Wade on choosing AI to present him into the Hall of Fame: “Allen Iverson is somebody who gets forgotten for what he means to this game and what he means to a community and to a culture. And so, I want to bring that back to the front in the forefront and give him his flowers like he deserved.”
by sewsgup
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>give him his flowers like he deserved
This makes it sound like this is compensating for a prior snubbing. Is there somebody who went into the hall who should’ve had AI speak but didn’t? Or just a generally forgotten great?
AI was so fun to watch in his prime
Question: why does anyone feel bad for AI after he went broke? I always see people say they feel bad for him and how he “deserves better” even though he’s the one that went out and blew all his money on cars and strip clubs. If anyone else did that it would be rightfully considered irresponsible and stupid, but for some reason with AI it was some travesty?
AI forgotten? You gotta be running in some really sad circles to forget about AI if you’re a basketball fan.
Only people forgetting him are those he watches. Could never in my right mind forget buddy
AI needs to show up to the HOF with the durag and Reebok ntrack suit for the culture. fuck em dress codes
I love AI. Impacted a lot of how the NBA evolved from the early 2000s to now. A lot of newer fans look at his efficiency and throw him in the overrated group, but don’t understand the load he was asked to take on during that finals run.
It’s fitting because Iverson probably has the best [hall of fame speech](https://youtu.be/N3TuLGzgnVA) that I’ve seen.
It’s funny because it comes from someone who was pretty much only negatively associated with public speaking & humility during his career. Him thanking his Georgetown coach big John Thompson for saving his life is easily one of the most powerful moments in a hall of fame speech. Idk how it gets any more real than that.
He also mentions that he was supposed to be a football player but somehow wound up in the basketball hall of fame lol Dude was just born to be a professional athlete.
AI gets overhyped for losing to Kobe and Shaq, and gets gassed all the time for his influence on culture and the nature of shifty guards. Every basketball Mt. Rushmore based on influence always has AI
Just because **some** people didn’t think he CARRIED the Sixers and should be applauded for carrying the team to 1 win vs. the Lakers, doesn’t mean he’s disrespected or forgotten.
Thanks for reminding me about AI!
AI should be the face of AI. Don’t @ me
AI gets a lot of love from the general NBA fan base. Paul Pierce on the other hand….
AI was my favourite player growing up. I feel like Morant probably modelled his play style after him and took his dunking to the next level.
Does he? I feel like AI still gets a ton of respect even from younger fans who didn’t get to watch him when he was still active and in his prime because his highlight reel is fun as hell to watch.
Wade’s game was a lot like AI when he was young. Both were slashers with a crazy fast first step and put would risk their bodies for 2 in the middle of December when the game didn’t really matter
It took me longer than I’d like to admit to realize he didn’t mean like a deepfake in a movie lol
I read this as Wade choosing Artificial Intelligence to present for him. I am like damn, lol, maybe he is an investor in whatever AI tech that is presenting for him lmao
I’m forever grateful I got see A.I. play in his prime in a playoff game vs Vince Carter in his prime with the Raptors. I almost wore my Iverson jersey to the game, but it was a Raptors home game so would have courted heckles.
If you were around for 2000 and 2001 then you understand. He was a reflection of being black when mainstream America didn’t accept black people for being black. And AI just blew those doors down. It was him personally that brought wearing headbands, shooting sleeves, cornrows, and durags from the streets to the court to the suburbs. Not Jordan. Not Kobe. Not Shaq. Nobody was as unapologetically black and we will forever love him for it.
Wade rocked 3 because of AI. Has always been a personal hero.
AI only gets forgotten by the new generation of advanced stat obsessed fans. They tend to overlook that his job was to be the entire offence on those Sixer teams. He would get CLOBBERED by everyone on the opposing team. On top of all that, the guy would check out of a game for a couple minutes to have a sip of water then come right back in.
Toughest player to ever play the game.
I read a thread on here the other day , where people said brandon roy was better than AI all time lol . Same goes for tmac who had a fg% 43.5 vs Ais 42.5 yet all i hear about is Ai being a chucker when in reality a bad shot from Ai was still a better shot than any of his teammates could get . The sixers also dont get enough credit for butchering the team after 2002 . That webber deal ruined any chance for that team to do anythiny.
I remember him dragging the corpse of webber to the playoffs in 2005
Averaging 31 2 and 10 with 2 steals on 46 40 90 splits just lose in a gentlemans sweep to the pistons .
Philly webber was the worst
AI is one of the most popular players ever… I don’t understand the forgotten angle
I though artificial intelligence was taking another huge step…..never mind carrying on with my life 😂
I had to Google if Allen Iverson was alive because I didn’t know why else Wade would want Artificial Intelligence to present him into the Hall of Fame. I thought they were gonna Tupac hologram him.
I’m an idiot.
Allen Iverson was easily my favorite player to watch growing up. I will never forget when my dad got 4th row tickets to a Twolves home game vs the sixers back in the 2001 season because a bunch of people at his work backed out and he was like the 4th option to get the company tickets. AI was amazing to watch in person and I will never get tickets that close ever again probably. That was definitely one of my favorite childhood memories.
If Iverson got a fair whistle, he’d average 40ppg for his career.
I read this as artificial intelligence and was about to report wade to SAG.
I do feel in a different way people are going to forget Wade and I’m going to have fight nephews in 10 years.
He is still the person in his prime I want of this generation. The battles he had with the Pistons as a young player can’t be said enough they couldn’t stop that boy.
Lol why did I read this as he is using Artificial Intelligence to present him at the HOF. Then I thought he was going to get an AI of AI to present him, my mind was wondering… why not just get the real AI?
I read this as artificial intelligence. How hilarious would having one of the GPT models introduce him be?
AI made me a fan of basketball, my favorite player ever until we drafted Wade. How fitting my OG 🐐 and the guy who got me into the sport is presenting to my all time favorite player. AI was the fucking best, I’d get into so many heated debates about who was better between him and Kobe (I know the answer). He was just fucking cool, the practice speech, wearing the sleeves because of his tats. He was awesome, plagiarized my first book report on him in the 7th grade!
I legit thought that ChatGPT is going to intrude him for a moment.
AI will always be a great one for literally telling a crazy insane 2001 Laker team to fuck off and take game 1 from them.
Another job taken away by AIlen Iverson
AI is the reason why I suffer watching this team 20 years later
literally nobody forgets AI