關於 nba consensus ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

【2021：10大選秀網站 Mock Draft】

比起季後賽的纏鬥廝殺，樂透球隊找選秀資料來看～還是比較熱血興奮啦！

先前我貼了 Josh Giddey 和 Jalen Johnson，因為溜馬是 13 順位，這兩位全能前鋒比較有機會在 13 順位附近還在，所以有想像空間。但再來要找來介紹的人選，其落點趨勢就比較難測了，可能都介於樂透尾到首輪中段，先賣個關子，等我看完更多的資料之後，再來聊溜馬的第三個推估選秀人選。

但最近有「選秀資訊需求」的球隊應該會越來越多，我釋出一下我整理的『10大選秀網站』目前最新版本的 Mock Draft，提供給大家參考。

》tankathon（排行榜，一個月前更新）
http://www.tankathon.com/mock_draft
》nbadraft（排行榜，6/2 更新）
https://www.nbadraft.net/nba-mock-drafts/?year-mock=2021
》ESPN（文章，5/26 更新）
https://www.espn.com/nba/insider/story/_/id/31433978/2021-nba-mock-draft-end-teams-missed-playoffs
》bleacherreport（文章，6/1 更新）
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2943852-2021-nba-mock-draft-who-lands-no-1-pick-in-lottery-simulation
》CBS（文章，5/19 更新）
https://www.cbssports.com/nba/news/2021-nba-mock-draft-4-0-cade-cunningham-evan-mobley-jalen-suggs-go-1-2-3-as-lottery-picture-clears-up/
》nbadraftroom（排行榜，未標註更新時間）
https://nbadraftroom.com/p/2021-nba-mock-draft/
》nbcsports（文章，5/24 更新）
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/2021-nba-mock-draft-60-first-round-projections-after-play
》usatoday（文章，5/13 更新）
https://therookiewire.usatoday.com/lists/2021-nba-mock-draft-consensus-4-top-prospects-draft-order/
》hoopshype（文章，6/4 更新）
https://hoopshype.com/lists/nba-mock-draft-espn-bleacher-report-cade-cunningham/
》YAHOO（文章，5/24 更新）
https://sports.yahoo.com/nba-mock-draft-40-jalen-green-deserves-a-serious-look-at-no-1-spot-155622404.html

以上共 10 個參考來源，供大家分享，模擬選秀是這樣子的，網站專家們可以盡情模擬，信不信就在觀眾自己的心，覺得模擬的很扯也無妨（像是 YAHOO 獨排眾議，竟然覺得狀元要選 Jalen Green 跳過 Cade Cunningham，好歐～很敢推薦！），自己的功課自己做，我們就繼續挖更多影片、外電來討論就好了。

以下依『目前』的樂透選秀順位，整理各家推薦人選，可任意取用。

（1）火箭
tankathon：Cade Cunningham
nbadraft：Cade Cunningham
ESPN：Cade Cunningham
bleacherreport：Cade Cunningham
CBS：Cade Cunningham
nbadraftroom：Cade Cunningham
nbcsports：Cade Cunningham
usatoday：Cade Cunningham
hoopshype：Cade Cunningham
YAHOO：Jalen Green

（2）活塞
tankathon：Evan Mobley
nbadraft：Evan Mobley
ESPN：Evan Mobley
bleacherreport：Evan Mobley
CBS：Jalen Suggs
nbadraftroom：Evan Mobley
nbcsports：Jalen Suggs
usatoday：Evan Mobley
hoopshype：Evan Mobley
YAHOO：Cade Cunningham

（3）魔術
tankathon：Jalen Suggs
nbadraft：Jalen Green
ESPN：Jalen Green
bleacherreport：Jalen Green
CBS：Evan Mobley
nbadraftroom：Jalen Green
nbcsports：Evan Mobley
usatoday：Jalen Suggs
hoopshype：Jalen Green
YAHOO：Evan Mobley

（4）雷霆
tankathon：Jalen Green
nbadraft：Jalen Suggs
ESPN：Jalen Suggs
bleacherreport：Jalen Suggs
CBS：Jalen Green
nbadraftroom：Jalen Suggs
nbcsports：Jonathan Kuminga
usatoday：Jalen Green
hoopshype：Jalen Suggs
YAHOO：Jalen Suggs

（5）騎士
tankathon：Jonathan Kuminga
nbadraft：Jonathan Kuminga
ESPN：Jonathan Kuminga
bleacherreport：Jonathan Kuminga
CBS：Jonathan Kuminga
nbadraftroom：Scottie Barnes
nbcsports：Jalen Green
usatoday：Jonathan Kuminga
hoopshype：Jonathan Kuminga
YAHOO：Jonathan Kuminga

（6）勇士
tankathon：Scottie Barnes
nbadraft：Scottie Barnes
ESPN：Keon Johnson
bleacherreport：Keon Johnson
CBS：Scottie Barnes
nbadraftroom：Jonathan Kuminga
nbcsports：Scottie Barnes
usatoday：Scottie Barnes
hoopshype：Scottie Barnes
YAHOO：Scottie Barnes

（7）暴龍
tankathon：Jalen Johnson
nbadraft：James Bouknight
ESPN：Davion Mitchell
bleacherreport：Scottie Barnes
CBS：Davion Mitchell
nbadraftroom：Keon Johnson
nbcsports：Keon Johnson
usatoday：Keon Johnson
hoopshype：Keon Johnson
YAHOO：Davion Mitchell

（8）魔術
tankathon：Keon Johnson
nbadraft：Moses Moody
ESPN：Jalen Johnson
bleacherreport：Moses Moody
CBS：Moses Moody
nbadraftroom：Moses Moody
nbcsports：James Bouknight
usatoday：Moses Moody
hoopshype：Davion Mitchell
YAHOO：Keon Johnson

（9）國王
tankathon：Corey Kispert
nbadraft：Keon Johnson
ESPN：Scottie Barnes
bleacherreport：Davion Mitchell
CBS：Keon Johnson
nbadraftroom：Josh Giddey
nbcsports：Moses Moody
usatoday：Davion Mitchell
hoopshype：Moses Moody
YAHOO：Jalen Johnson

（10）鵜鶘
tankathon：Davion Mitchell
nbadraft：Davion Mitchell
ESPN：Franz Wagner
bleacherreport：Jalen Johnson
CBS：Tre Mann
nbadraftroom：Davion Mitchell
nbcsports：Corey Kispert
usatoday：Franz Wagner
hoopshype：Jalen Johnson
YAHOO：Moses Moody

（11）黃蜂
tankathon：Alperen Şengün
nbadraft：Jalen Johnson
ESPN：Corey Kispert
bleacherreport：Franz Wagner
CBS：Josh Giddey
nbadraftroom：Usman Garuba
nbcsports：Kai Jones
usatoday：Corey Kispert
hoopshype：Franz Wagner
YAHOO：Josh Giddey

（12）馬刺
tankathon：Moses Moody
nbadraft：Kai Jones
ESPN：Isaiah Jackson
bleacherreport：Alperen Şengün
CBS：Isaiah Jackson
nbadraftroom：Franz Wagner
nbcsports：Usman Garuba
usatoday：Jalen Johnson
hoopshype：Josh Giddey
YAHOO：Corey Kispert

（13）溜馬
tankathon：James Bouknight
nbadraft：Corey Kispert
ESPN：Josh Giddey
bleacherreport：James Bouknight
CBS：Franz Wagner
nbadraftroom：Jared Butler
nbcsports：Josh Giddey
usatoday：Josh Giddey
hoopshype：Kai Jones
YAHOO：James Bouknight

（14）勇士
tankathon：Franz Wagner
nbadraft：Ziaire Williams
ESPN：Alperen Şengün
bleacherreport：Josh Giddey
CBS：Alperen Şengün
nbadraftroom：Kai Jones
nbcsports：Ziaire Williams
usatoday：Usman Garuba
hoopshype：Corey Kispert
YAHOO：Alperen Şengün

再來就等樂透抽籤日（台灣時間 6/23）後，球隊順位正式確定，球員模擬排名應該會有較多的改變，到時再來大更新一次。

運動訓練上出現盲點了嗎？

我認為缺乏以筋膜為導向的訓練處方，就不是以健康促進為導向的訓練處方！

優質的好文，推！

頂級運動員都忽略的肌筋膜訓練-上篇

NBA冠軍賽結束了，恭喜多倫多暴龍隊奪下隊史第一座歐布萊恩冠軍盃，而尋求三連霸的勇士隊衛冕失利，其中Kevin Durant的阿基里斯腱斷裂與Klay Thompson的前十字韌帶撕裂傷必定是左右勝負的關鍵。為什麼連頂級的NBA球員在最完備的訓練下也會發生如此的意外？

這可能要歸咎於過去的運動訓練皆單一著重於肌力強度、心肺耐力適能與感覺動作神經的協調性這三種類型的訓練目標上而忽略了結締組織這一環，德國烏爾姆大學分子生物學博士Martina Zügel在2018年12月發表於英國運動醫學期刊的研究指出，大部分的與運動相關的組織過度負荷型運動傷害，在顯微觀察下得知幾乎都發生在白色的肌筋膜而非紅色的肌肉組織，因此建議在訓練中加上肌筋膜導向訓練（Fascia Oriented Training-FOT）來讓能量傳遞更有效率以及動作的察覺能力更敏感。

要了解何謂FOT就必須先了解肌肉與結締組織間能量轉移的模式，這個由美國布朗大學生物生態發展學教授Thomas Roberts所提出的三個機制，包含：如袋鼠彈跳般《節省能量》、如青蛙蹲跳般具《爆發力》與如體操落地般《避震緩衝》。

《A、如袋鼠彈跳般節省能量》

袋鼠的阿基里斯腱特別長，所以在連續彈跳時，能量傳遞是由身體轉換至肌腱再傳回身體，肌肉長度幾乎不變成等長收縮，此種模式最省能，人類在跑步、單腳跳與走路都是利用像阿基里斯腱與髂脛束這些強韌的筋膜組織才能展現天生耐力型的活動的優勢。

《B、如青蛙蹲跳般具爆發力》

青蛙在跳耀之前會先讓腿部肌肉向心收縮續積能量，再瞬間收縮並藉由肌腱傳遞能量到身體產生爆發力式的跳耀，這種模式主要產生爆發力，在雙腳蹲跳、跑斜坡或是不同方向的加速度時都運用的到。

《C、如體操落地般避震緩衝》

體操選手能夠完美落地，靠的就是將身體活動中產生的能量藉由肌腱傳遞最終由肌肉以離心收縮來完成能量的吸收與避震效果，在跑下坡、跳躍後的落地都會利用此機制。

而FOT的訓練原則必先觀察運動員是在哪條<肌筋膜線>在哪個<機制運用>上出了問題，再針對該肌筋膜線設計合適的運動，包括:

1.<伸展塑形運動>:改善肌筋膜的機械特性，讓能量傳遞路徑更順暢。

2.<彈振儲能運動>:利用彈振或擺動活動來提高儲存彈性位能的效率。

3.<活化察覺運動>:運用泡棉滾筒等工具來促進水分交換與組織再生，並在緩慢滾動中提高肌筋膜中本體覺的敏感度。

如此才能讓故障的肌筋膜藉由適當的評估與運動安排，讓肌筋膜更強韌、更有效率傳遞能量以完成更好的運動表現。下篇會再針對Kevin Duran與Klay Thompson的受傷機制與肌筋膜訓練建議再做說明。

#weifit #FasciaOrientedTraining #FOT
#台灣筋膜運動學高峰論壇

《參考資料》

Fascial tissue research in sports medicine: from molecules to tissue adaptation, injury and diagnostics: consensus statement
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30072398/

Flexible mechanisms: the diverse roles of biological springs in vertebrate movement
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/214/3/353.full.pdf

【所見略同】
高孔廉這話實在，對大陸而言，「兩個中國（德國、韓國模式）」總比「一中一台」好吧？
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至少兩個美國助理國務卿，在國[會]作證時講過「1992 Consensus」[（九二共識）]。
2004年4月21日，美國國務院亞太助理國務卿James Kelly（詹姆斯‧凱利）在眾議院說：「Both sides agreed in 1992 that there was one China, but left each side free to express their interpretation of the concept.」這非常非常清楚。……
2010年3月18日，美國國務院亞太副助理國務卿David Shear（施大偉）在國會一場聽證會上講說：「President Ma also proposed that talks with the PRC resume on the basis of the “1992 Consensus,” by which both sides agree that there is only one China but essentially agree to disagree on what the term “one China” means.」……
「一中各表」大概是我們要到面子的極限。我們要面子。當然我們希望能夠更往前走一點。我在書上提到，大陸方面要好好思考這問題，因為你一直封殺的結果，是變成民進黨永遠的提款機。......
我也常對大陸官方說，運動比賽的時候，現場觀眾拿中華民國國旗在加油，這是全球運動場上都這樣做，奧運、美國職棒、NBA跟政治一點關係也沒有，不必打壓台灣。運動員得到名次時，他當然希望看到國旗啊，這個是全世界共同的現象。你封殺這個，台灣民眾是不能接受。

Nick SHOCKED No consensus in Eagles building regarding Jalen Hurts!!

both of them used Larry Brown and Greg Popovich:

2003:
2003 FIBA Americas Olympic Qualifying Team Roster



NAME POS HGT WGT AGE AFFILIATION/SCHOOL
Ray Allen G 6-5 205 28 Seattle SuperSonics / Connecticut '96
Mike Bibby G 6-1 190 25 Sacramento Kings / Arizona '98
Elton Brand F 6-8 265 24 Los Angeles Clippers / Duke '99
Vince Carter G/F 6-6 225 26 Toronto Raptors / North Carolina '98
Nick Collison F/C 6-9 250 23 Seattle SuperSonics/Kansas '03
Tim Duncan C 6-11 248 27 San Antonio Spurs/ Wake Forest '97
Allen Iverson G 6-0 165 28 Philadelphia 76ers / Georgetown '96
Richard Jefferson F 6-7 222 23 New Jersey Nets / arizona '01
Jason Kidd G 6- 4 212 30 New Jersey Nets / California '94
Kenyon Martin F 6-9 234 25 New Jersey Nets / Cincinnati '00
Tracy McGrady G 6-8 210 24 Orlando magic / Mount zion Christian Academy '97
Jermaine O'Neal F/C 6-11 242 24 Indiana Pacers / Eau Claire H.S. '97


2004 USA Men's Olympic Games Roster



NAME POS HGT WGT AGE AFFILIATION (SCHOOL) HOMETOWN
Carmelo Anthony F 6-8 229 20 Denver Nuggets (Syracuse) Denver, CO
Carlos Boozer F 6-9 258 22 Utah Jazz (Duke) Bratenahl, OH
Tim Duncan C 7-0 248 28 San antonio Spurs (Wake Forest) San Antonio, TX
Allen Iverson G 6-0 165 29 Philadelphia 76ers (Georgetown) Villanova, PA
LeBron James G 6-8 240 19 Cleveland Cavaliers (St. Vincent-St. Mary High School) Cleveland, OH
Richard Jefferson F 6-7 222 24 New Jersey Nets (Arizona) West New York, NJ
Stephon Marbury G 6-2 205 27 New York Knicks (Georgia Tech) Purchase, NY
Shawn Marion F 6-7 215 26 Phoenix Suns (UNLV) Paradise Valley, AZ
Lamar Odom F 6-10 225 24 Los Angeles Lakers (Rhode Island) Miami, FL
Emeka Okafor F 6-10 252 21 Charlotte Bobcats (Connecticut) Houston, TX
Amare Stoudemire F 6-10 245 21 Phoenix Suns (Cypress Creek High School) Phoenix, AZ
Dwyane Wade G 6-4 212 22 Miami Heat (Marquette) Miami, FL



okay TD and Iverson are both on it and you know what they give you. quality minutes and numbers.

the 2003 roster had very good shooters in Ray Allen, Vince Carter, and Mike Bibby. they USA roster also had tremendous ability to break down the zone defense by dribble penetration by Vince Carter, Tmac, and to a lesser extent RJ and Martin.

you also had the unwavering floor general who at the time back in 03 was the consensus #1 PG in the NBA Jason Kidd.

At the time, ELton Brand and Nick Collison were not all stars, but Elton Brand was already playing at a high level and Collison gives you hustle, boards, and blocks.


now look at the 2004 roster:

Stephon Marbury?
Emeka Okafor? unproven college big man wiht a bad back?
Carlos Boozer?
the current tri captains were very talented in their first year and LB may not have used them enough, but you have to understand that these three players have since grown incredibly in the two years since the 04 debacle.

Marion and Stoudemire are the solid wing players on the Suns tema.. which at the time had not began playing with steve nash yet.. but they are so dynamic that they had trouble adjusting to LB's system.

and no shooters? tsk tsk


disregard what the media and ESPN said, the 04 Olympics WAS a B-list roster.

For those who were there at McDonough Gymnasium on August 4, 1994, few will forget the arrival of a 6-0 freshman guard who needed no introduction. The rumors of Allen Iverson's arrival to the Kenner Summer League were true, and by game's end, Iverson had scored 40 points. By the Sunday afternoon final, before an overflow crowd inside the gym and a crowd of those outside who could not get in, Iverson finished a combined 99 point effort in three days against some of the best collegiate talent in the city. This, of course, from a player that had not played organized basketball in over a year.

The Allen Iverson years had begun.

A brief profile can't do justice to tell the story of one of the greatest pure athletes ever to attend Georgetown, a man without peer in his talent over two years at the collegiate level. Just a year before his Kenner debut, few would have imagined Allen Iverson ever playing college basketball.

Iverson was not only a 31 point a game guard for Bethel HS, but a football player of tremendous skill. As a quarterback and defensive back his sophomore season, he produced nearly 1,600 yards offense and 13 INT's. By his junior year, he accounted for 2,204 yards, 21 touchdowns by rush or interception, and 14 touchdown passes. In a region which has produced NFL quarterbacks such as Michael Vick and Aaron Brooks, there are those who will still say "Bubbachuck" Iverson was better than both of them. Schools such as Arkansas, Kentucky, Duke, and three dozen other top programs across two sports were vying for perhaps the greatest two-sport star the Tidewater had ever produced.

When he led Bethel to the state title, someone asked what it was like to win the title. "I'm going to get one in basketball now," which he did. In late February, 1993, en route to the state title he had promised, Iverson was one of a large group of Bethel teammates at a Hampton bowling alley when a fight broke out between students from rival schools trading racial insults. Three people were hurt in the aftermath. Despite conflicting testimony from eyewitnesses and no clear evidence linking him to the crime, Iverson was one of four black students arrested.

Racial tensions were heightened when the prosecutors passed on a misdemeanor assault charge and charged Iverson with three counts of felony "maiming by mob", which carried a 20 year prison sentence. Despite video evidence which did not place Iverson in the crowd at the time of the fight, he was convicted in a racially charged case.

The 20 year sentence was later reduced to five, and Iverson was granted clemency by Gov. Douglas Wilder three months later, sending Iverson to a detention program at an alternative high school. (The original charges were thrown out by the Virginia court of appeals in 1995.)

In the spring of 1994, with Iverson still in detention, his mother approached John Thompson with a plea to help her son get to college and start a new chapter of his life. Though Thompson had passed on a number of troubled players in the past, he offered Iverson a scholarship in April of that season, contingent upon his completion of high school and his legal release, which was granted 48 hours before his Kenner debut.

By his debut in a Georgetown uniform in November 1994, Iverson had been the subject of intense national media attention. In the Hoyas' annual exhibition with Fort Hood, Iverson scored 36 points, five assists, and three steals in 23 minutes. Local columnists were in awe.

"Hang his number up in the rafters," wrote Tom Knott of the Washington Times. "He's better than most of the point guards in the NBA right now."

"I saw Lew Alcindor, Austin Carr, Moses Malone, Alonzo Mourning, Albert King, Ralph Sampson and Patrick Ewing play in high school," said the Post's Thomas Boswell. "Now, I have two memories on my first impression top shelf. The man who became Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Allen Iverson."

Iverson opened the 1994-95 season in Memphis, TN in a 97-79 loss to defending NCAA champion Arkansas, scoring 19 points. Six days later, he scored 31 in a nationally televised game with DePaul, followed by 30 four days later against Providence, leading the team in scoring 22 times that season. His only game under double figures for the season (and his career) was a game where he played only ten minutes in a loss at Villanova, a game Georgetown coach John Thompson threatened to forfeit when a group of Villanova students paraded through the Spectrum in black and white-striped prison garb, with a sign comparing Iverson to O.J. Simpson.

"You accept certain ribbing, but there is a line," Thompson said after the game. "I can condone any Christian university sitting and watching that happen...If that happens [again], I going to walk. It that simple." Such fan behavior was not seen thereafter.

Later in the season, with President Bill Clinton in attendance, Iverson scored 26 as the Hoyas routed Villanova, 77-52. He followed it up with 21 to beat Syracuse, 28 versus St. John's, 31 in a Big East tournament opener with Miami (a game that saw Iverson outscore the entire Hurricane team at the end of the first half), and 27 versus Connecticut in the semis. In the NCAA regional, he scored 24 in the loss, but held Jeff McInnis to 1 for 8 shooting. By season's end, Allen Iverson had been named Big East Player of the Week nine times, Rookie of the Year, a second team all-conference selection, and honorable mention All-America recipient. Having led the Hoyas in points and steals en route to the school's first NCAA regional appearance since 1989, Iverson was already a star. By 1996, he would become nothing less than a sensation.

The leaser of a talented team that featured four future NBA stars, Allen Iverson dominated the 1995-96 season as no Hoya has done before or since. Adept at the crossover dribble that became his NBA trademark, lightning quick to the basket, and able to score on opponents at will, Iverson was largely unstoppable. Even more impressive was an effort to improve his shooting touch, for despite averaging 20.4 points as a freshman in 1994-95 (2nd all time for a Georgetown rookie), Iverson only shot 39 percent from the field, 23 percent from three, and 19 percent from three in Big East play. For his sophomore season, his field shooting increased to 48 percent, his three point mark to 36 percent. The results were striking.

In the pre-season NIT versus Temple, Iverson shot 50 percent for 24 points and a career high 10 rebounds. After a 23 point effort against Georgia Tech, he scored a career high 40 against Arizona, one of two 40+ point games that season. In Big East play, Iverson could ring up points with ease, such as the game where he scored 21 points in only 20 minutes against Rutgers.

In the final three months of the season, Iverson led the team in 21 of the team's 25 games: 40 against Seton Hall, 39 against St. John's, 34 against Providence. He scored 30 in a wild win over Memphis, and followed it up two nights later with 26 in an upset of #3 Connecticut. For the game, Iverson totalled 26 points, 8 steals, and 6 assists, including a soaring dunk past Ray Allen and the Huskies. It was the highest ranked team any Georgetown team had defeated since 1988. His best performance of the season might have been a 37 point, 8 rebound, and three steal effort against #6 ranked Villanova, playing only 27 minutes. The 106-68 win represents the sixth largest margin of victory and the largest margin ever by a Georgetown team against a top 10 opponent.

Iverson was capable of an off game; unfortunately, two came at particularly inopportune times for the Hoyas' hopes for a national title. Entering the 1996 Big East Final with a #1 seed on the line, Iverson shot 4 for 15 and the Hoyas lost by one, 76-75. As a result of the loss, Georgetown was seeded #2 behind top ranked UMass, and in the regional final between the two teams Iverson struggled with a 6 for 21 effort in the loss. For the season, though, his statistics were astonishing: his 926 points broke the then-record by 124 points. He set new single season marks in field goals, field goal attempts, three pointers, three point attempts, steals, minutes, and scoring average (25.0), the latter of which ranked 7th in the nation that season. The Big East's defensive player of the year, he was named a consensus All-American amidst numerous other awards.

If he could somehow have stayed four years, Iverson undoubtedly would have shredded the Georgetown record books. But whatever hopes existed for Iverson to resist the lure of the NBA were short lived, particularly with the news that one of his sisters had fallen ill. Seeing the opportunity to take care of his family's medical needs, Iverson announced for the NBA draft soon after the end of his sophomore season, becoming the first Georgetown player in the Thompson era to do so. The compact that had bound so many great Hoya players to a four year commitment--from Ewing to Williams, Mourning to Mutombo--had now been broken.

The first pick in the 1996 NBA draft, Iverson signed a $3.9 million contract with the Philadelphia 76ers and a ten year, $50 million deal with Reebok. His effort on the court is well known and respected, but for all the media portrayals of Iverson as the anti-hero, an icon of a "Hip Hop Nation" that ran counter to the NBA's carefully constructed marketing image, or as a symbol of all that is allegedly wrong in professional basketball, he remains remarkably well-grounded.

Married for six years and the father of two, Iverson is fiercely loyal to his teammates and to his childhood friends. He considered it an honor to play for the U.S. Olympic team in 2004 when other NBA stars passed on the offer, and maintains a number of charity events to benefit his local community. In comparison to his NBA career, his years at Georgetown were largely free of the intense media and personal scrutiny, providing at least two years where he could grow as a person as well as a basketball player.

His arrival and exit at Georgetown is still a source of debate in some circles, but his performance on the court is not. Allen Iverson found a home, even briefly, at the Hilltop, and remains one of its brightest stars. "In my heart, I know I'm a basketball player," Iverson said following his 2006 NBA trade, "being that I know I can play with the best of them."

From that first Kenner League game on 1994, no one has doubted it since.