Allen Iverson

Legal problem(苦难与成功）
• On February 14, 1993, Iverson and several of his friends became involved in an altercation with several patrons at a bowling alley in Hampton, Virginia. Allegedly, Iverson's crowd was raucous and had to be asked to quiet down several times, and eventually a shouting duel began with another group of youths. Shortly thereafter, a huge fight erupted, pitting the white crowd against the blacks. During the fight, Iverson allegedly struck a woman in the head with a chair. Iverson drew a 15-year prison sentence, with 10 years suspended. After Iverson spent four months at Newport News City Farm, a correctional facility in Newport News, Virginia, he was granted clemency by Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, and the Virginia Court of Appeals overturned the conviction in 1995 for insufficient evidence.[ This incident and its impact on the community is explored in the documentary film No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson. Iverson said of his time in prison, "I had to use the whole jail situation as something positive. Going to jail, someone sees something weak in you, they'll exploit it. I never showed any weakness. I just kept going strong until I came out."
Choose to enter NBA(选择与命运） (传统与创新）
• 题目示例： • 1.Do people must be different from others in order to success? (传统与创新） • 2.when its hard to change the surrounding of a person ,is it better to change one’s attitude?
Early life（苦难与成功）
• Because of poverty and hardship in his early life ,Iverson has developed a stronger will than his peers at a very young age. “They can not break me . The only way to break me is to kill me, And everything that does not kill me makes me stronger” he once said : “Only The Strong Survive.” His strong will became the most important factors that helped him to success in the NBA.
Allen Iverson
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achievements
• Iverson was an eleven-time NBA All-Star and won the All-Star MVP award in 2001 and 2005. 这个在举例子时 最好用，名头最响且好记 • All-NBA Third Team (2006) • NBA Rookie of the Year (1997) • NBA All-Rookie First Team (1997) • NBA Rookie Challenge MVP (1997) • 4× NBA scoring champion (1999, 2001–2002,2005) • 3× NBA steals leader (2001–2003) • No. 3 retired by Philadelphia 76ers • Consensus first team All-American (1996) • 这些奖都不是很重要，而且很难记
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Legal problem(苦难与成功）
• This affair in his early life made Iverson get to understand that poor people ,especially blacks in poverty like him ,cannot survive in the society if they do not try their best to make people apply them and respect them. So he became harder practicing basketball just to earn others respect, also to help his mother to support the family. This spirit supported him to face any hardship in NBA and became a superstar known all over the world.
Choose to enter NBA(选择与命运） (传统与创新）
• Allen Iverson is only 1.83M in height. When he was chosen to play in the NBA, many critiques showed worry and doubt on him because he is too short. They assumed that a player in the NBA must be at least 1.90M in height. But Allen just ignored these doubts. He used himself as an example to show that a “dwarf” can also be successful in basketball as well as those tall pla）
• Allen Iverson was born in Hampton, Virginia to his single 15-year-old mother, Ann Iverson. At eight years of age, Iverson witnessed his first murder. Anne had never gotten married. It means Iverson and his two sisiters can't get any reasonable right from the beginning. Iverson's father has no meaning in Iverson's life,he paid nothing for the Iverson's. The area they lived in was full of drags violence murder and rob. The whole memory of Iverson's childhood may be only sewage and the smile of his mother. The dirty environment made Iverson's sisters ill most of the time. What they had to face is not having enough to eat and to wear but how to live. Anne had to work for more than 18 hours to keep the family. After many years when Iverson talked about his mother he said: "She'd done everything she could."