Looks like the Sixers have found their answer.
Or at least an answer. Most people do not believe it is the correct answer. I happen to be among them.
What’s this all about? It is looking more and more like Allen Iverson is coming back to town.
The team has offered its former All-Star guard a one-year, non-guaranteed deal for what amounts to the NBA minimum.
In his heyday, Iverson was known as “The Answer.” In truth he really wasn’t. He certainly was a show, but he was not the answer. He took the Sixers to the NBA Finals in 2001, and even rocked the Wachovia Center by taking Game 1 vs. the Lakers. Of course, L.A. then won four straight.
That Game 1 was the apex of Iverson’s career. It’s been downhill since.
Now, after unsuccessful stints in Denver and Detroit, and an incredible three-game blip in Memphis, Iverson is coming home.
There is really only one reason for the Sixers to do this, and it has nothing to do with basketball. It has to do with business. No one is going to the Sixers game. They have disappeared from the local sports radar.
Iverson will change that. At least for a couple of weeks. But he will not change their big picture. In fact, he likely will set back the needed rebuilding of this once-proud franchise.
If Iverson signs the deal as expected today, he will disprove the old theory that “you can’t go home again.”
Déjà vu all over again. Just don’t look for the Sixers to make it back to the NBA Finals anytime soon.
Can they make the playoffs? Maybe. Sell more tickets? At least be entertaining. Probably.
Continue building a new team under a new system put in place by new coach Eddie Jordan? Wrong “Answer.”
Or at least an answer. Most people do not believe it is the correct answer. I happen to be among them.
What’s this all about? It is looking more and more like Allen Iverson is coming back to town.
The team has offered its former All-Star guard a one-year, non-guaranteed deal for what amounts to the NBA minimum.
In his heyday, Iverson was known as “The Answer.” In truth he really wasn’t. He certainly was a show, but he was not the answer. He took the Sixers to the NBA Finals in 2001, and even rocked the Wachovia Center by taking Game 1 vs. the Lakers. Of course, L.A. then won four straight.
That Game 1 was the apex of Iverson’s career. It’s been downhill since.
Now, after unsuccessful stints in Denver and Detroit, and an incredible three-game blip in Memphis, Iverson is coming home.
There is really only one reason for the Sixers to do this, and it has nothing to do with basketball. It has to do with business. No one is going to the Sixers game. They have disappeared from the local sports radar.
Iverson will change that. At least for a couple of weeks. But he will not change their big picture. In fact, he likely will set back the needed rebuilding of this once-proud franchise.
If Iverson signs the deal as expected today, he will disprove the old theory that “you can’t go home again.”
Déjà vu all over again. Just don’t look for the Sixers to make it back to the NBA Finals anytime soon.
Can they make the playoffs? Maybe. Sell more tickets? At least be entertaining. Probably.
Continue building a new team under a new system put in place by new coach Eddie Jordan? Wrong “Answer.”
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