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

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🗓️ 6 May 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	Justin Tensley is the 20th anniversary of what a lot of people call a rant but feels more to me straight up like just
0:06.6	One of the great oratories one of the great Salila quees in sports history. Yeah, I call it a stream of consciousness
0:15.6	We send it here. I suppose to be the franchise player and we ain't here talking about practice
0:20.4	I mean listen, we're talking about practice not a game not a game not a game
0:26.8	We talking about practice and Justin. I'm not sure there's a more famous bit of sound
0:33.0	Anywhere else in modern sports history. I'm not sure there's a piece of sports culture
0:37.2	That's more imitated more celebrated more derided than what Alan Iversen told the world on May 7th
0:44.6	2002
0:45.8	Alan Iversen is one of the more
0:48.6	Analyze
0:49.5	Pertink and documented athletes at least of the last 30 years and when you ask a lot of people
0:55.7	Let's just say a casual basketball fan a casual
0:59.1	Surveyor of pop culture when you say Alan Iversen more often than not people will be like practice. Yes, we talk about practice
1:07.3	not a game
1:08.9	Not a not a not the game that I go out there and die for and play every game like is my last not the game
1:16.7	We're talking about practice man
1:18.7	Before even the multiple seasons of averaging 30 points in a game
1:33.8	He won league MVP
1:35.8	2001 NBA MVP Alan Iversen
1:40.1	The finals against the Lakers and that amazing game won against them. No, they talk about practice
1:57.3	comedians have bits about this thing right we're talking about practice
2:03.3	We're talking about the game. There's a whole monologue on Ted Lasso
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