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Allen Iverson had 3 career 50-point playoff games. Can you name the only 2 players in NBA history with more?

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Ann Iverson was 15 years old when she found out that she was pregnant with Allen, after she just made the girls basketball team at Bethel High School.

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On June 7 1975 Allen Iverson was born in Hampton

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Ann's boyfriend was fully out of Ann's and Allen's life, to leave Ann and Allen alone to live.

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Ann Iverson always loved basketball, but Allen didn't he loved football.

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Allen didn't want to play basketball because he thought it was a soft sport

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Allen attended Bethel High-school, the same school that his mother went to.

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In Allen's freshmen year he appeared on the boys varsity football team and playing wide receiver and safety

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In Allen's sophomore year he played quarterback/safety, which led Bethel High-school undefeated regular season and its first outright Peninsula District football title in fifteen years.

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When Allen was reaching the end of his high school career, Allen was planning to go play in the NBA, but he could't do that until he went to college for 1 year, so he committed to Georgetown university

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The way Allen played basketball his college coach had to change the way he coached to be able to coach Allen the correct way

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When Allen was almost done with his sophomore college season at Georgetown University, Allen was talking with his coach and says that he is going to enter the 1996 NBA draft

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Once Allen Iverson made the decision to leave Georgetown University and enter the 1996 NBA Draft, the next challenge was to become the first overall selection

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When Allen was at Draft Day he was nervous, and thinking that if he doesn't get the 1st overall pick, all the work that he did growing up would do nothing, and he wouldn't get his family out of poverty.

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Allen Iverson was the shortest player in the NBA draft, and he thought that because he was only 6´0 tall he wasn't going to get drafted

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Now it was time for the NBA commissioner Adam Silver to call the player that the Philadelphia 76's were going to pick. Allen heard the commissioner say "And with the first pick in the NBA draft the Philadelphia 76's pick Allen Iverson out of Georgetown University".

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At that time Allen sign an 11 year contract with the 76's for 9.12 million per year

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In the 2001 NBA season Allen Iverson won the MVP award after the NBA finals

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In the 2000-1 season Allen Iverson won the NBA steals title in 2.5 games!

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Allen Iverson played in the era that some of the greatest basketball players played in. Allen played against players like Michel Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Shaq, Dennis Rodmen, etc.

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Allen Iverson had one of the best careers in NBA history and it will go down in history. His play style was so unique, and so many people changed the way they played because they were influenced by him.