The impact of Allen Iverson can’t be fully understood by those who weren’t fortunate to enough to feel it developing. No player, save for Michael Jordan, had more cultural clout than The Answer, and analyzing the play of few in league history incites more heated and varied on-court discourse than his.
Iverson remains a lightning rod as he nears 40, nearly five full years removed from his playing days. And as he’s so obviously keen to admit in this video for The Players’ Tribune, it’s a life-long reality with which he’s finally come to terms.
“A positive Allen Iverson story don’t sell,” he says. “Nobody wants to hear that.”
And near the video’s end, Iverson explains a realization that’s no doubt made his acclimation to post-basketball life far easier than it would be otherwise.
“You don’t have to know what type of father I am, what type of son I am, what type of brother, what type of friend, what type of family man, you don’t have to know that. As long as the people that I care about, and that love me, as long as they know, that’s the only thing that matters.”
IVERSON, a Showtime documentary profiling Bubba Chuck, premiered Saturday. We highly recommend checking it out.
(Via The Players’ Tribune)
