Talking About Practice: What Everyone Got Wrong About Iverson's Rant (Encore)

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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We’re talking about practice…no, really. It’s been 20 years since Allen Iverson’s infamous rant, the one you’ve seen clips of pretty much everywhere, where Iverson goes off in response to a question about his practice habits. That roughly one-minute sound bite has come to be one of the most lasting moments of Iverson’s career…but it was the rest of that press conference that truly offers a window into Iverson’s life and career. It was the culmination of frustrating ends to two consecutive seasons, grief over the murder of his best friend…and the microscope he had been under since he was 17 years old. Justin Tinsley joins us to reflect on Iverson’s press conference, the fallout from it, and what everyone got wrong in the two decades since. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So I think it's kind of appropriate that we are bringing you this episode today because
0:11.0	and by the way, hi, it's Pablo.
0:14.0	Because we're not working right now.
0:15.8	We're not practicing.
0:16.8	We're not working on our craft.
0:19.6	We're instead bringing you an episode about what I consider just one of the most memorable
0:28.0	iconic.
0:29.8	I think in pop cultural moments that I can recall and it turned out that Justin Tinsley was
0:36.0	the perfect person to help us pull back the curtain on what exactly Alan Iverson was talking
0:42.9	about and why so many of us, this is the real story there for so long.
0:50.9	Just Thursday, August 25th, and yeah, this is ESPN daily.
1:00.4	Justin Tinsley is the 20th anniversary of what a lot of people call a rant but feels more
1:05.1	to me straight up like just one of the great oratories, one of the great Salila quees in
1:10.1	sports history.
1:11.1	Yeah, I call it a stream of consciousness.
1:16.2	We sitting here, I suppose it would be the franchise player and we ain't here talking about practice.
1:21.6	I mean, listen, we're talking about practice.
1:24.8	Not a game, not a game, not a game, we're talking about practice.
1:30.3	And Justin, I'm not sure there's a more famous bit of sound anywhere else in modern sports
1:35.0	history.
1:36.0	I'm not sure there's a piece of sports culture that's more imitated, more celebrated,
1:39.9	more derided than what Alan Iverson told the world on May 7th, 2002.
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