He wants out and we're ready to accommodate him. Iverson ended his year Philadelphia tenure with the highest scoring average in team history At the time of the trade, Iverson was the NBA's number two leading scorer with new teammate Carmelo Anthony being number one. On December 23, , Iverson played his first game for the Nuggets.
He had 22 points and 10 assists in a losing effort to the Sacramento Kings. In Iverson's first year as a Nugget, they made the playoffs. They won the first game and lost the next four to the San Antonio Spurs. During the course of the game, Iverson committed two technical fouls and was ejected from the game. After the game, Iverson said, " I thought I got fouled on that play, and I said I thought that he was calling the game personal I should have known that I couldn't say anything anyway.
It's been something personal with me and him since I got in the league. This was just the perfect game for him to try and make me look bad. In a December interview with 60 Minutes , Donaghy said he and fellow referees thought the punishment was too light. Before Iverson's Nuggets played the Utah Jazz on January 6, , Donaghy said he and the two other officials working the game agreed not to give Iverson favorable calls as a way to "teach him a lesson".
Iverson attempted 12 free throws, more than any other player on either team. On 12 drives to the basket, he drew five fouls, three of which Donaghy whistled himself, and did not receive a call on one play in which he was obviously fouled by Utah's Mehmet Okur. Iverson returned to Philadelphia on March 19, , to a sell-out crowd and received a standing ovation in a — loss. Iverson, who had worn a 3 jersey his entire NBA career, switched to number 1 for the Pistons, which Billups previously wore for the team.
Iverson scored at least 24 in four of his first five games with Detroit They won 3 of the 5 , and would score 20 or more and 6 or more assists on a consistent basis, but as the season wore on he would lose playing time to Rodney Stuckey.
Some have speculated that Pistons President of Basketball Operations Joe Dumars did not envision a long-term role for Iverson on the team, but traded for him to make Stuckey the point guard of the future and free cap space with Iverson's expiring contract. On April 3, , it was announced that Iverson would not play the remainder of the —09 season.
Dumars cited Iverson's ongoing back injury as the reason for his deactivation, although two days prior Iverson stated publicly that he'd rather retire than be moved to the bench as Pistons coach Michael Curry had decided.
On September 10, , Iverson signed a one-year contract with the Memphis Grizzlies. Iverson stated that " God chose Memphis as the place that I will continue my career ", and that " I feel that they are committed to developing a winner. However, Iverson again expressed his displeasure at being a bench player, and left the team on November 7, for "personal reasons". On November 16, the Grizzlies announced the team terminated his contract by "mutual agreement".
Iverson played three games for the Grizzlies, averaging On November 25, , analyst Stephen A. Smith published on his blog a statement attributed to Iverson announcing plans for retirement, which also said, " I feel strongly that I can still compete at the highest level.
Less than a week later on November 30, Iverson and his representatives met with a Philadelphia 76ers delegation about returning to his former team and accepted a contract offer two days later. General manager Ed Stefanski declined to go into the terms of the agreement, but an unnamed source told the Associated Press that Iverson agreed to a one-year non-guaranteed contract at the league minimum salary. Stefanski said the team made the decision to pursue Iverson after starting guard Louis Williams suffered a broken jaw and was expected to miss at least 30 games.
On December 7, , Iverson made his return to Philadelphia, garnering a thunderous ovation from the sold-out crowd, in a loss against his former team, the Denver Nuggets. He finished the game with 11 points, 6 assists, 5 rebounds, a steal, and no turnovers. Iverson's first win in his return to Philadelphia came one week later, in a point effort against the Golden State Warriors , ending the Sixers' game losing streak which stood at 9 games before Iverson returned.
He shot 70 percent from the field in the game. On January 3, , he returned to Denver to face the Nuggets; Iverson scored 17 points and had seven assists in the win. He was voted as a starter for the All-Star Game for the 11th straight season. On February 22, , Iverson left the 76ers indefinitely, citing the need to attend to his 4-year-old daughter Messiah's health issues, which he revealed years later as Kawasaki Disease.
On March 2, Ed Stefanski announced Iverson would not return to the 76ers for the rest of the season to deal with the personal matter. On October 26, , Yahoo!
Iverson was traded to the Denver Nuggets following 10 seasons with Philadelphia. He averaged Iverson spent the final years of his career with the Detroit Pistons and Memphis Grizzlies but returned to the 76ers for one season to cap his NBA career. Iverson retired with a playoff scoring average of The time All-Star won four scoring titles , '01, '02, '05 and led the league in steals three times. He ranks seventh all-time with His 24, total points are the 25th most in NBA history.
Critics pointed to his missed shots and turnovers, and wondered why, as a point guard, he wasn't passing the ball to his teammates. To some, he became a symbol of everything that was wrong with the NBA, his selfish play marking the demise of fundamental basketball, and his tattoos and cornrows celebrating its proliferation of street culture. Iverson embraced that image by releasing the rap single "40 Bars" in , and bolstered it with his arrests in , on misdemeanor marijuana and gun charges, and in , on more serious gun charges that were eventually dropped.
But there was no denying the breathtaking talent. Iverson led the league in scoring for the first time in , and earned his first All-Star selection the following year. Having moved to the shooting guard position, he averaged an NBA-best At the end of the year, he signed a lifetime contract with Reebok. Iverson continued to both amaze and frustrate his fans. He led the league in scoring and steals for the second consecutive season in , before concluding the campaign with a famous rant in which he seemingly mocked the importance of practice.
He won another scoring title in and averaged a career-best He briefly joined the Memphis Grizzlies before returning to Philadelphia in January , and played in what would be his final NBA game the following month. An time All-Star over his 14 seasons, he led the league in scoring four times and steals three times, and finished with an impressive average of Iverson sought to continue his basketball career overseas, but he lasted just 10 games with the Turkish club Besiktas before undergoing leg surgery in early High School: Bethel in Hampton, Virginia.
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