Chapter 140: The Unparalleled Iverson 2
V------victory Iverson scores, and the 76ers lose. This has been a stereotype for a long time, and this is the best reason for those who accuse Iverson of selfishness, but no one can deny Iverson's obsession with winning, and the history of winning and losing with high scores is gone!
W------women Iverson met a great woman in his life, his mother, Anna Iverson. She had to work 14 hours a day to maintain a home and prevent Iverson from going astray. This is how she pulled Iverson step by step, Iverson couldn't tolerate anyone's disrespect for his mother, and he could even fire him without saying a word because of the arrogance of the famous agent Falk to his mother, and I am afraid that no one in the NBA can stand out in terms of filial piety.
THE ROOKIES OF X------X (UNKNOWN) '96 WERE RECOGNIZED AS THE BEST IN 10 YEARS, INCLUDING KOBE, CAMBY, AND MARBURY, BUT BECAUSE OF THEIR FRIVOLOUS PERSONALITIES, THEY WERE KNOWN AS THE UNKNOWN GENERATION, AND IVERSON WAS ONE OF THEM. It has been proven that the rookies of that class have taken the lead in their respective teams and have successfully taken over the baton from Jordan and Malone. The future of the NBA belongs to them and to Iverson!
The case of Y------young (young man) Iverson is a legend in itself, a black boy who came out of the slums and became a superstar on his own. He is already an idol worshipped by countless young people, and he is also the goal of those young people living in poverty. He explained the meaning of the American Dream to all young people.
Z------zilch (normal person) standing with Iverson, can you feel like he's a basketball player? He feels like a big brother playing on the next court. It is this height close to normal that brings him high popularity, which is also an important reason why his affinity is incomparable to Kobe Bryant and O'Neal!
Yu Yang sighed secretly: "I didn't expect that 26 letters could summarize Iverson vividly." I can't imagine what I'll see next. Finally, here's the point:
Iverson comes from a single-parent family, and his mother, Anne, gave birth to him when she was 15 years old. Anne was never married, which meant that Iverson and his two younger sisters never received fair social treatment from the beginning. Iverson's biological father never had any meaning in his life. He lived in Connecticut until Iverson was born, and he did not pay a penny for Iverson's life until he was imprisoned for the murder of his girlfriend, with whom he met only three times.
Memories of Iverson's entire childhood may have been nothing more than sewage and the smile of his mother, who was living in Hampton, Virginia, on a sewer pipe that often burst, leaving the Iverson family completely flooded with sewage from the entire city.
The stench of the receding sewage can permeate his home for weeks, leaving his two younger sisters sick and Anne working 18 hours a day to keep the family afloat. With their water and electricity services often cut off due to non-payment, Iverson's ailing sister can never receive proper medical treatment, and the family faces not only food and clothing, but the most basic possibility of survival.
But Anne was constantly filling the family with joy and love in all sorts of ways, and Iverson said of her mother years later: "She did everything she could!" ”
Anne's boyfriend, Michael. Freeman was Iverson's de facto father, and he spent half of his life in prison. After a car accident in 1991 left Freeman unemployed, desperate to sustain the family, he began drug trafficking until he remained incarcerated at Newport Virginia, where Iverson spent four months in 1993.
No one thinks drug trafficking is condonable. But Freeman's argument in court told the story of the living conditions of the black population at the bottom of the United States: "I didn't buy a Cadillac or a diamond, I just paid my bills." "This bill definitely includes Iverson, who hasn't started making money with basketball yet.
Iverson has always been proud of his father, who is serving a prison sentence, "He didn't rob anyone. He simply went out of his way to feed his family. You can never imagine how much he loves his home, and if he comes out of prison to find that he is the only one left in the house, he will kill himself immediately. ”
Iverson visited Freeman in prison in 1996. When he found that Freeman's clothes and shoes were in tatters, he immediately took off his basketball shoes and handed them to Freeman. That day. The first thing Iverson did when he walked home barefoot was to hug his mother and cry.
Iverson recalls his childhood: "When I came home, there was no electricity. There is no food, sometimes there is no water, sometimes there is water, but there is never hot water. The room smelled of rot forever, and the walls were damp and moldy, but I didn't think it was hell, and I believed that heaven would be nothing more than that when I saw my mother smiling as she walked over. Most NBA players are in a similar situation to Iverson, for whom the only bargaining chip to escape from the bottom is their God-given basketball talent.
Anne first discovered Iverson's talent, and despite his small size, he had a strong congenital bouncing, so she asked Iverson to start basketball. But Iverson felt that basketball was a bit of a sissy, he hated basketball and loved football.
When Anna used half of her life savings to buy Iverson a pair of basketball shoes, Iverson started basketball that day. Anne told him, "You have to give everything for basketball, and this is the only chance to change the way your life is." This phrase played a crucial role in Iverson's later career, and the skinny Iverson told himself in the NBA against all the brawny men: "This guy is trying to take away everything I have now, trying to throw me back into that house built on a sewer." This always made him fight with anger.
There's also an episode of Iverson's imprisonment, and I think it's definitely inspiring: There's no sunny story in Iverson's life, especially in Virginia, which has a "fine tradition" of racism. Iverson's imprisonment in 1993 continues to influence the league's perception of him and, of course, the world. (To be continued......)