sports.yahoo.com - 8/19/2008
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Via Sixersoul , Phil Jasner at the Philadelphia Daily News reports that new $80 million dollar man Andre Iguodola would like you to stop calling him 'Iggy,' thanks. "In 4 years, he has been called 'A.I.2,' 'Iggy' and 'The Other A.I.' "I don't like 'Iggy,' I don't mind 'The Other A.I.,'" he said. "It just shows the fans are watching basketball and know what I do. I want to ...
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Mickael Pietrus Has His Work Cut Out For Him
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Can Players Choose Their Own Nickname?
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Filed under: 76ers, Trail Blazers, NBA FansAndre Iguodala feels like a new man with his new contract and new teammates who should take the Sixers to new heights. As such, he wants a new nickname. From the Philadelphia Daily News (via Skeets via Sixersoul): "I don't like 'Iggy,' I don't mind 'The Other A.I.,' " he said. "It just shows the fans are watching basketball and know what I do. I want to be 'Dre, that's it. "The A.I. thing, it's about Allen, always being in his shadow. He's a different ...
Long Live Iggy (And Brandon Jennings is a Monster)
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Before last season, Andre Iguodala proclaimed he'd prefer not to be called Iggy. Coincidentally, last season I began to grow a bit tired of Andre and start to resent him a bit — though really through little fault of his own. I wasn't please the Sixers paid about $12 million more than anyone else would have given him, and I really hated watching him get paid like the man, be put in position to take over like the man, yet fail to be able to create a shot for himself to save his life. Sure, he made a huge clutch shots, but he just didn't look like an $80 million ...
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