Iverson

Iverson quickly earned my respect and my heart and remained the most loved player in Philadelphia for his entire career with the Sixers. However we are about to come to the end of their quickly declining relationship and I just wanted to make a few points.

The fact is the Sixers have been actively trying to trade him since Larry Brown took over in 1997 (they actually did once to detroit in 2000) he hasnt had a second scorer since stackhouse, the team has been in a nosedive since 2001 he feels disrespected and underappreciated. He is tired of doing favors for the league and the team that keeps throwing him under the bus. He's given up trying to gain respect within the franchise and has finally had enough. He still loves the city and the fans and i doubt he wants to move to the west coast, but he has no choice he has 3 or 4 good years left and wants to parlay that into a championship for a franchise that appreciates what he does right, not just focuses on what he does wrong.

We have the worst GM and owner in the league who either know nothing about scouting and business (Billy King) or knows nothing about basketball and did not know he was chairman of a basketball team until a couple days ago (Ed Snider). Instead we trade the player who has given his heart and soul to the franchise for over a decade and instead you keep these two dumbasses who let the team become the laughing stock of the NBA. Iverson may not be a model citizen, but in this day of athlete shootings and drug busts it is wrong to single out a player who has done his best to avoid his past and make a better life for his kids. He may miss practices or other team events, but when the ball is tipped off you know he will leave it all on the court and as a fan that is all I ask. So I truly hopes Iverson gets on a good team and wins a championship because I will always be an Iverson fan, but for the Sixers...that remains to be seen.