Allen Iverson

Fun Fact: In high school, Allen Iverson’s first love was football. Iverson, nicknamed by his friends Bubbachuck, led the Bethel High School football team to the state Class AAA title in 1992. 

Claim to Fame: In 1999 Iverson was selected first overall by the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA Draft. He went on to be named the 1996 Rookie of the Year and established himself as one of the quickest point guards in the NBA. Iverson ranks third all-time in points per game. He has averaged 27.7 points per game in his career, trailing all-time leader Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain in this category by only 2.4 points per game. He currently plays for the Denver Nuggets.

Allen Ezail Iverson is an American professional basketball player who is currently a free agent.

Iverson was selected with the number one pick in the 1996 NBA Draft by the Philadelphia 76ers. He was named the NBA Rookie of the Year in 1996?97 season. Iverson is a ten-time NBA All-Star which includes winning the All-Star MVP award in 2001 and 2005.

Winning the NBA scoring title during the 1998?99, 2000?01, 2001?02 and 2004?05 seasons, Iverson has become one of the most prolific scorers in NBA history, despite his small stature, with a career scoring average of 27.1 points per game, being fifth all-time. Iverson was also the NBA Most Valuable Player of the 2000?01 season and led his team to the NBA Finals that post-season.


As a high school junior, Iverson played quarterback for the Bethel High School football team, leading the team to the state championship.

On February 14, 1993, Iverson and several of his friends became involved in an altercation with a group of white teenagers at the Circle Lanes bowling alley in Hampton, Virginia. Iverson's crowd was raucous and had to be asked to quiet down several times, and eventually a shouting duel began with another group of youths. Shortly thereafter, a huge fight erupted, pitting the white crowd against the blacks. During the fight, Iverson allegedly struck a woman in the head with a chair. He, along with three of his friends who are also African-American, were the only people arrested. Iverson, who was 17 at the time, was convicted as an adult of the felony charge of maiming by mob, a rarely used Virginia statute that was designed to combat lynching. Iverson and his supporters maintained his innocence, claiming that he left the alley as soon as the trouble began. Iverson said, "For me to be in a bowling alley where everybody in the whole place know who I am and be crackin' people upside the head with chairs and think nothin' gonna happen? That's crazy! And what kind of a man would I be to hit a girl in the head with a damn chair? I rather have 'em say I hit a man with a chair, not no damn woman."

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