-G
P.S. Allen is about to ink a contract with Memphis, btw. That's where he'll end his career: in frickin' Memphis.
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Uh, no. (but yeah, that is funny to remember)
He's going to light it up in Memphis, remind teams that he is one of the greatest pure scorers of all time, get traded to a contender for a pick and prospect and make Chris Wallace look like the genius he is for picking AI up off the scrap heap when it was totally predicable to see this coming.
This really was a smart move by "the guy who gave LA a title". Memphis is a cellar-dweller so he's not messing up any chemistry over there. If anything, he might give this team some fight. Put a little dawg in they bite. By mid season analysts will use phrases like "turnaround", "unexpected" and "veteran" leadership" when they talk about Chuck. AI's got something to prove, a humungous chip on his shoulder, the "nobody believed in me" factor as Simmons would say. Starting in Detroit, this is the scene after the lead breaks up with his girlfriend where his life goes in the toilet. But you know what's always around the corner?! The make up scene, i.e. redemption. My guess is that by the deadline, he's on a contender as a super-sub. He's Vinnie "the Microwave" Johnson the Remix waiting to happen.
Short of a serious injury, I say there's little chance of him fizzling out in a Grizzlies uni Joe Montana - KC Chiefs style. He's been too much of a phenom his entire career. He's deeply flawed, but he's also not mortal. Remember, he's our height and weight almost exactly. He's played for 13 or so seasons in the National Basketball Association, and averaged 30+ points for most of them. Just the threat of him going off in a game or series is worth having him on your bench if you're San Antonio or Boston or Cleveland or whoever's going to be playing in May. He had too much power over Melo (and Karl was asleep at the wheel), but any of the aforementioned squads could get him to ten-hut for a ring.
I wholeheartedly feel everything you’re saying...except for the AI-as-tenth-man-on-a-championship-team part. And only because of the timing involved and his contract.
Iverson is going to have a vengeance year in Memphis and make Wallace look like a genius, yes. (My chips are pushed right up next to yours on that bet.) But if all that should happen, why would Memphis trade him to a contender in February? For what? His price tag is too low. Which means AI would have to hit the open market NEXT summer and have Leon pitch his services then.
He may not be mortal, but he’s still human — and he’s already got big miles on him. So which big-name contender gives him a shot?
Timmy D and Manu are a combined 103 years old, so consider San Antonio done after this year. Until KG shows that he really has knees, Boston still has a huge question mark on its back. With Ariza gone, crazy old Artest in the mix, Pau overworked, and Odom married to that crazy ho AND having just signed a big fat contract, I can’t imagine the Lakers being anywhere near what they were last year. And after a year of geriatric Shaquille in Cleveland, you think their gonna be looking to pull up another wheelchair to their bench?
So who’s going to be considered a contender going into Summer 2010? Whoever picks up LeBron, of course. But who else? Orlando? Portland? Chicago?
I don’t know, man. Honestly, barring your aforementioned catastrophic injury, I can’t even guess how AI’s career ends.
-G
P.S. Christ, though, can you imagine a good Lakers team getting its hands on him? I might kill myself. Seriously, that might be enough to get me there. I’m not that happy a person as it is.
He would do it too. You know it. I know it. He knows it. Let's say in early January the Lakers are flailing and Kobe feels like they need to shake things up cus the team's not hungry like it needs to be, and he thinks they should move a player or two, and get one more scorer of the bench, and told Kupchack "get me AI", do you think that's not going to happen? In a New York minute, son.
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