Allen Iverson Memphis Grizzlies Press Conference 09/10/09 [HD]

[giordun]

Iverson lied.

[eagleboy201]

ha ha yeah we all know Iverson lied he hates the grizzlies........... The people there and that team disrespected him A.I. wanted to come (HOME) to his true team he wanted to be with his true fans....................A.I. is back home in philly were he belongs.

[craigis123]

@giordun how, what happend?

[jasperytlau]

Put aside everything that he has said before or done that was wrong. Yall must admit he has got a really big heart for basketball

[oscarmay25]

Fail

[garzers]

sad

[eagleboy201]

screw memphis iverson is coming back to the city that loves him he is coming back to the city that made him who he is today he is coming back to his true team the team that he enjoyed playing for and gave 110% every game for a decade. (Were not talking about practice or the game were talking about iverson the answer for the sixers) A.I is coming home were he belongs and will one day retire in a sixer uniform. And hey chris incase your wondering he got that eye of the tiger from philly.

[DLeake]

Im from Memphis and im glad it didnt work out. This guy would of been a ball hog and he doesnt fit into the team concept.

[eagleboy201]

A.I. would ev been the best player on that team and and you know it. But thats ok cause iverson could care less about memphis and that franchise. A.I. found out that lou williams got hurt so he just said he wanted to retire so he could get realesed from the grizzlies and come home to philly were he belongs he wanted to come back to his true team and his true fans and in a couple years retire as a sixer. I hope the sixers play memphis this season A.I. will embarrass that that grizzlies defense.

[DLeake]

A.I. wouldnt of been the best player on the Grizzlies. He just makes his teammates worse. The guy was known to give his teammates two opportunities to shoot and if they messed both up he wouldnt pass to them.

Mediocre teams call for A.I. you wont see Cleveland, Lakers, Denver, or Orlando giving him a call. Hes not a team player and he still has back problems because he was moving slow in that grizzlies uniform.

Hes a spoiled Diva....a future hall of famer but he still hasnt grown up

[eagleboy201]

yes he would have been the best player if he passes the ball to somebody like 3 or 4 times and they mess up then they suck offcourse he wont pass them the ball if he knows they were going to mess up. And philly is a big market the sixers have a lot more history than the grizzlies. Julis erving was one of the best to ever play. When A.I. came to the grizzlies he actaully made that team known for a couple weeks.

[DLeake]

True he brought exposure to the team but we are getting exposure now...because we are winning. The Grizzlies have been a nightmare to most teams this year and that includes your 76ers..... A rich history doesnt make for a big market. Yall are no where near LA or NY when it comes to capspace. Even with Iverson you guys have a worser lineup then us.

[eagleboy201]

without Iverson yeah you guys have a better line up thats cause we have a lot of young players drew holiday is only 19 he's the youngest player in the nba. But when A.I. returns monday the sixers will turn things around and start winning but with A.I. the sixers have the better roster than the grizzlies.

[DLeake]

No way in Hell the 76ers have a better roster. Iguodola is great but his future isnt as bright as Rudy Gay. We have OJ Mayo, Zach Randolph and a beast in Marc Gasol. 76ers will easily be out rebounded...you saw what happened a few days back when yall played the Grizz. Haha

[eagleboy201]

yeah we do have a better roster drew holiday is only 19 the youngest player in the nba and he is already averaging 17 points a game so his future is a lot more bright than Rudy Gay. And if the 76ers play the grizzies again this season all the players you just mentioned aint going to be able to walk cause they will all have broken ankles by the time A.I. is done with em lol.

[jazzmo3]

Exactly.

Iverson didn't belong in a small market like Memphis.

[eagleboy201]

yeah A.I. derseves to come home I think he will be the same dominate player and also he still got a couple years left and he will retire a sixer. He didnt derserve to be with some pathetic city and team like memphis. It was on espn that Iverson told somebody he would of came back to philly for free.

[DLeake]

Philly isnt exactly a big market either. If Iverson is so good why he accept the minimum

[jazzmo3]

Philly is a huge market. Im pretty sure its the 3rd or 4th biggest...behind only NY, LA, and Chicago.

The city itself is in the top 5 biggest cities in the country, and the surrounding suburbs are very densely populated. NJ is the most dense state, and PA is in the top 5 im sure.

[DLeake]

nothing to do with their bad capspace.

[jazzmo3]

True. They have no money, you are right.

I was just talking about market size. And i was talking about that because I was saying that Iverson draws a croud wherever he goes. He's very entertaining on the court and off the court with his personality. He's a household name and doesn't belong on a team that has a small audience.

[frostbyte901]

F**kin Bullsh*t! If your intentions were to win why make him a bench player?! Man if i was managing a team their is now way this guy is on the bench unless he's hurt and cant play otherwise he starts on my team lol.

[dmx7789]

lol... how pathetic is this.. in hindsight.

[worm73]

Way to jerk the city around AI

[mikeruck2888]

AI my fav player....and it pisses me off dat he doesnt wanna sacrifice 4 a ring! It frustrates me so fuckn much! It doesnt make sense bcuz even if he doesnt start at da beginnin of da season he should kno hell end up startn! And if hes done erthing else...y not jus win a ring....AT ALL COST. Dats all dats left...erthing else is 4 da birds AI. And da things he says pisses me off 2...on da court hes 1 of da best tho and dats where he bcame my fav player and he will remain. I hope he stays to play.

[Younggunzjr]

he will sacrifice but why sacrifice when your players and coaches arent puttin in 100percent. he feels like he is sacfricing for nothing. Iverson has confidence in his game and he should be. Iverson showed that he is the most effective player when he came off the bench. he makes the whole team better. Iverson is the best player on that team. Im sure Iverson wouldnt comlain if they were winning. but they are not and the grizzlies should try to put him in the starting lineup. A.I my fav player too

[mikeruck2888]

Da thing is he is their most effective player off da bench..if he had kept playn he wouldve easily bcame a starter where he blongs killin on da court..but I cant understand how any comments can b made after 1 game. As far as 100%..we can say dat about Detroit..but da Grizzlies r so young we dnt kno wat their 100% is yet..and I dnt even kno da coach honestly. But I understand abt sacrificin 4 a young team who isnt winnin, and not known da outcome of whether or not dey could win if he wz startn.

[Younggunzjr]

thats true if he stayed and AI has played 3 effective games. but i would have left too. it looks like the grizzles are using him for 1 season just to sell tickets and the grizzlies are just developing there young players. it just looks like the grizzles are not about winning and any team knows when you sign any veteran player that you have 2 hold up a little on developing young players. but u need veteran players like AI 2 lead the team against other great teams. look at the games. its all there

[JaBlingBling552]

Okay Allen Iverson is complete BEAST MODE, he deserves 3949 rings!

[NBAMixerMan]

hey, why didnt he play? did he play???

[Whitemoundi]

AI is the best i just think he never got the chance to have a good coach. Remember Kobe Bryant when he first land at Lakers he was lucky he met a great coach. Don't get me wrong with his talent he should have already won if it wasn't for his lack of the coaches he has had since then

[jb81512]

the best of players never got a ring. the grizzilies aint goint to the playoffs dis year. he said he would not have signed if he dint think they were contenders but he signed cuz no one else wanted him.

[kingmoe1372]

That didn't stop Steve Nash

from being successful bitch.!

[FiliPin0PriDeSterZ]

Hey, guys, listen to me, AI SPECIFICALLY said, tht he wud not sign a contract if his intentions, were just making it to the playoffs, one mistake he makes, and people critisize him, c'mon, he going to PROVE he GONNA PROVE he will lead the teams, way beyond the play offs, AND!! there WILL, be a RING on his finger, ya'll undrstnd me.. all he needs is for us to give him faith, and lead him on,

one mistake isnt the end of the world, remeber who he is! Hes Allen Iverson....

[wcwembry12]

Allen will be better off in Memphis. He will be happier because he said that he "wants" to play in Memphis. Everybody knows that he only wanted a spotlight in Memphis because him and RIP couldn't share a spotlight. They didn't get along so, yea, Allen......good bye and good riddance :(

[timeless211]

real talk i think he's ready to get that ring. i mean the guy's got plenty of accomlishments..i think he's ready to be "part of a team" and retire his jersey with the respect of the people he's playing with an of course, a ring on his finger.

[autherine3]

a i no what he gotta do

[unick4ever]

LETS GO! TO THE NEXT LEVEL!!

[Magic4231]

At 3:44, It seemed like Allen said, "Having my wife not knowing where we were gonna fuck". LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[aznpowerdaniel]

damnnnn grizzlies sounds sick sick on paper

ai, rudy gay, oj mayo, randolph, tabheet, gasol, arthur, conely

but my question is whos goin 2 dish the ball

cuz u hav 4 great scorers but somebodies gonna hav 2 dish 2 ai, rudy gay, oj, nd randolph

[susukek]

a.i can assit, too dont forget that

[brinmcphin]

every1 can score, but every1 can pass too

[xxismellasmellxx]

Memphis Grizzlies NBA champions 2010-2011..

[Y0ungm1x]

Lets go Grizzlies!!!

[undertakerfu]

stop dreaming, if he can bring grizzlies to play off, that's his biggest achievement ever. Lakers will continue to make history dude

[greenmatrix151023387]

oh and btw mattmisgod???

and 10 big black men on an asian

hmm interesting choice of words there

if it were me??? those would not what i would chose 2 describe it

if anything , the better team won

[DiiNo165]

suck my dick MattMisGOD ur the only thing thats pathetic u worthless son of a bitch. AI will cross u, ur mother, ur sister, and ur grandma u asshole. SUCK MA DICK AND SWALLOW MA KIDS U BITCH!!!!

[Melo15xSTAT1]

Grizzlies are going to the playoff.

they'll take the #6 spot.

GO SUNS!

[emmanuelb]

dont be suprised if memphis is like the 04-05 phoenix suns and ai is an mvp canidate this team has alot of scorers they are absolutely a playoff team

[Blackjesus3]

ai is the man

[MattMisGOD]

LOL at Iverson thinking he's going to make it to the Finals next year.

I doubt they will even make it to the playoffs. Iverson IS washed up, and he WISHES that he was able to play like he did his rookie season.

[Jaythechosen1]

im pretty sure his 01 and 05 seasons were better than his rookie season. there is a reason why he is one of the greatest players ever, for some reason stupid people like you try to bring him down. AI is the man

[MattMisGOD]

He was actually my favorite player for a while, but grew tired of him with his selfish play.

The 76ers are more successful now with a worse team than AI had, he made the Nuggets worse, and was a failure in Detroit. He is NOT a team player, and has yet to make a team great.

Yes, I know. He made the finals. That was a fluke, and got dominated when he finally played against a good team in the playoffs. Going 7 games against teams that only won 50/52 in the season is proof.

[Jaythechosen1]

none of that changes the fact that iverson is still one of the greatest players.

[MattMisGOD]

The fact that you basically make teams worse makes you a great player?

Odd...

[Jaythechosen1]

the fact that you are one of the NBA leading scorers of all time, and possibly the greatest guard makes you a bad player?

even more odd...

[MattMisGOD]

Possibly the greatest guard?

Wow.

That's more pathetic than trying to bragging about his steals, acting as if he was good on defense.

[Jaythechosen1]

haha you need to go to school, learn some english, then write it again so we know what your saying.

google his stats, have a look, stop trying to bring someone who has an enormous amount of tallent down for no reason.

[MattMisGOD]

Oh. How cute. I use a wrong word because I have so many thoughts in my head after you attempt to say that AI may be the greatest guard of all time.

Some people don't proof-read what they type.

Oh, and let's pick up some words that you meant to type, and just spelled them wrong.

haha - Not a word

english - English

your - you're

google - Google

On top of that, your sentence structure is so flawed, that I'm not even going to point out those errors.

Go back to the 3rd grade, kiddo.

[Jaythechosen1]

haha your funny, but wrong. same as the things you write, funny but wrong.

[MattMisGOD]

Wow. I even told you how to spell 'your' correctly, and you still can't do it.

No wonder you think AI may be the greatest guard of all time. I can't even fathom how ignorant you are.

[Jaythechosen1]

YOUR hilarious. some people get so worked up. All you need to do is look at the stats and the awards he has won.

[MattMisGOD]

AI is the perfect example of 'stats don't matter'

He's a terrible passer, and the most selfish of his time(with Kobe) yet he has decent assists because every once in a while he'll pass it to an open man when he drives and can't take a shot.

His steals causes more problems than they create, because he gambles nearly every defensive play causing the team to play 5 on 4.

And his FG% is weak, so just because he gets a lot of points only means it's because he shoots way too much.

[Jaythechosen1]

Your right, he got all his awards for nothing.

[MattMisGOD]

What awards? 1 MVP title where he made a sucky team beat sucky teams and then lost when they actually played against a decent team in the playoffs?

Go him. He's go great.

[Jaythechosen1]

ok expert

[mexicosup]

they got to the finals dumbass and loss to kobe the rapist and shaq the biggest cheater in the nba

[MattMisGOD]

Yeah, they made it to the Finals by beating teams in the East that would have been lucky to make the playoffs in the East. They lost well nearly 80% of their games in the season against Western Conference teams, and got lucky to win 1 game in the Playoffs against them.

[williamwhitley8]

ok well u sond dumb AS HELL CAN I SLAP U CAN I KICK U IN UR THROAT DUDE

[phillyboiz4lyfe]

and yet he's in the hall of fame

so shut up he's still very good

[Jaythechosen1]

some people dont look at evidence, just their own opinion. nice comment

[phillyboiz4lyfe]

stfu he still get steals dont he

he does wut he does to win so quit bitchin n get a life

[MattMisGOD]

He gets steals because he gambles so much. It comes from playing the passing lane, but more often he DOESN'T get the steal, and leaves his team to play 5 on 4, which isn't worth it.

He shot less than 40% the year he got MVP! HAHA, he also only won a FEW games the WHOLE season against teams that even won 50% of their games! PATHETIC!

He's in the hall of fame? Since when, lmao?

[greenmatrix151023387]

u call making the finals a fluke???

*shakes head in disbelief*

[MattMisGOD]

The top 3 teams in the East are the only ones that even won over 50 games, and the other two were 52 and 50. They went 7 games against 2 terrible Eastern teams that just so happened to be 2 of the top 3. The Eastern conference was pathetic that whole season, and it showed when the Lakers dominated them like they didn't even come close to seeing while playing other Eastern teams.

[greenmatrix151023387]

and what were the eastern teams???

i don;t really remember much of 2002 2 b honest

[MattMisGOD]

The Bucks won 52, Miami 50. Over half of the teams in the East had a LOSING season, where they couldn't even win 50% of their games. So with the 76ers being able to win 56 games where the majority of his games were against teams that couldn't even win 50%...it's kind of sad.

And as soon as they stepped on the court in the Finals against a Western team, they got raped worse than 10 big black men on an asian woman.

[greenmatrix151023387]

well just bcuz a team that wins 52 or 50 games in the regular season and loses in the playoffs .....thas not new....u see it all the time in the league

the sixers won games cuz they had help

mutumbo, eric snow and others it wasn;t just iverson...i mean he still scored... but he had help

and yeah they lost 2 the lakers

but it was because the lakers were 2 much for them but remember iverson dominated that one game and it was the talk of the town

but in the end it wasn;t enuff

[MattMisGOD]

They were only 52 and 50 in the east. Where most of their games were against teams that were below 50% winning.

That means they would have been MUCH worse if they actually had good teams to play against.

Black men are usually the biggest, and Asians are usually the smallest. Give a better example?

[hansquita]

OH MAN!!! I JUST BOUGHT HIS NEW SHOE (answer xii) AND NOW HE'S IN MEMPHIS OH GREAT!!! atleast he has a team again!! go ai!!

[stephoshark]

allen iverson is a really good player

[AvEryBadApPLe]

memphis, lmao!

[royalty890]

Man Iverson seems so focused this season. I mean it's a different side of him I've seen.

[oscareric2007]

his teammates looked really pissed at the press conference

[Kickzi]

Somebody knows the name of the song?

[Kickzi]

Ok I know it, the name of the Song's

Audible - Beneath the winter snow

[kenjie222]

this is the times when you define your self when you are on the downside of your life, for AI its not just about basketball anymore but he takes it more personal he wants to prove to the world that he is not finish yet, that lit the fire inside him the competitive nature in his rookie year revives, this is not a great time for any nba team to play against iverson, we are about to witness something extraordinary in this coming nba season for AI

[zachallen23]

your right a.i. is ready this season

[Guerrillachop]

yea he is gonna be averagin phenominal numbers next season....they prolly will make it to the playoffs

[anthonyyy18]

whats the sickass song in the background.

[SanskritZ]

go iverson woott sickkest player ever !

[ThrowItPac]

But this is why he's my favourite all-time player, he's got the heart and determination unlike no other, you can't fake that sort of shit.

[ThrowItPac]

If they figure out the chemistry issues, they could do alright. But there's only one ball and they got Gay, AI, Mayo and Randolph. But I think Conley should go to the bench.

[liason514]

I respect AI but he has chemistry issues. When he plays the point, he dribbles way too much and doesnt make his teamates better so the coach has put him at the 2 but then their backcourt becomes way too small and the point guard usually is a bench type of player. It happen everywhere he went. AI should become a bench player.

[AllenIverson1RING]

let go AI

[impriz]

memphis wont win the championship but they are definitely going to the playoffs

[OmarQB3]

2010 NBA Champs, be real boy, these team hasn't even make it to the second round so, first worried about don't got sweep on the first, I think if this "Works" as much they will be a 6, 7 or 8 spot in the western conference, Anyways nice decision by AI, Nice to see number 3 again in his back

[RiSjAdE0803]

CHAMP...

[kalaboki]

Good luck in Memphis!!!

Iverson 4 ever!!!! :D

[nikiboi16]

prove them wrong A.I. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jannis124]

Go Iverson!

Grizzlies 2010 Champs!!!

[afonsoramos]

do you really believe that?

[5NikTheGreek5]

Iverson at Memphis...