Why Does Every Team Allen Iverson Touches Turn to Dust?

There are only a small number of players who enter the professional ranks of sports and completely change the face of their league. The kind of players who transcend their counterparts and continually embody success and execution time after time. Players such as Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, and Jerry Rice were always two steps ahead of everyone chasing them. Allen Iverson is an enigma of a guard in the NBA. Never respected much as his talent would suggest, Iverson has been a bona fide star from the minute he stepped onto a basketball court. Since the days he donned green and gold at Bethel High School, Iverson has dropped the jaws of everyone who watched his killer instinct and ankle-planting speed dismantle opponents. At only a generous height of 6 feet, Iverson entered the mouths and teeth of defenses with no regard, developing a smooth game that included many moves at the basket that were virtually unstoppable. His "killer cross-over" became a staple in basketball culture ... (link)