The biggest cancer in game history - Allen Iverson

[coined]

The game seen bigger cancer then him?

[Im Still Ballin]

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[keep-itreal]

http://www.northstarnewstoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/carmelo-anthony--230x300.jpg

[kurple]

AI had one cancerous season. Kobe had what, 7?

[coined]

AI had one cancerous season. Kobe had what, 7?


5 rings to 0

[Magic 32]

AI had one cancerous season. Kobe had what, 7?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsuMH15Ns0&t=2m22s

[AirFederer]

he was a shotjacker of low FG% and not the ideal team mate at times, but to call him "the biggest cancer in game history" is pure BS, and disrespectful for one of the best sub 6 foot guys ever.

[stalkerforlife]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmsuMH15Ns0&t=2m22s

What a clinic.

[Hey Yo]

According to most on here......J.R Smith was the biggest cancer in the league. Locker room killer.

Of course when Cleveland traded for him, all of a sudden he's being praised by the same people and saying he makes the Cavs stacked.

[Real14]

LeBron is the biggest cancer to the league.

[ArbitraryWater]

Nah... as a person in a social team setting he just doesn't work. One of the biggest for sure.

[JohnMax]

DeMarcus Cousins

[AirBonner]

Marbury

[Smoke117]

Agreed. By far the most overrated player to ever play in the NBA.

[KiiiiNG]

Cousins, Kobe, Marbury, Iverson, Kobe, Rondo to a degree, Kobe, Rose, Current Wade, and Kobe just some names that come to mind

[tmacattack33]

:facepalm

Iverson went to the Finals and lead his team to a competitive 2nd round multiple times.

There are people like Marbury and Ricky Davis who never did either of those things. And Melo who never went to a Finals...despite having more talent around him than Iverson ever had.

[FatComputerNerd]

I think (if the old rumors are true), Delonte West wins this one hands down man down.

AI was not a cancer btw. Show some respect to one of the greatest of all time to do what he did.

[FatComputerNerd]

According to most on here......J.R Smith was the biggest cancer in the league. Locker room killer.

Of course when Cleveland traded for him, all of a sudden he's being praised by the same people and saying he makes the Cavs stacked.

J.R. was never known as a cancer. A cancer is one who breaks team chemistry or is disliked by others in the lockeroom.

J.R. was just known for being, as sir charles said, a knucklehead.

[NZStreetBaller]

The guy took the sixers to the finals and scratched the lakers perfect playoff record in an away game!!! And came up huge down the clutch after being locked down. He is not a cancer.

[Bankaii]

There's a reason the greatest playoff team in NBA history didn't go undefeated, and it's AI.

Besides, a Kobe fan talking about being a "cancer".
Put AI on the lakers in place of Kobe and they win from 2000-04 easily.

[smoovegittar]

It pained me to respond to this stupid-ass post, but your winner is Dwight, without question.

[Draz]

Marbury
This. End of discussion

[Born Sinner]

Lance stephenson

[bobopenguin]

Cousins, Kobe, Marbury, Iverson, Kobe, Rondo to a degree, Kobe, Rose, Current Wade, and Kobe just some names that come to mind

THIS, is the definition of rent free.
:lol

[Kblaze8855]

Like 6 people in this topic led either finals teams or teams with the best record in the NBA.

There are people who were stars and never won a series or had a 50 win season. But the biggest cancers or detriments to winning ever....were having 50-65 win seasons and knocking teams out of the playoffs? We just not thinking at all?

You watch NBA open court....6-7 NBA players, coaches, and gms on the panel....they talk the greatest since the first top 50 list came out AI was one of the undisputed. Multiple hall of famers had people contesting their spot. Nobody argues against AI. Basketball people always knew he was amazing.

Most of the hate he gets these days is from numbers freaks who dont know what it means to hedge on a pick and roll.

[Smoke117]

Like 6 people in this topic led either finals teams or teams with the best record in the NBA.

There are people who were stars and never won a series or had a 50 win season. But the biggest cancers or detriments to winning ever....were having 50-65 win seasons and knocking teams out of the playoffs? We just not thinking at all?

You watch NBA open court....6-7 NBA players, coaches, and gms on the panel....they talk the greatest since the first top 50 list came out AI was one of the undisputed. Multiple hall of famers had people contesting their spot. Nobody argues against AI. Basketball people always knew he was amazing.

Most of the hate he gets these days is from numbers freaks who dont know what it means to hedge on a pick and roll.

The Sixers got to the finals DESPITE Iverson in that series vs the Bucks. (with a little help from the refs)

[Kblaze8855]

Go on and spend 15 more years yelling that into the wind for nobody in the basketball world to care.

Even if you threw out 2001(an absurd notion to begin with) AI had more success than many hall of famers who often had much more talented and healthy rosters.

History is full of high efficiency non controversial losers who never led a team to a good record or won a playoff series. But AI, AI, AI.....

Like Dave Bing or Bob Lanier ever did anything....best playoff run they had together was after they somehow made the playoffs with 36 wins.

But Allen Iverson was just losing incarnate.....

[NuggetsFan]

The Sixers got to the finals DESPITE Iverson in that series vs the Bucks. (with a little help from the refs)

Iverson was basically the Sixers offense, sometimes to a fault. It was how there system worked. I just don't know how people can't see that. He had poor shooting efficiency, sometimes awful. Really the only knock on his game.

Even than in game 6 vs Milwaukee to close them out he dropped 44/7/6 on 51% shooting. Had 46 on 42% shooting the game before. He had 3 absurdly bad shooting nights but outside of the one game still managed to produce points. Had 9,8,9 dimes and grabbed boards too.

30/5/7 with 2+ steals and 3.2 turnovers. Shot .344 from the field which is awful but those Sixer teams needed all the points they could get. 31 FGA for 30.5 points a game because he lived at the line. That's with a 5-27 game, and a 5-26 game. Philly doesn't beat the Bucks without Iverson's scoring. Period.

The way those Sixer teams/Iverson in general he could have had better efficiency if he wasn't a one man wrecking crew. Those insanely bad games where he had no choice but to go down swinging drag his %'s down. I mean the next series he had to average 35.6 points game.

In 135 games with Denver Iverson averaged 25.6 points on .456% shooting. Playing with another scorer in Melo, more talent, and with the game geared more towards guards. 30+ out of his prime at this point.

[tmacattack33]

The Sixers got to the finals DESPITE Iverson in that series vs the Bucks. (with a little help from the refs)

Yes, which is why the Sixers lost game 3 when Iverson was injured and sat out.

[Wally450]

Agreed. Good thread OP.

[branslowski]

The way these dumb stat geeks re write history is just disgusting.:facepalm

[Reggie43]

Iverson may not have played the right way but very few people in the history of the game played as hard as him

[Wally450]

I'd live with 35 points from Iverson if it took him 31 shots to get it.

[Kiddlovesnets]

Of course he is, Allen Iverson is the definition of Cancer, the cancer of all cancers.

[Straight_Ballin]

According to most on here......J.R Smith was the biggest cancer in the league. Locker room killer.

Of course when Cleveland traded for him, all of a sudden he's being praised by the same people and saying he makes the Cavs stacked.

These same people being your typical Clevelander.

The same morons who burned his jersey when bron left, but then welcomed him back with open arms while on their knees.

The fanbase is pathetic as hell

"Oh but have sympathy for them... they haven't won shit since Jim Brown..."

Can't wait for 2/7. :no:

As far as AI is concerned, what I can tell you is that a 6'1, 165 lb player won MVP and took a long shit down every other players throat while he held that award up. Players of other sports were mocking NBA players saying "you let that little guy best you... wow...."