Reply With Quote
I love A.I. I really do. This story makes me a little sad.
Philadelphia Magazine
Read the rest Here.Allen Iverson: Fallen Star
With his NBA career over, his marriage in trouble, and rumors swirling about drinking and money problems, the greatest Sixer of his era finds himself playing minor-league basketball in Turkey and spending his nights at a T.G.I. Friday’s in Istanbul. Isn't it, weirdly, exactly how we always thought it would end for Allen Iverson?
I'm operating on extreme hope. I am in Instanbul All I know is that Allen Iverson is here — in this city of 13 million, with one foot in Asia and one in Europe — to play basketball. His manager keeps saying no, that Allen won’t talk to me. So I ask the concierge in my hotel: If you’re Allen Iverson — the greatest thing to ever hit Turkish basketball — where do you go to meet women?
“Reina,” he tells me. “Yes, Club Reina — on the Bosphorus.”
Reina is a place with a metal detector at the entrance, and chandeliers and fireplaces and lighted floors and a DJ and lovely people on the inside. You can walk out onto a pier to check out the lapping Bosphorus River, which connects the Black and Mediterranean seas, and gaze up at the Asian moon, and sip drinks for 20 lira.
I go up to a young woman in a tank top and impossibly tight jeans and three-inch shiny black heels, who’s having a drink with another woman and a man. She is dark and beautiful. I ask her if she speaks English. Yes. I tell her I’m in Istanbul to write about Allen Iverson. She smiles a bit of a devilish smile.
“I met him last night.”
The hottest girl in the hottest club, 24 years old. Allen Iverson has already met her. She’s a dead ringer for the character Sloan in Entourage — the same prettiness and almost over-the-top sexiness coupled with sweetness and, I quickly find out, smarts.
Along with her friend, the silent Turk to my right, she went to Iverson’s first game in Istanbul the night before, in a home arena so tiny — it seats 3,200 — she could easily find Iverson’s manager, Gary Moore, and tell him how she studied at Georgetown. Iverson’s school! So Moore naturally invited her to join Iverson and his crew at their post-game haunt, the place where he’s been hanging out with his slightly downsized America-to-Istanbul posse, in this lovely ancient city:
T.G.I. Friday’s.
I love A.I. I really do. This story makes me a little sad.
Extremely depressing. I sure hope he did not truly blast all his money away gambling.
Istanbul is a monster city. Top 5 city to party, go out and live in IMO.
The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.
AI will be dead before his 50th birthday.
^Sometimes the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the one.
God AI is in a terrible shape right now.
No sympathy.
What was so terrible about the article? When iverson declares bankruptcy, I'll call him an idiot. Since he hasn't, I don't see what is so terrible about going to Istanbul to play basketball (for 2mill a year, no less).
Shut up you idiots. He brought it on himself. No need to feel sorry for a jackass.
Still, he is in better shape than Francis or Marbury.
brought what on himself? its amazing some of you guys talk about leaving the states as a fate worse than death
so he is banging phat es. What is there to be sad about again?
Haha, what?
Banging prime pussy on the Bosphorus while getting paid to play basketball is a pretty solid deal, I'd say.
http://sports.yahoo.com/nba/news?slug=ap-iverson-injuryIverson needs rest from leg injury
Former NBA star Allen Iverson will not have surgery on a painful calcium mass that developed on his right calf.
Iverson left his Turkish team earlier this month because of the injury.
He visited Dr. James Andrews on Monday in Birmingham, Ala., and learned surgery he feared was necessary was not needed.
Andrews says the calcification is in a precarious spot that pressures the main nerve and artery that runs down Iverson’s leg. Andrews says Iverson will miss at least six to eight weeks.
He says Iverson should be able to resume his career after a prolonged period of rest.
“We anticipate a full recovery and certainly anticipate him being able to resume a normal basketball career after a conservative period of time,” Andrews said in a statement released through Iverson’s manager.
Iverson, the NBA’s Most Valuable Player in 2001 with Philadelphia, agreed to a $4 million, two-year deal with Besiktas after no NBA team offered him a contract.
Iverson posted on his Twitter feed Monday that he hoped to rejoin Besiktas in time for the playoffs.
“Unfortunately, he did not do himself any good trying to play through his pain and finally had to shut it down and seek further medical attention,” Andrews said.
He he protest the loudest...
poor guy. he has to live in istanbul while picking up hotties. what a sad world we live in.
, i go to tgif to hang out...
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
