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Allen Iverson is an American basketball player and rapper born in Hampton, Virginia, on June 7, 1975. He played point guard and shooting guard in the National Basketball Association for teams including the Philadelphia 76ers, Denver Nuggets, Detroit Pistons, and Beşiktaş men's basketball team. He was drafted by the Philadelphia 76ers and played from 1996 until 2012. Iverson also represented the United States in the 2004 Summer Olympics, the 2003 Tournament of the Americas, and the 1995 Summer Universiade.
He received the NBA Rookie of the Year Award, the NBA Most Valuable Player Award, the NBA All-Star Game Kobe Bryant Most Valuable Player Award, and selection to the All-NBA Team. Educated at Georgetown University, he resides in Philadelphia, Atlanta, and Hampton. Iverson is also known by the pseudonym Allen Ezail Iverson and the nicknames AI and The Answer. As a rapper, he uses his voice and is associated with hip hop and rap genres.
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Film & TV
Hampton, Virginia, USA
Known for
- Mount Mutombo — Self2025
- Power Moves with Shaquille O'Neal — Self2025
- Allen Iv3rson — Self2025
- Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul — Self (archive footage)2022
- The Redeem Team — Self (archive footage)2022
- Hustle — Allen Iverson2022
- Kevin Garnett: Anything Is Possible — Self2021
- Vince Carter: Legacy2021
- Ready or Not: The 96 NBA Draft2021
- The Golden Generation — Self (archive footage)2018
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1975
Discography
- 40 Bars2000
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 3,515
- Total plays
- 25,944
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Allen Ezail Iverson (born June 7, 1975, in Hampton, Virginia), nicknamed A.I., The Answer and Bubbachuck, is an American professional basketball player. He is an All-Star guard for the Detroit Pistons franchise of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In 2000, Iverson recorded a rap album named Misunderstood, with the single 40 Bars. However, after being criticized for its controversial lyrics, he eventually was unable to release it. Going under his moniker, "Jewels", the album was alleged
Sports profile
- Sport
- Basketball
- Position
- Point Guard
- Nationality
- United States
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Hampton
- Occupation
- rapper
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Award
- All-NBA Team
- Participant in
- 1995 Summer Universiade
- Instrument
- voice
- Sport
- basketball
- Position played
- shooting guard
- Country for sport
- United States
- Mass
- 75
- Official website
- www.alleniverson3.net
- Image
- Allen Iverson headshot.jpg
- Height
- 183
- Residence
- Atlanta
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- Commons category
- Allen Iverson
- date of birth
- 1975-06-07
- drafted by
- Philadelphia 76ers
- pseudonym
- Allen Ezail Iverson
- end of work period
- 2012-00-00
- start of work period
- 1996-00-00
- social media followers
- 1314189
- nickname
- The Answer
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Encyclopedic overview
Allen Ezail Iverson (/ˈaɪvərsən/ EYE-vər-sən; born June 7, 1975) is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed "the Answer", he played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as both a shooting guard and point guard. As an NBA rookie with the Philadelphia 76ers in 1997, Iverson was named NBA Rookie of the Year. He was an 11-time NBA All-Star, won the All-Star Game MVP Award in 2001 and 2005, and was the NBA's Most Valuable Player (MVP) in 2001. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016. In October 2021, he was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team. Iverson is regarded as one of the game's greatest scorers, ball handlers, guards, and among the most influential athletes in all of American sports.
Iverson attended Bethel High School in Hampton, Virginia, and was a dual-sport athlete. He earned the Associated Press High School Player of the Year award in both football and basketball, and won the Division 5 AAA Virginia state championship in both sports. After high school, Iverson played college basketball with the Georgetown Hoyas for two years, where he set the school record for career scoring average (23.0 points per game) and won the Big East Defensive Player of the Year award both years.
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