Fast Break: Allen Iverson to Detroit; Chauncey Billups to Denver
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Will the Pistons, a Top Tier Franchise, finally return Iverson to his original (high school, college, rookie of the year) position, and prove all the Iverson at PG haters wrong? The hordes of them?
God I hope so. And how sweet the victory will be for the Pistons, for Iverson, and for yours truly.
Assuming Iverson to Pistons, I'm postponing indefinitely my plans to cover the Raptors along with the Nuggets. This is so I have plenty of time to cover the whys and the aftermaths, for both Detroit and Denver, of this historic trade, if it is true.
First reaction to the Nuggets maneuverings: I credit them for a massive attempt to climb out of a very deep hole that Karl and an over reliance on expensive veterans got them in. But I discredit them for having failed to make any truly effective use of Iverson while he was on the team. What was the point of paying mega bucks to Iverson, but then allowing their Karl worship to blind them to Karl's failure to change even one slight thing in Iverson's games compared with Philadelphia? And then only to announce less than 2 years later that it was all a stupid mistake.
Why do the second tier franchises have to play the fool all the time?
Much, much more later, peace.
