Allen Iverson: You Had To Be There (with J.A. Adande)

Book of Basketball 2.0

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4.8 • 5.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 89 minutes

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In the first episode of Season 3, Bill Simmons and J.A. Adande break down Allen Iverson’s incredible career, the surreal experience of seeing him in person, why he belatedly became one of the league’s most beloved superstars, and where he ranks in Bill’s hall of fame pyramid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	If you missed the first two seasons of the Book of Basketball 2.0 podcast, we covered some great
0:04.6	players and great games in season one and we redrafted all the drafts from 1996 to 2010 in season two.
0:11.2	This is season three. The Book of Basketball podcast is also brought to you by the ringer
0:15.9	and the ringer podcast network where you can find my podcast, the Bill Simmons podcast as well as
0:21.6	over 30 podcasts on sports, pop culture, politics, narrative podcasts, a whole bunch of other
0:27.0	things. I hope you're checking out all of those. So if you remember in season one, we hit a bunch
0:33.1	of the famous players and games from the last 35 years plus Bill Russell as well. Season two,
0:40.8	we redrafted every draft from 1996 to 2010, which really started on my podcast and then
0:47.2	just became something we were doing when there was no basketball during the pandemic. Now we're back
0:51.5	to our roots here. Here's season three. We are going to do players only, people on my hall of
0:57.0	fam pyramid, people who resonate differently in 2020 than maybe they did when they put. So that's
1:05.0	the conceit for season three. Very excited for this. My name is Bill Simmons. This is the Book of Basketball.
1:21.6	The Book of Basketball. Alan Iverson. As the years and decades pass, we'll see Alan Iverson and
1:47.9	Bob Koozy picked apart by an army of stack guys looking to undermine their careers. And that's fine.
1:53.6	Just know that Iverson passed a season ticket test for nearly a decade.
2:00.3	That's when your season tickets arrive in the mail. You invariably check the schedule,
2:04.2	mark certain camp misgames. You stick those dates in a calendar. You measure those camp misgames by
2:10.0	rivalry superstars, incoming rookies and the murky. I need to see that guy factor. And that's it.
2:17.4	From 1998 to 2007, Alan Iverson always made my season ticket list. So I don't give a crap about
2:23.9	Iverson's win shares. How is Perth 36 numbers? Weren't that good? How is the lowest shooting percentage
2:30.0	of any top 50 all-time score? Whatever else you throw at me. Every ticket to a Y2K Iverson game,
2:36.2	guaranteed a professional first-class performance. No difference from reservations that if five-star
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