The Wrong Answer

I guess this doesn’t really qualify as news, but here goes – Allen Iverson still doesn’t get it. He has no concept of personal responsibility or how to behave on a team. It’s funny, I read several articles about how this Olympic team would be better than the World Championship team that got embarrassed last summer, largely because of the presence of AI. He was the solidifying force. The tough guy who would make everyone else take it seriously.
Guess not. Iverson, along with LeBron James and Amare Stoudemire, was late to a pregame meeting and suspended by coach Larry Brown. The rule is easy to understand and deployed by coaches everywhere – you show up late or miss a team function, and you sit. No excuses. If meetings and practices aren’t important for you, then you don’t get playing time.
Well, I guess the complex is too complex for Iverson.
It’s not so much that he was late, although that’s stupid enough. No, it’s how he handled being suspended for one game (a fairly meaningless game, no less).

“I was surprised with the whole thing,” Iverson said. “It hurt. It left a bad taste in my mouth – just the fact I’m a co-captain and being suspended for a game, that’s a bad situation for someone who is supposed to be a leader of this team.”

And this one:

I couldn’t have been more than five minutes late.

So, the fact that the coach suspended him (for violating team rules) left a bad taste in his mouth, because he is “supposed to be a leader of this team.” Is that what leaders are? People who go unpunished for their actions? Man, all these years, I thought leaders were there to lead, to set an example.
You know, I love to watch Iverson play, but man, he is an incredible ass.
BTW, here is LeBron James’ quote about his suspension:

“I think I let the team down by being late,” James said. “I’ll make up for it. It’s not the end of the world.”

Maybe the wrong guy is the captain.


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