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Allen Iverson. Kelly Dwyer. August 21, , PM. In this article:. Story continues. Recommended Stories. Patriots Wire. In the season Hardaway missed nearly the entire season with a devastating knee injury, and Hardaway never truly recovered from that, averaging Hardaway was sent to the Phoenix Suns in the summer of to play with point guard Jason Kidd, but unfortunately because of nagging injuries to both Kidd and Hardaway the two never really came together, and Kidd was traded away to the New Jersey Nets.
Hardaway's career, which included stops in Toronto, back to Phoenix, New York and Miami, was never really the same.
Oden has been plagued with knee injury after knee injury, resulting in at least four surgeries over the past four years. Entering his fourth season in the NBA, Oden has only played a total of 82 games. When Oden has been on the court he's produced at a pretty consistent level, averaging 9. Oden even led the Trailblazers to a playoff appearance during his "rookie" season in Sure, there's hope that Oden can recover from his recent micro-fracture surgeries and still have a productive NBA career, but if history tells us anything, it's that seven-footers recovering from recurring knee injuries is a rarity in the NBA.
There's a high likelihood that Oden will miss the entire shortened season, especially after undergoing yet another knee surgery just a few days ago.
After this season Oden will become an unrestricted free agent, and with so many questions surrounding his health there's a high likelihood that teams won't pull the trigger on him.
If no one signs Oden this offseason, there's a high likelihood that his career could be over, which is a shame because we've yet to see the best out of Greg Oden. Over the span of five years, Yao played games in China, which is part of the reason why his days in the NBA were cut short. In Yao's first three seasons in the NBA, he played all but two of the games, which led many to believe that Yao's massive 7'6'', pound frame could handle the pace and demands of the NBA.
Unfortunately, those three seasons were the only of Yao's eight-year NBA career that he actually played in nearly all 82 games. In the following five seasons, Yao played in only out of the possible games because of injuries to his left foot, right knee and left ankle. The Rockets tried to prolong Yao's career by limiting him to only 24 minutes per game, while also not playing him in back-to-back nights. Unfortunately that wasn't enough, as Yao developed yet another stress fracture in his left ankle that ultimately ended his career in the NBA.
In July of , Yao announced his retirement from the NBA after a productive eight-year career that ended with career averages of It's a shame that Yao's career had to end the way it did, but at least while he was healthy he was a productive player that helped bridge the gap between Chinese fans and the NBA. Brandon Roy's journey to the NBA was filled with hard work. It seems "paying his bills" wasn't on his to-do list.
The gumshoes at TMZ say Iverson's bank account has been garnished to pay an exorbitant jewelry bill. Per American custom, that's brought out snickers and finger wagging.
Now, he's years-old and can't even come up with the money to pay for bling he's too old to wear. People laugh when rich folks struggle. In this case, I see two levels of tragedy. There's the predictability of it all. Even the best adjusted athletes have a million factors to fight when their careers are done, from divorces to simply trying to fill the hours of each day without practices and games.
Plus, athletes, figurative lottery winners, are like the literal ones -- they often find a way to blow all their cash. The rest is the big stuff, the totality of Iverson's nearly four decades and what they meant to a generation of fans and observers who never met him. Even those who couldn't relate to him felt inclined to root for him, if only to spite those who despised him. He was readily associated with hip-hop, but Iverson was rock star from the same mold as all the great ones.
They grew up with the Stones, but gave Iverson the same lectures on his clothes that Jagger complained about on "Satisfaction. For people like me, Iverson's complaints were also ours.
His defenses of his own rap music were the same we offered our parents when they heard the words coming from our bedroom windows.
We wanted to wear t-shirts and sneakers everywhere, and we couldn't see what the big deal was, either. We were tired of being treated like criminals because of how we dressed. After being told for so long all the nonsensical compromises we would have to make to be successful, it warmed teenage hearts to see Iverson make it without doing any of those things.
It didn't feel like he was being knocked for his undeniable flaws, or even simply for being young and black. It felt like he caught hell for refusing to believe there was something wrong with who he was, how he dressed and how he wore his hair. It wasn't just a refusal to conform. It was a demand for his right to exist. He wasn't analyzed as much as he was indicted by his critics, many of whom never considered how truly impressive it was for someone from his side of the tracks to be a tax-paying millionaire.
So many treated him as if he were doomed, that he could never be more than he was as a jaded, immature man in his earlys. No matter what anyone thought he did in that bowling alley, or what they thought he deserved, he made it out. Talent alone won't do that for anyone. That's the sort of thing done by hook or crook, and there's no time on the back end to worry too much about how it got done. After suffering the worst in a dying shipping town, being caught on police cameras buying drugs for his mother like it was just a run to the store, the slim chance Iverson had to be successful panned out.
And successful he was. The city he played in, Philadelphia, loved him for his passion. His teams won.
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