
'cause they wanted to feel confident.

753
00:40:51,616 --> 00:40:53,785
Well, shit, he can do it. Why can't I?

754
00:40:54,369 --> 00:40:56,371
Then, everybody started doing it.

755
00:40:56,454 --> 00:40:59,040
Everybody came with the chains,
everybody came with the earrings,

756
00:40:59,124 --> 00:41:01,793
everybody was wearing baggy clothes.

757
00:41:01,877 --> 00:41:06,256
[J.A.] It was this fear that Iverson
would alienate the customer base,

758
00:41:06,339 --> 00:41:10,635
when, meanwhile, what he was doing
was enthralling young people

759
00:41:10,719 --> 00:41:12,137
who looked up to him,

760
00:41:12,220 --> 00:41:15,265
and so, it gave the NBA cachet.

761
00:41:15,348 --> 00:41:20,020
[Larry] And it was a process
to get this corporate behemoth, the NBA,

762
00:41:20,103 --> 00:41:24,608
to realize that they had marketing gold
on their hands.

763
00:41:24,691 --> 00:41:27,319
[reporter 1] The NBA has announced
it's changing its dress code for players.

764
00:41:27,402 --> 00:41:29,863
-[reporter 2] Off-court dress code to...
-[reporter 3] Pro athletes associate

765
00:41:29,946 --> 00:41:31,364
themselves with the thug life...

766
00:41:31,448 --> 00:41:34,242
[Matt] Think it was getting
a little too hip hop

767
00:41:34,326 --> 00:41:35,911
for David Stern's liking.

768
00:41:35,994 --> 00:41:40,207
This is nothing less
than having a $3 billion business.

769
00:41:40,290 --> 00:41:43,668
And each additional dollar,
the players get 57 cents of.

770
00:41:43,752 --> 00:41:46,880
And we are doing here
what our teams want us to do.

771
00:41:46,963 --> 00:41:49,090
[Allen] I was like, oh, my God, man,
that's a shot at me.

772
00:41:49,174 --> 00:41:50,217
'Cause I started this.

773
00:41:51,009 --> 00:41:53,470
If I put on a suit,
I'm gonna be the same person.

774
00:41:53,553 --> 00:41:58,141
When you think of mobsters and gangsters
and Al Capone and all these people,

775
00:41:58,225 --> 00:42:01,436
they wore suits.
John Gotti wore $2,000 suits.

776
00:42:01,937 --> 00:42:05,982
[Larry Platt] The NBA airbrushed out
his tats and his earring.

777
00:42:06,066 --> 00:42:08,693
[Allen] Broke my heart.
Like, my tattoos mean something.

778
00:42:08,777 --> 00:42:10,612
My family, my babies, my girl.

779
00:42:10,695 --> 00:42:13,615
You should've fucking blurred my face.

780
00:42:14,950 --> 00:42:18,328
[Larry] And it turns out,
they were ready to embrace Allen Iverson,

781
00:42:18,411 --> 00:42:20,163
because he played his ass off.

782
00:42:20,247 --> 00:42:23,541
They didn't care that he was tatted up
or wore his hair in cornrows.

783
00:42:23,625 --> 00:42:25,168
[Allen] I listened to Charles Barkley say,

784
00:42:25,252 --> 00:42:27,003
you know, he's not a role model
or whatever,

785
00:42:27,087 --> 00:42:28,797
and I understood what he was saying.

786
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,216
It's not his job to raise your kids.

787
00:42:31,800 --> 00:42:34,427
But the responsibility is there,

788
00:42:34,511 --> 00:42:38,223
'cause there's a lot of little dudes
and little women

789
00:42:38,306 --> 00:42:41,101
that look up to Allen Iverson.

790
00:42:41,184 --> 00:42:43,895
You know, you signed up for this.

791
00:42:43,979 --> 00:42:47,941
[Larry] It's a more authentic
cultural presence

792
00:42:48,024 --> 00:42:50,068
that Allen's at the forefront of.

793
00:42:50,151 --> 00:42:53,405
At first, no. No hip hop. No rappers.

794
00:42:53,488 --> 00:42:55,782
Now, who doing all the promos?

795
00:42:55,865 --> 00:42:57,117
-What?
-Who doing all the promos?

796
00:42:57,200 --> 00:42:59,327
-Rappers.
-You did that.

797
00:42:59,911 --> 00:43:03,665
[Larry] And actually, when they
were cheering for Allen Iverson,

798
00:43:03,748 --> 00:43:05,667
they were actually cheering
the American Dream.

799
00:43:06,251 --> 00:43:10,046
I ain't know I was doing it. I did it,
but I didn't know I was doing it.

800
00:43:10,130 --> 00:43:14,843
I didn't know I was securing a way
for these guys today

801
00:43:14,926 --> 00:43:16,553
to be themselves.

802
00:43:16,636 --> 00:43:20,098
I didn't know I was doing it,
'cause I was stuck on,

803
00:43:20,181 --> 00:43:23,018
"I ain't doing nothing wrong.
I'm being myself."

804
00:43:23,101 --> 00:43:25,395
This many years later,

805
00:43:25,478 --> 00:43:28,773
taking an ass-whooping for it
is a blessing,

806
00:43:28,857 --> 00:43:32,110
because now you see
you can do your shit.

807
00:43:32,193 --> 00:43:34,904
But Chuck took that ass-whooping for it.

808
00:43:35,905 --> 00:43:37,782
I just thought it was unfair,

809
00:43:37,866 --> 00:43:40,618
and the best part about my God,

810
00:43:40,702 --> 00:43:43,538
I just knew I was gonna get through it all
without folding.

811
00:43:44,039 --> 00:43:46,041
Because I had some nights where I cried.

812
00:43:46,124 --> 00:43:49,336
I had some nights
where I couldn't believe it.

813
00:43:49,419 --> 00:43:51,129
But you do wonder, like,

814
00:43:51,212 --> 00:43:55,258
why did he want me to go through
this pain?

815
00:43:56,384 --> 00:43:58,970
[reporter] Allen Iverson
is facing legal battles

816
00:43:59,054 --> 00:44:01,222
about the right to his nickname,
"The Answer."

817
00:44:01,306 --> 00:44:02,349
Them wolves coming.

818
00:44:02,432 --> 00:44:05,352
[Que] And that was one of the first
early indications for us, too.

819
00:44:05,435 --> 00:44:07,270
They're not coming looking as wolves.

820
00:44:07,354 --> 00:44:10,774
[Que] We really gotta make sure
we find ways to try to protect him.

821
00:44:10,857 --> 00:44:12,192
They're coming as sheep.

822
00:44:12,275 --> 00:44:13,985
[reporter] 76ers star Allen Iverson

823
00:44:14,069 --> 00:44:17,280
is at the center
of a Philadelphia police investigation.

824
00:44:17,364 --> 00:44:19,199
Apparently, he had a fight with his wife.

825
00:44:19,282 --> 00:44:22,619
Sources say he came looking for her
at his cousin's apartment.

826
00:44:22,702 --> 00:44:26,664
[reporter 2] If convicted, he could
spend up to 61 years in jail.

827
00:44:26,748 --> 00:44:30,377
[Allen] The biggest problem was,
everybody got involved with it.

828
00:44:30,460 --> 00:44:32,045
-Excuse me?
-[reporter] Do ups and downs include

829
00:44:32,128 --> 00:44:32,962
throwing your wife out--

830
00:44:33,046 --> 00:44:34,672
Girl, get out of my face
with that crazy stuff.

831
00:44:34,756 --> 00:44:36,508
-That's only hearsay.
-That's some rumors.

832
00:44:36,591 --> 00:44:37,550
Where you get that from?

833
00:44:37,634 --> 00:44:39,219
-That's hearsay, that's not true.
-'Cause somebody told it to you?

834
00:44:39,302 --> 00:44:40,762
Did Tawanna tell you that?

835
00:44:40,845 --> 00:44:43,014
[Gregory] I'm the driver. I'm his uncle.

836
00:44:43,098 --> 00:44:46,518
I drove him around looking for my niece,
which is his wife,

837
00:44:46,601 --> 00:44:48,311
and my nephew, which is his cousin.

838
00:44:48,895 --> 00:44:53,191
The building we went to, Allen paid
the rent on that for his cousin.

839
00:44:53,274 --> 00:44:56,027
We ain't kicking no doors.
We ain't waving no .44s.

840
00:44:56,111 --> 00:44:59,614
[Allen] If you've ever been
in a relationship, you have fights, man.

841
00:44:59,697 --> 00:45:03,118
To make a big deal--
The big deal is 'cause it's Allen Iverson.

842
00:45:03,201 --> 00:45:05,578
[Gregory] You think I'm gonna let
my nephew run around with heat?

843
00:45:05,662 --> 00:45:07,205
The king dog of the family,

844
00:45:07,288 --> 00:45:10,083
where he take care of everybody?
With a weapon?

845
00:45:10,166 --> 00:45:12,669
I gotta have a weapon,
'cause he's Allen Iverson.

846
00:45:12,752 --> 00:45:15,380
To protect us, just in case
somebody run up on us.

847
00:45:16,381 --> 00:45:20,760
[reporter] A Philadelphia judge dropped
12 of the 14 charges against Iverson.

848
00:45:20,844 --> 00:45:24,472
I think it's time
to get somebody else in here,

849
00:45:24,556 --> 00:45:26,599
maybe give a fresh look.

850
00:45:26,683 --> 00:45:28,643
[reporter 1] It was Brown's decision

851
00:45:28,726 --> 00:45:29,936
to step down as Sixers' coach.

852
00:45:30,019 --> 00:45:33,231
[reporter 2] The Sixers and Allen Iverson
have reached an agreement

853
00:45:33,314 --> 00:45:37,610
that'll keep A.I. in Philadelphia
through the 2008-2009 season.

854
00:45:37,694 --> 00:45:41,114
[announcer] Allen for the win! Yes!

855
00:45:43,116 --> 00:45:45,368
Do you love this game?

856
00:45:45,618 --> 00:45:49,038
[Allen] Me being in Philadelphia,
me being myself,

857
00:45:49,122 --> 00:45:51,749
it's hard for me to maneuver
the way I want to.

858
00:45:51,833 --> 00:45:53,918
[reporter] The shooting at Iverson
and a group of his friends

859
00:45:54,002 --> 00:45:54,919
earlier this month.

860
00:45:55,003 --> 00:45:56,004
[man] He fired two shots.

861
00:45:56,087 --> 00:45:57,589
[Allen]
As soon as I looked up at him...

862
00:45:58,756 --> 00:46:01,718
Pow, pow. I mean, I saw the fire
come from the gun.

863
00:46:01,801 --> 00:46:03,887
I don't know how he missed me.

864
00:46:03,970 --> 00:46:06,431
And then, you know,
I just took off running.

865
00:46:06,514 --> 00:46:10,268
[reporter] Iverson was not injured,
but his longtime friend Larry Robinson

866
00:46:10,351 --> 00:46:11,561
was struck once in the leg.

867
00:46:11,644 --> 00:46:12,562
[Larry Robinson] I was hit.

868
00:46:12,645 --> 00:46:16,357
Allen wasn't that type,
so they tried to make it

869
00:46:16,441 --> 00:46:18,276
like it was more than what it was.

870
00:46:18,776 --> 00:46:21,821
[reporter 1] After the Sixers
fired Randy Ayers in February--

871
00:46:21,905 --> 00:46:24,365
[reporter 2] But now on his third coach
in less than one year--

872
00:46:24,449 --> 00:46:25,492
[reporter 1] ...because he wasn't
consulted beforehand.

873
00:46:25,575 --> 00:46:27,076
[reporter 2] ...difficulties are never
too far from the surface--

874
00:46:27,160 --> 00:46:29,037
[reporter 3] ...told A.I. he would
come off the bench--

875
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,414
[reporter 2] And is it too hard
to imagine Iverson someplace else?

876
00:46:31,498 --> 00:46:32,916
[reporter 4] A humiliating loss--

877
00:46:32,999 --> 00:46:33,833
I was a failure.

878
00:46:33,917 --> 00:46:38,004
[reporter 5] ...first team
to beat a US squad since 1992.

879
00:46:38,087 --> 00:46:41,132
Philly with no A.I. is like Philly
with no City Hall!

880
00:46:41,216 --> 00:46:44,135
[Allen] I wanna win a championship
right here in Philadelphia.

881
00:46:44,219 --> 00:46:45,261
Philadelphia not having
cheese steaks

882
00:46:45,345 --> 00:46:46,888
-and soft pretzels.
-[man 1] Philly with no crack in the bell!

883
00:46:46,971 --> 00:46:49,265
[reporter 6] Iverson, traded
to the Denver Nuggets.

884
00:46:49,349 --> 00:46:50,642
[reporter 7] We say goodbye to A.I.

885
00:46:50,725 --> 00:46:54,062
[reporter 8] Does A.I. make Denver
a legitimate contender in the west?

886
00:46:54,145 --> 00:46:56,564
I did not want to go.

887
00:46:56,648 --> 00:46:58,274
Tiaura and Deuce were in school.

888
00:46:58,358 --> 00:47:00,902
[reporter 9] Denver becomes
the first 50-win team in NBA history

889
00:47:00,985 --> 00:47:02,529
to get swept.

890
00:47:02,612 --> 00:47:04,739
[reporter 10] A.I. traded back to the east
to the Pistons.

891
00:47:04,822 --> 00:47:06,407
[reporter 11] The first time
as an NBA player

892
00:47:06,491 --> 00:47:08,159
be coming off the bench.

893
00:47:08,243 --> 00:47:11,120
[sighs] It's a bigger deal
than just...

894
00:47:11,204 --> 00:47:12,956
packing up and moving
from one team to the next.

895
00:47:13,039 --> 00:47:15,792
[reporter 12] Hey, it happens
to all of us. We get older sometimes.

896
00:47:15,875 --> 00:47:18,419
It's hard when the kids are involved,

897
00:47:18,503 --> 00:47:19,546
and just, um...

898
00:47:19,629 --> 00:47:22,131
I'm turning into a journeyman. [laughs]

899
00:47:22,215 --> 00:47:24,634
[commentator] He's probably at home
thinking about my future

900
00:47:24,717 --> 00:47:28,221
and how it's gonna affect me for Detroit,
but also long-term.

901
00:47:28,304 --> 00:47:30,223
[Allen] When you get traded, obviously,

902
00:47:30,306 --> 00:47:31,724
the team that traded for you,
they want you.

903
00:47:31,808 --> 00:47:35,853
When he got traded to Memphis,
we did not go to Memphis.

904
00:47:37,063 --> 00:47:39,357
[Allen]
They wanna welcome you to their city.

905
00:47:42,485 --> 00:47:45,405
[reporter] The Sixers lost starting
point guard Lou Williams for eight weeks

906
00:47:45,488 --> 00:47:46,447
with a fractured jaw.

907
00:47:46,531 --> 00:47:48,783
That is what prompted talks with A.I.

908
00:47:48,866 --> 00:47:51,828
[Allen] You know,
when I had the opportunity...

909
00:47:53,538 --> 00:47:55,957
When I had the opportunity
to come back here,

910
00:47:57,083 --> 00:47:59,711
you know, it was something...

911
00:48:00,920 --> 00:48:02,505
I couldn't turn it down.

912
00:48:03,548 --> 00:48:04,507
And I'm just...

913
00:48:04,591 --> 00:48:08,261
I'm just... I'm just happy.

914
00:48:12,056 --> 00:48:15,143
[interviewer] When you first decided
to retire, what led up to that decision?

915
00:48:19,188 --> 00:48:22,609
You know, I just wanted to be wanted.

916
00:48:22,942 --> 00:48:27,155
You know, want somebody
that really wants you. For you.

917
00:48:27,238 --> 00:48:28,489
And what you can bring.

918
00:48:28,573 --> 00:48:32,785
You know, once that started to fade,
it was like okay, it's time to go.

919
00:48:36,039 --> 00:48:37,915
Everybody know why we're here.

920
00:48:37,999 --> 00:48:43,671
I'm formally announcing
my retirement from basketball.

921
00:48:43,755 --> 00:48:47,342
And I think ultimately,
the icing on the cake

922
00:48:47,425 --> 00:48:50,219
was when my daughter got sick.

923
00:48:52,513 --> 00:48:55,141
I'm happy with my decision.

924
00:48:55,224 --> 00:48:59,937
And I feel great. I'm in a great mindset.

925
00:49:00,688 --> 00:49:05,068
When I'm on the dance floor, all I think
about is what's going on out there.

926
00:49:05,151 --> 00:49:07,278
I remember somebody
was shooting a free throw,

927
00:49:07,362 --> 00:49:08,696
and I was thinking about her.

928
00:49:08,780 --> 00:49:13,409
And that's when I knew.
That's when I knew it was over.

929
00:49:14,160 --> 00:49:16,204
[reporter] You said you don't know
what you're going to do.

930
00:49:16,287 --> 00:49:17,955
You don't have a plan for--

931
00:49:18,039 --> 00:49:20,208
I mean, I have ideas, you know?

932
00:49:21,292 --> 00:49:24,128
I wanna do a lot of things,
you know what I mean? But right now...

933
00:49:26,339 --> 00:49:29,050
You know, I just wanna fish
and enjoy my family.

934
00:49:31,177 --> 00:49:34,055
You know what I mean? Spending time
that I never had.

935
00:49:35,682 --> 00:49:39,060
You know, because of ripping and running,
you know, being in the NBA,

936
00:49:39,143 --> 00:49:42,522
and just, just enjoy the rest of my life.

937
00:49:44,649 --> 00:49:49,195
And assure myself that basketball
is not my whole life.

938
00:49:49,278 --> 00:49:50,697
You know, there's another chapter.

939
00:49:52,115 --> 00:49:53,533
-Hey.
-Good to see you.

940
00:49:53,616 --> 00:49:55,618
Good to see you, yep, yep, yep.
What's up, man?

941
00:49:55,702 --> 00:49:56,661
Good to see you. Yep, yep, yep

942
00:49:56,744 --> 00:49:58,705
-There's gonna be three questions.
-Yep.

943
00:50:01,124 --> 00:50:03,876
[Que] One of the things I quickly noticed,

944
00:50:03,960 --> 00:50:06,087
Allen wasn't gonna be the type of athlete

945
00:50:06,170 --> 00:50:08,965
that was gonna run out of money
because of bad investments.

946
00:50:10,174 --> 00:50:12,885
He was gonna run out of money
because his heart was so big.

947
00:50:12,969 --> 00:50:14,011
My man.

948
00:50:14,887 --> 00:50:17,515
[Que] I remember there was
a night at the Iversons'

949
00:50:17,598 --> 00:50:18,683
with his friends and family.

950
00:50:18,766 --> 00:50:20,852
And we started having an argument.

951
00:50:22,103 --> 00:50:23,604
One side of the group felt like

952
00:50:23,688 --> 00:50:26,232
you couldn't spend $100 million
in a lifetime.

953
00:50:26,315 --> 00:50:28,317
And there was another side
of the group, like me,

954
00:50:28,401 --> 00:50:30,027
that was like, you're buggin'.

955
00:50:30,111 --> 00:50:32,447
Like, not only can you spend $100 million
in a lifetime,

956
00:50:32,530 --> 00:50:33,573
you can spend that shit in a day.

957
00:50:33,656 --> 00:50:35,658
[reporter] Stephen A. Smith says
that Iverson has serious

958
00:50:35,742 --> 00:50:37,118
alcohol and gambling issues.

959
00:50:37,201 --> 00:50:41,038
The problem is so severe, that Iverson
will drink himself into oblivion

960
00:50:41,122 --> 00:50:42,498
or gamble his life away.

961
00:50:43,458 --> 00:50:44,917
[Brandy] When things hurt him,

962
00:50:45,001 --> 00:50:48,171
the first thing he might do
is go have a drink.

963
00:50:49,714 --> 00:50:51,466
-[commentator 1] Look at Allen Iverson.
-[commentator 2] He's broke.

964
00:50:51,549 --> 00:50:54,594
[reporter] A.I. has been banned already
from casinos in both Detroit

965
00:50:54,677 --> 00:50:55,636
and Atlantic City.

966
00:50:55,720 --> 00:50:58,222
[commentator 2] He's got no money.
Allen Iverson has no money.

967
00:50:58,306 --> 00:51:00,224
The hardest part of managing money...

968
00:51:01,434 --> 00:51:03,686
not having the word "no"
in your vocabulary.

969
00:51:04,854 --> 00:51:06,522
Thinking you can take care of everybody.

970
00:51:08,024 --> 00:51:09,734
And that's something you can't do.

971
00:51:13,863 --> 00:51:16,365
[reporter] According to TMZ,
Tawanna Iverson filed for divorce

972
00:51:16,449 --> 00:51:17,742
back in March of 2010.

973
00:51:17,825 --> 00:51:19,619
The couple then attempted to reconcile,

974
00:51:19,702 --> 00:51:21,245
she dropped the divorce petition,

975
00:51:21,329 --> 00:51:23,331
but then filed again last June.

976
00:51:24,874 --> 00:51:26,751
[Tawanna] We got divorced, um...

977
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:31,380
I don't even know
where to start with it. Um...

978
00:51:31,464 --> 00:51:34,967
So, maybe around 2010...

979
00:51:35,635 --> 00:51:38,930
um, I think, was like the beginning
of like-- [clears throat]

980
00:51:39,013 --> 00:51:42,308
the hard-- the hardest part
of our marriage.

981
00:51:42,391 --> 00:51:44,852
And it was more of... um...

982
00:51:45,394 --> 00:51:48,272
he didn't have, like, routine.

983
00:51:50,107 --> 00:51:54,362
[Allen] If you ain't doing your part
in a relationship, then...

984
00:51:55,363 --> 00:51:58,115
obviously, it's gonna break,
you know what I mean?

985
00:51:58,199 --> 00:52:02,328
And I was fucking up
to the highest level.

986
00:52:02,411 --> 00:52:04,705
Fucking up fast and picking up speed.

987
00:52:05,540 --> 00:52:06,499
And she was sick of it.

988
00:52:08,334 --> 00:52:10,795
I did try to, like, step away,

989
00:52:10,878 --> 00:52:14,048
hoping that he would, "Oh, she...

990
00:52:15,216 --> 00:52:17,468
she left, look,
let me get my shit together."

991
00:52:19,971 --> 00:52:23,724
It didn't happen the way
I would have liked for it to happen,

992
00:52:23,808 --> 00:52:26,894
but yeah, we ended up, um...

993
00:52:27,478 --> 00:52:30,273
[Stephen] I would hear about drinking.
I would hear about gambling.

994
00:52:30,356 --> 00:52:32,358
I would hear about money issues.

995
00:52:32,441 --> 00:52:35,444
And while everybody was just
talking about this, chronicling it,

996
00:52:35,528 --> 00:52:38,281
I was saying, "Where's Tawanna?"

997
00:52:39,115 --> 00:52:41,826
We ended up getting a divorce, uh...

998
00:52:41,909 --> 00:52:45,329
It was finalized 2013.

999
00:52:46,622 --> 00:52:48,499
[Allen]
The worst thing that I ever went through.

1000
00:52:49,375 --> 00:52:51,794
One of the worst nightmares
that I ever been through

1001
00:52:51,878 --> 00:52:53,296
in my life, going through that divorce.

1002
00:52:53,379 --> 00:52:54,630
[Stephen]
It is not an exaggeration.

1003
00:52:54,714 --> 00:52:56,299
[Brandy] He said he just wanted
the pain to go away.

1004
00:52:56,382 --> 00:52:57,383
[Stephen] He is nothing...

1005
00:52:57,466 --> 00:52:59,135
[Brandy] "The next day,
when I woke up, it was still there."

1006
00:52:59,218 --> 00:53:00,678
[Stephen] ...without heart.

1007
00:53:00,761 --> 00:53:02,930
[Allen]
I was losing what God gave me.

1008
00:53:03,014 --> 00:53:05,308
-I threw it away.
-[static]

1009
00:53:08,686 --> 00:53:10,146
[Allen] I used to clam out there.

1010
00:53:11,898 --> 00:53:15,526
You walk out there at low tide,
and you just do the shit with your feet.

1011
00:53:18,362 --> 00:53:23,034
I was getting them big-ass clams,
and then Mommy used to steam them bitches,

1012
00:53:23,117 --> 00:53:25,244
put that Texas Pete on the motherfuckers.

1013
00:53:26,996 --> 00:53:28,456
It was paradise to me.

1014
00:53:30,541 --> 00:53:33,085
Man, the devil's always in second place.

1015
00:53:33,669 --> 00:53:36,172
That motherfucker's in second place
all the time.

1016
00:53:36,881 --> 00:53:38,674
And, he-- it's a tight race.

1017
00:53:38,758 --> 00:53:42,345
But, the way I look at it,
he always in second.

1018
00:53:42,428 --> 00:53:45,556
Either you gonna fall,
or you gonna stand up.

1019
00:53:45,640 --> 00:53:47,266
I'd rather stand up.

1020
00:53:47,350 --> 00:53:48,267
Hi!

1021
00:53:48,351 --> 00:53:51,354
[Brandy] He fired the management team
that he had before.

1022
00:53:51,437 --> 00:53:54,482
He's at point where he's ready
to be more in tune

1023
00:53:54,565 --> 00:53:57,693
taking responsibility
for his personal life

1024
00:53:57,777 --> 00:53:59,153
as well as his business life.

1025
00:54:00,947 --> 00:54:06,077
[Allen] I look at it like...
I'm getting the respect that I earned.

1026
00:54:06,953 --> 00:54:10,122
[Michael] People want to know more
about him just 'cause it's him.

1027
00:54:10,206 --> 00:54:12,541
The push is just 'cause of who he is.

1028
00:54:13,084 --> 00:54:15,795
[reporter] Reebok just announced
that Shaq and A.I.

1029
00:54:15,878 --> 00:54:19,215
will serve as President and Vice President
of basketball.

1030
00:54:19,298 --> 00:54:21,425
[Shaq] It's easy for me to talk
to a big man.

1031
00:54:21,509 --> 00:54:24,136
Can't talk to a guard, but he can.

1032
00:54:24,220 --> 00:54:26,681
And the President and Vice President
working together, so,

1033
00:54:26,764 --> 00:54:29,225
it's just a challenge for us
to just try to get back in the game.

1034
00:54:29,308 --> 00:54:31,978
-Later, ya'll! See you.
-All right. God bless ya'll.

1035
00:54:32,061 --> 00:54:34,563
[Tawanna] The way we got back together
was like...

1036
00:54:34,647 --> 00:54:36,857
what was the point in getting a divorce?

1037
00:54:37,942 --> 00:54:40,861
Our relationship... just...

1038
00:54:40,945 --> 00:54:44,490
withstands... any and everything

1039
00:54:44,573 --> 00:54:48,035
that has presented itself because...

1040
00:54:48,703 --> 00:54:52,456
there's just a love that...
I-- I ca-- we can't explain it.

1041
00:54:52,540 --> 00:54:55,668
[Allen] I ain't been
the greatest... partner.

1042
00:54:55,751 --> 00:54:58,462
So, for somebody to stick with me...

1043
00:54:59,130 --> 00:55:00,423
for this long...

1044
00:55:01,048 --> 00:55:03,259
is a blessing that it happened
the way it happened.

1045
00:55:04,301 --> 00:55:07,430
[Tawanna] Allen is definitely
more of a family man now.

1046
00:55:08,389 --> 00:55:10,016
[Allen] My-- my time...

1047
00:55:10,099 --> 00:55:11,809
is where I wanted to be.

1048
00:55:13,185 --> 00:55:16,689
My two older kids,
they never really had...

1049
00:55:17,606 --> 00:55:20,818
a father that was there,
I was always rippin' and runnin'

1050
00:55:20,901 --> 00:55:22,361
through their childhood.

1051
00:55:23,195 --> 00:55:26,240
Now I'm there, I'm there,
I'm-- I'm in their life.

1052
00:55:26,323 --> 00:55:28,743
I'm talking to them when
they don't understand things.

1053
00:55:28,826 --> 00:55:32,455
When things are hard for them,
like, I'm there, I'm their voice.

1054
00:55:33,164 --> 00:55:36,042
I think he's more accepting of...

1055
00:55:36,917 --> 00:55:38,919
"My family loves me,

1056
00:55:39,003 --> 00:55:41,839
my household loves me, and...

1057
00:55:41,922 --> 00:55:43,632
my friends are over there."

1058
00:55:43,716 --> 00:55:46,677
Thirty-two years, I wanna go 32 more,

1059
00:55:46,761 --> 00:55:49,180
and beyond it, you know what I mean?

1060
00:55:50,431 --> 00:55:52,308
That's my-- that's my partner.

1061
00:55:54,894 --> 00:55:58,230
I just have a respect for him
because I can, um...

1062
00:55:59,774 --> 00:56:01,275
I know who he is.

1063
00:56:02,068 --> 00:56:04,653
I've seen where he comes from.

1064
00:56:04,737 --> 00:56:06,530
Who he's grown into.

1065
00:56:07,281 --> 00:56:10,493
[reporter] Newport News is naming
a street after Hampton Roads' native

1066
00:56:10,576 --> 00:56:12,161
Allen Iverson today.

1067
00:56:12,244 --> 00:56:15,706
The city will add Allen Iverson Way
to 16th Street.

1068
00:56:15,790 --> 00:56:18,584
[Allen] So many things in life,
you're trying so hard

1069
00:56:18,667 --> 00:56:20,211
to do the right thing...

1070
00:56:21,003 --> 00:56:25,633
but trying to do the right thing
leads you into doing the wrong thing.

1071
00:56:26,759 --> 00:56:30,346
But at the same time,
there's a lot of things that I wish

1072
00:56:30,429 --> 00:56:34,183
I could've changed,
but I wouldn't be me.

1073
00:56:34,767 --> 00:56:39,605
You know what I mean?
And that's like the beauty of my life.

1074
00:56:41,816 --> 00:56:43,609
Coming from where I've come from,

1075
00:56:43,692 --> 00:56:46,278
people like that don't make it this far.

1076
00:56:47,613 --> 00:56:50,950
[Stephen] What if his definition
of being rich and wealthy

1077
00:56:51,033 --> 00:56:54,078
is being free to be who he was?

1078
00:56:54,787 --> 00:56:56,789
[Allen] Be happy, man. Laugh!

1079
00:56:56,872 --> 00:56:59,959
Hug your friends. Hug your friends, man.
Love your friends.

1080
00:57:00,042 --> 00:57:02,628
Enjoy the time that you with them.

1081
00:57:02,711 --> 00:57:05,381
[Brandy] The most important thing
Bub did for me,

1082
00:57:05,464 --> 00:57:07,383
he always had my back.

1083
00:57:07,466 --> 00:57:11,178
There's never been a time in 45 years
that he wasn't there.

1084
00:57:12,179 --> 00:57:15,724
[Stephen] He was truly unapologetic
about who he was.

1085
00:57:15,808 --> 00:57:18,936
And spearheaded a cultural movement

1086
00:57:19,019 --> 00:57:22,940
that has been undeniably favorable
to the Black athlete.

1087
00:57:23,023 --> 00:57:24,942
-[man 1] Biggest influence.
-[man 2] Cultural...

1088
00:57:25,025 --> 00:57:26,443
-[man 3] So relatable...
-[man 4] An icon...

1089
00:57:26,527 --> 00:57:27,611
-[man 5] A legend.
-[man 6] Pantheon.

1090
00:57:27,695 --> 00:57:31,991
[Kevin] A.I. was your favorite basketball
player's favorite basketball player.

1091
00:57:32,074 --> 00:57:34,827
[Tawanna] To see big-name players
act like little kids

1092
00:57:34,910 --> 00:57:37,204
when they see him, like,
that's amazing to me.

1093
00:57:37,288 --> 00:57:39,039
I started playing basketball
because of him.

1094
00:57:39,123 --> 00:57:42,209
[Kevin] We all was long crossing,
double-crossing...

1095
00:57:42,293 --> 00:57:44,420
One of those guys that I emulated
every time I went outside

1096
00:57:44,503 --> 00:57:45,963
to play with my friends.

1097
00:57:47,006 --> 00:57:51,343
[Dwyane] You inspired a generation
to believe that coming from nothing

1098
00:57:51,427 --> 00:57:53,554
was not a limitation,

1099
00:57:53,637 --> 00:57:55,055
but motivation.

1100
00:57:55,848 --> 00:57:57,641
[Kobe] A.I. is a competitor.

1101
00:57:57,725 --> 00:58:00,477
He drove me to be more obsessive
about the game.

1102
00:58:00,561 --> 00:58:03,355
I had a bet with my cousin how many times
you gonna hit the floor tonight.

1103
00:58:03,439 --> 00:58:05,274
-That was only one. That's it.
-That's the first time.

1104
00:58:05,357 --> 00:58:07,359
I said, "Man, you don't realize
how much you push me."

1105
00:58:08,068 --> 00:58:10,779
[Stephen] He's been subjected
to a level of scrutiny

1106
00:58:10,863 --> 00:58:13,991
in ways that most athletes
couldn't even fathom.

1107
00:58:14,074 --> 00:58:17,203
-[woman] He was him all the time.
-[Stephen] He did it his way.

1108
00:58:17,286 --> 00:58:18,162
He never conformed.

1109
00:58:18,245 --> 00:58:20,080
[man 1] The utmost confidence
in his fashion and swag.

1110
00:58:20,164 --> 00:58:21,332
-[woman] Durag...
-[man 2] Cornrows...

1111
00:58:21,415 --> 00:58:22,249
[woman] He was Iverson.

1112
00:58:22,333 --> 00:58:24,001
[man 4] I always called him
Tupac of basketball.

1113
00:58:24,084 --> 00:58:26,629
[Stephen Curry] He represented culture
on the basketball court and off,

1114
00:58:26,712 --> 00:58:28,964
even when the rules were set up
for him to fail.

1115
00:58:29,048 --> 00:58:32,426
[Stephen] There is no way, in my mind,
I would be sitting here today

1116
00:58:32,509 --> 00:58:33,719
if it wasn't for Allen Iverson.

1117
00:58:34,428 --> 00:58:38,307
Man, you are the forefather
of allowing people to be themselves.

1118
00:58:38,390 --> 00:58:41,268
♪And you can try to change
but that's just the top layer♪

1119
00:58:41,352 --> 00:58:43,604
♪Man, you was who you was
'fore you got here...♪

1120
00:58:43,687 --> 00:58:45,231
No question!

1121
00:58:46,065 --> 00:58:48,025
♪Either love me or leave me alone♪

1122
00:58:49,818 --> 00:58:52,696
[Allen] Yes, man, I want some more money.
I ain't got enough.

1123
00:58:52,780 --> 00:58:56,450
I want more accomplishments.
I want more in life.

1124
00:58:56,533 --> 00:58:58,744
Not in a selfish way. I wanna be happy.

1125
00:58:58,827 --> 00:59:00,871
I want my family to be happy.

1126
00:59:00,955 --> 00:59:02,414
I want my friends to be happy.

1127
00:59:03,916 --> 00:59:06,835
[Stephen] He's been to hell and back.
And he's still standing.

1128
00:59:06,919 --> 00:59:09,880
So that, in and of itself,
at the end of the day,

1129
00:59:10,547 --> 00:59:12,258
is a source of inspiration.

1130
00:59:12,341 --> 00:59:17,805
[announcer] And finally, a six-foot guard
from Georgetown...

1131
00:59:17,888 --> 00:59:20,557
♪Allow me to reintroduce myself,
my name is♪

1132
00:59:20,641 --> 00:59:25,980
[announcer] Allen Iverson!

1133
00:59:26,063 --> 00:59:28,440
♪I got a hustler's spirit,
nigga, period♪

1134
00:59:28,524 --> 00:59:31,443
♪Check out my hat, yo,
peep the way I wear it...♪

1135
00:59:31,527 --> 00:59:35,406
[Adam] You define the city of Philadelphia
more than any other athlete.

1136
00:59:36,115 --> 00:59:39,410
You left everything on the court
every single night.

1137
00:59:39,493 --> 00:59:42,162
On behalf of every NBA fan, thank you.

1138
00:59:43,706 --> 00:59:46,500
[announcer] Ladies and gentlemen,
Allen Iverson!

1139
00:59:51,755 --> 00:59:54,008
[Allen] I'm 48.
That ain't gonna change up.

1140
00:59:54,466 --> 00:59:56,135
I ain't gonna turn into nobody else.

1141
00:59:57,261 --> 00:59:59,596
Swear to God,
I hope I get smarter tomorrow.

1142
01:00:00,306 --> 01:00:03,767
And I did a good job, 'cause there's
a lot of motherfuckers that love me.

1143
01:00:03,851 --> 01:00:07,021
The man of the hour, Allen Iverson.

1144
01:00:07,104 --> 01:00:08,814
[cheering and applause]

1145
01:00:08,897 --> 01:00:10,482
[Allen] This is who I am.
I'm the people's champ.

1146
01:00:14,445 --> 01:00:17,364
My God, my God be showing off, man.

1147
01:00:19,116 --> 01:00:20,284
I know...

1148
01:00:22,119 --> 01:00:23,162
I know...

1149
01:00:24,997 --> 01:00:25,873
My man...

1150
01:00:28,834 --> 01:00:32,212
[voice quavering] I know my man, Ra,
is up there,

1151
01:00:32,296 --> 01:00:35,341
and he-- and he looking down on me

1152
01:00:35,924 --> 01:00:39,720
and I know everything I go through
in my life...

1153
01:00:42,014 --> 01:00:43,515
...I know he help me with it.

1154
01:00:46,352 --> 01:00:49,438
The ones that stuck by me
throughout my journey,

1155
01:00:49,521 --> 01:00:53,734
I love y'all, and I love the fact
that now y'all can walk around

1156
01:00:53,817 --> 01:00:56,904
and stick y'all chest out and say
y'all are Hall of Famers.

1157
01:01:01,325 --> 01:01:03,827
I just love representing Virginia.

1158
01:01:03,911 --> 01:01:07,039
I love who I am.
If I died, you know, today,

1159
01:01:07,122 --> 01:01:09,166
and was able to come back tomorrow,
I would wanna come back Chuck.

1160
01:01:09,249 --> 01:01:11,877
[cheering and applause]

1161
01:01:14,380 --> 01:01:17,633
My mom told me
when I was eight years old,

1162
01:01:17,716 --> 01:01:19,635
that I could be anything
I wanted to be.

1163
01:01:19,718 --> 01:01:22,679
And I actually believed her,
you know what I mean?

1164
01:01:22,763 --> 01:01:26,725
'Cause she-- she told me
that I could be who I am today.

1165
01:01:27,601 --> 01:01:29,853
People were placed in his life

1166
01:01:29,937 --> 01:01:34,024
the whole way through,
to get him to where he is.

1167
01:01:35,609 --> 01:01:38,695
And they've all served a purpose.

1168
01:01:39,947 --> 01:01:43,951
And he's served a purpose
in our lives as well.

1169
01:01:44,785 --> 01:01:46,620
[Allen] I'm so lucky, I'm so blessed,

1170
01:01:46,703 --> 01:01:49,498
to have my family, my friends
around me that support me

1171
01:01:49,581 --> 01:01:51,458
or encourage me to do better.

1172
01:01:51,792 --> 01:01:55,170
Do everything to help me
live this dream life.

1173
01:01:56,713 --> 01:02:01,009
And it's hard, but I do it
the Allen Iverson way.

1174
01:02:01,093 --> 01:02:02,177
You know what I mean?

1175
01:02:03,846 --> 01:02:05,222
And I thank y'all,

1176
01:02:06,223 --> 01:02:08,976
and I love y'all for coming out
and supporting me.

1177
01:02:09,810 --> 01:02:12,729
Please keep supporting me.
Thank you. Love you all.

1178
01:02:18,444 --> 01:02:20,028
The people that love me

1179
01:02:20,821 --> 01:02:22,239
is what matter to me.

1180
01:02:23,574 --> 01:02:27,411
The people that love Allen Iverson
that knew him before all this shit.

1181
01:02:27,494 --> 01:02:30,414
If I was to ask myself,
"What am I here for?"

1182
01:02:31,248 --> 01:02:33,959
Just continue to take care of my family.

1183
01:02:34,042 --> 01:02:39,381
Take care of my daughter, my mom,
my sisters, my aunts, my uncles.

1184
01:02:39,465 --> 01:02:42,509
That word, "family," is one
of the biggest words

1185
01:02:42,593 --> 01:02:44,845
you can let come out your mouth,

1186
01:02:44,928 --> 01:02:48,724
and that means a lot to me,
where I'm from.

1187
01:02:48,807 --> 01:02:52,394
You know, family's supposed
to stick together no matter what.

1188
01:02:55,063 --> 01:02:59,818
I'd go broke for my family.
I'd die for my family.

1189
01:03:01,778 --> 01:03:04,781
[dramatic music playing]

1190
01:03:24,218 --> 01:03:25,344
Bet.

1191
01:03:26,845 --> 01:03:28,388
Man, thank you, dawg.

1192
01:03:28,472 --> 01:03:29,806
[groaning]

1193
01:03:29,890 --> 01:03:32,351
[cheers, applause, and whooping]

1194
01:03:32,434 --> 01:03:34,478
Oh, shit!

1195
01:03:34,561 --> 01:03:37,022
Yo, do you hear them bitches
pop like that, man?

1196
01:03:37,856 --> 01:03:39,399
Yo, man.

1197
01:03:41,193 --> 01:03:44,238
[closing theme playing]