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This still cracks me up til this day.
Iverson is still one my favorite players of all.
Iverson is still one my favorite players of all.
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Originally Posted by Cronicmolemolereturns
My favorite player ever.. but that last line in the video sums up where he is now " How the hell can I make my team better by practicing"
Originally Posted by FullMetal
This joint slaps�
Originally Posted by FullMetal
This joint slaps�
Yo, I thought 40 Bars was pretty dope, especially compared to the other athletes who tried to rapOriginally Posted by DMan14
remember the outrage when he was about to drop 40 bars lol
Originally Posted by Peep Game
Yo, I thought 40 Bars was pretty dope, especially compared to the other athletes who tried to rapOriginally Posted by DMan14
remember the outrage when he was about to drop 40 bars lol
Yes, he had no supporting cast. It was just a one man team.Originally Posted by Cronicmolemolereturns
My favorite player ever.. but that last line in the video sums up where he is now " How the hell can I make my team better by practicing"
Originally Posted by KingZarus
Bet he wishes he was practicing on an NBA team now..
For realOriginally Posted by Ruxxx
Originally Posted by Mr Jordan04
I remember this +@%@ like it was yesterday.
Originally Posted by airmaxpenny1
I love AI but the more I watch videos like these that I though were great when I was younger, the more I see how misguided dude was...
Dude really asked how can he make his teammates better though practice?
WOW, thanks for posting that man. I have to say it's shame that the one soundbite about practice is all anybody will remember this for. He said a lot of revealing/insightful things there and they got completely brushed aside so everybody could make him look like a %%+!$*% that only bemoaned having to talk about practicing.Originally Posted by you big dummy
For those that didn't know, that 2 minute soundbite was a small part of a 40 minute press conference, that I've been searching for years now.
Here's the transcript of the entire press conference
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If anything, the full transcript makes him look worse than the soundbite.Originally Posted by 5am6oody72
WOW, thanks for posting that man. I have to say it's shame that the one soundbite about practice is all anybody will remember this for. He said a lot of revealing/insightful things there and they got completely brushed aside so everybody could make him look like a %%+!$*% that only bemoaned having to talk about practicing.Originally Posted by you big dummy
For those that didn't know, that 2 minute soundbite was a small part of a 40 minute press conference, that I've been searching for years now.
Here's the transcript of the entire press conference
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I sympathize with what he's saying; even though it's the media's job to ask him questions about his performance and what went wrong etc, at the end of the day he's still a human being with a job and a family just like anyone else. We all have days at work that don't end up going well and none of us have to answer to a media swarm about why we didn't land a certain project or why do we think our coworker said what he did about your working relationship etc Kids at school aren't asking our sons and daughters why we bombed our presentation and if we're gonna get fired. Especially after losing somebody close to him he probably was not in the mood to be dealing with people tearing him down at that time and just wanted to relax and spend time with friends and family.
Unfortunately instead of empathizing with his issues or attempting to understand his side of things, the media never really attempted to project the same issues they faced in their lives onto his. He was just a young black athlete that looked different than them and dressed like a thug and made millions of dollars, and never apologized for who he was or how he played. I think he understood that the criticism and questions came with the territory, but he felt (and rightly so) that a lot of it was unwarranted given that he had taken a roster full of scrubs to the Finals the previous year and played his heart out every second he was on the floor. He was trying to make them understand that a multimillion dollar contract doesn't equip him and his family with an emotional shield that makes them impervious to excessive negativity, or make the loss of a close friend hurt any less. Of course nobody paid any mind to that, and instead clipped out all his mentions of practice into a 30 second clip that further perpetuates the selfish caricature they had made him out to be.
I don't think anyone would identify me as an AI "fan," though I appreciate him as a player. And he's ultimately responsible for the unfortunate spot he's in now, but it's just kinda sad IMO to see how the media can shape how we view an athlete/celebrity so easily. I'd never read any of that transcript before and I'd bet 99.5% of sports fans who know about the "Practice" press conference haven't either.