How Allen Iverson Turned Me Off the NBA

Let me paint a picture for you, high school Junior, who for arguments sake we will call Allen. Small, quick, mediocre at best as far as the boys basketball team goes. Shows up to practice every single day and puts his heart and soul into the workout, but doesn't get playing time. Allots not only his body but his time, to a team he doesn't even get to play for, despite having academic commitments to honor as well.  Now let me paint another, less appealing, picture for you. A man whose sole commitment in life is to basketball, who is paid millions of dollars to play a game, cutting practice. There is something inescapably wrong with that picture. That hideous picture I just painted for you is the sole reason why I will no longer watch the NBA. Overpaid, over-glorified, over-pampered punks who cant even attend practice when they are paid to do so. Pardon my french but that is bullshit. Allen Iverson gets paid 22 million dollars a year. That's ... (link)