freep.com - 11/27/2008
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Editor's note: This story was updated on Thursday, 9:15 p.m. Pistons coach Michael Curry held practice on Thanksgiving because his newest player, Allen Iverson, wasn't part of the team during training camp and has had less than a month to get familiar with the system and develop chemistry with ...
sftsports.com - 11/28/2008
mlive.com - 11/28/2008
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mlive.com —
AUBURN HILLS -- Allen Iverson, a no-show at
the Detroit Pistons' Thanksgiving day practice, was apologetic upon...
his return on Friday. "I don't have no excuses," Iverson said. "I apologized to my teammates, first and foremost, coaching staff, the ...
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Apologetic Iverson returns to Pistons practice ...
thebiglead.com - 11/28/2008
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thebiglead.com —
Saw this headline on TV last night and
our stomach ache (overeating, of course) turned into a...
headache. Like Iverson. Always have. He’s a Virginia guy, and famously during his high school years, he drilled a pregnant woman with a folding chair, WWE-style, during a high school brawl in a ...
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Iverson + New Team + Missed Practice + Suspended = ...
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‘Practice’ an Iverson issue again
SmackCaster SmackBlog —
... Allen Iverson has had a history with the word practice. So, it shouldn’t be a surprise that the point guard supreme decided he didn’t want to attend the Pistons’ session on Thanksgiving. Coach Michael Curry says AI is facing a "hefty fine" and hasn’t decided whether Iverson will play on Friday against Milwauke. ...
Iverson + New Team + Missed Practice + Suspended = Public Relations Disaster
The Big Lead —
Saw this headline on TV last night and our stomach ache (overeating, of course) turned into a headache.
Like Iverson. Always have. He’s a Virginia guy, and famously during his high school years, he drilled a pregnant woman with a folding chair, WWE-style, during a high school brawl in a bowling alley. The Governor pardoned him, and AI went to Georgetown. (Aside: We long for the day in which somebody presses John Thompson on how Allen Iverson got into Georgetown.) We thought he would certainly lift the Hoyas back to the ...
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Bleacher Report - NBA 11/27/2008
Evidently, just being in the Motor City doesn't make Allen Iverson's engine go anymore than usual. The star point guard, who was recently traded to Detroit for Chauncey Billups in a blockbuster deal, reportedly went back to his old ways, ...
