I'm a Hall of Famer, and I can go outside today and go to a restaurant or wherever, and somebody will come up to me and say, 'Practice? We talkin' 'bout practice?' Man, I am a Hall of Famer, and that's all you can think about?
We talkin' about practice?
In eighth grade, I was actually better in football. I played running back, wide receiver, and safety - just like Allen Iverson.
As a kid growing up, I wanted the Allen Iverson shoes that came out, the Questions. My dad got them for me, so I was excited about that.
We talkin' bout practice?
There's nothing that sells good about Allen Iverson if it's something positive about Allen Iverson.
I can't walk in an airport, walk into a gym, where the kids in the gym don't come to me and ask me about Allen and tell me he's their favorite player of all time. And everywhere I go in airports, people look at me, and they, 'You're Allen's coach.'
Allen Iverson is, like, my all-time hero.
One of my big influences as a young player was Allen Iverson. All I wanted to do was the left-to-right crossover, because that's the one he was doing most.
I watched a lot of Scottie Pippen, Magic Johnson, Kevin Durant, and a lot of Paul Pierce. I used to watch Tracy McGrady as well along with Kevin Garnett.
A negative Allen Iverson story is the greatest Allen Iverson story, for some reason.
The Stepover definitely made me famous. The thing with Allen Iverson is, he made me.
