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Former NBA star Baron Davis gives love to Sixers legend Allen Iverson

Former NBA star Baron Davis gives love to Sixers legend Allen Iverson

USA Today17-07-2025
Philadelphia 76ers legend Allen Iverson has had a hand in a lot of fantastic moments in the history of the game. His cultural influence is something that doesn't need any explanation. His crossover is a move that kids try to emulate at the playground. His playstyle is something everybody, even grown men, try to copy.
Therefore, it makes no surprise that he was a positive influence on plenty of basketball players such as Baron Davis, for example.
A 2-time All-Star and a member of the All-NBA Third Team in 2004, Davis hopped on "Podcast P with Paul George" and gave a lot of love to Iverson:
You grow up idolizing somebody and they got a direct effect on you because you like, oh (expletive), he more like me than I ever expected. The way AI came into the league, I thought he represented where I was from. He gave me a chance to be like, oh it's cool to be everything you are right or to figure it out, and at UCLA, we was a Reebok school and I was like, I'm wearing Nikes, you know what I mean? So I used to have to put tape on my shoes and I remember we used to hear it was a club, so we used to always hang out parking lot in college at the club in Westwood.
We stayed outside the club and waited for this man. We missed him going in. We waited for him to come outside bro. He came outside, he was like, 'Oh, what's up?' We was like, man, I was like, man, we trying to wear your shoes. He said, 'What? You ain't got my shoes?' He was like, bro, 'You ain't got my shoes.' I was like man, this dude know who I am. He was like, hell yeah man. He sent the whole, we was in Iversons–we was the Reebok school. So for me, Iverson always was like big bro.
Davis would go on to have a helluva career--although injuries certainly played a part and held him back a bit. It's obvious that Iverson had an influence on him as he navigated his way through the league.
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