EtomicB
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Iverson
Feb 15, 2012 19:24:49 GMT -5
Post by EtomicB on Feb 15, 2012 19:24:49 GMT -5
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Elvado
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Iverson
Feb 16, 2012 7:24:25 GMT -5
Post by Elvado on Feb 16, 2012 7:24:25 GMT -5
Very sad, but not all surprising. This is as clear a case of having to pay the piper as you can get. It is Tysonian in its scope.
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757hoyafan
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Iverson
Feb 16, 2012 13:27:57 GMT -5
Post by 757hoyafan on Feb 16, 2012 13:27:57 GMT -5
Very sad, but not all surprising. This is as clear a case of having to pay the piper as you can get. It is Tysonian in its scope. Do you care to explain?
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Elvado
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Iverson
Feb 16, 2012 13:56:56 GMT -5
Post by Elvado on Feb 16, 2012 13:56:56 GMT -5
Sure. Iverson spent/wasted his NBA fortune faster than he could earn it. He was all things to too many people all of whom were happy to go for the free ride. He never came to grips with the idea that his career might end and the 8 figure salaries would stop.
He danced to a very happy tune for a long time and had to pay the piper.
Unlike so many athletes gone broke, his downfall seems directly related to profligate spending rather than bad investments or being robbed my advisors.
The Tyson reference was simply to the magnitude of the fortune lost.
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Iverson
Feb 16, 2012 17:09:22 GMT -5
Post by AustinHoya03 on Feb 16, 2012 17:09:22 GMT -5
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kchoya
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Iverson
Mar 2, 2012 17:36:45 GMT -5
Post by kchoya on Mar 2, 2012 17:36:45 GMT -5
Sure. Iverson spent/wasted his NBA fortune faster than he could earn it. He was all things to too many people all of whom were happy to go for the free ride. He never came to grips with the idea that his career might end and the 8 figure salaries would stop. He danced to a very happy tune for a long time and had to pay the piper. Unlike so many athletes gone broke, his downfall seems directly related to profligate spending rather than bad investments or being robbed my advisors. The Tyson reference was simply to the magnitude of the fortune lost. Not so fast: www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/iverson_isn_broke_down_o9flvhfTwhRD1lNMWBFuyJ/0
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Iverson
Mar 2, 2012 17:46:32 GMT -5
Post by strummer8526 on Mar 2, 2012 17:46:32 GMT -5
Sure. Iverson spent/wasted his NBA fortune faster than he could earn it. He was all things to too many people all of whom were happy to go for the free ride. He never came to grips with the idea that his career might end and the 8 figure salaries would stop. He danced to a very happy tune for a long time and had to pay the piper. Unlike so many athletes gone broke, his downfall seems directly related to profligate spending rather than bad investments or being robbed my advisors. The Tyson reference was simply to the magnitude of the fortune lost. Not so fast: www.nypost.com/p/sports/more_sports/iverson_isn_broke_down_o9flvhfTwhRD1lNMWBFuyJ/0Didn't big John laugh it off in an interview once, or maybe on his show, saying that Allen wasn't broke?
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jgalt
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Iverson
Mar 4, 2012 15:17:03 GMT -5
Post by jgalt on Mar 4, 2012 15:17:03 GMT -5
"A person with a firm grip on the situation informs me Iverson has an account worth $32 million, a principal he is prohibited from touching until 55. In the meantime, it feeds him $1 million annually."
AI should be kissing the feet of who ever did this for him, whether he is broke or not.
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hifigator
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Iverson
Mar 8, 2012 11:42:45 GMT -5
Post by hifigator on Mar 8, 2012 11:42:45 GMT -5
Yeah, but it must totally suck to have all that money, but still have to barey squeek by on a paltry million bucks!
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hifigator
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Iverson
Mar 8, 2012 12:11:23 GMT -5
Post by hifigator on Mar 8, 2012 12:11:23 GMT -5
Also, this doesn't necessarily belong in this thread, but I don't think I need to start a new one, and it is at least tangentially on topic. As you all know, this time of year, the ESPN network shows a bunch of past conference tournaments as well as the 137 of them from this season. In any case, I caught parts of some old classice Hoya games. One in particular deserves mention. Patrick Ewing was being interviewed, and the "analyst" said something like "I'm sure you'd have loved to play with Allen Iverson." Ewing's answer was classic. Without pausing or seemingly giving the comment much thought he successfully praised AI and something to the effect that he would be honored to play with AI, yet the real point was that he was very fortunate to play with the great players that were on his teams. If I remember correctly, the game was from the '97 season. For some reason, the info for the programs never matched --probably because a live game went long or something. In fact, the first time I went to "the game" they were showing the Cuse-UConn game that went 4 overtimes. In any case, as we would all expect, Ewing was a class act and was tremendously poised.
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