In the time since Allen Iverson has stepped away from basketball, his legacy has grown. Kent Babb, a writer for The Washington Post, has taken the opportunity to write an in-depth biography of the Virginia native. , chronicles Iverson's full life, and Sporting News was given permi sion Dominique Easley Jersey to run an excerpt about the retired NBA All-Star'sdays on the AAU circuit.The following excerpt is uncensored and contains language that might be offensive to some readers.MORE: | | During summers, Ann Iverson trusted her son with Boo Williams, a former power forward at St. Johns who now ran his own Amateur Athletic Union team. Alonzo Mourning had come and gone through Williamss system, moving on to Georgetown University and future stardom, and Iverson was his next project, a kid with so much talent and speed, and ...My God, Allen, do you ever shut up?Fourteen hours. That was how long he talked, from Hampton to Memphis, teammate and future University of Maryland star Joe Smith going to sleep to pa s the time in some way other than listening to Iversons impre sions and jokes and continual wisdom, but when he woke up, Iverson was still jabbering. He was going out to Tenne see, where the new arena was a damn pyramidhad they seen it?and Iverson was going to help them christen that place. Watch how many points he scored, how easy it would be for him to get to the basket, how many shots in a row he would make, and anyway, did anybody want to bet? Just a buck or two, chump change, come on. Coaches learned early on that Iverson was an incentive-based organism: Ask him to Johnny Hekker Jersey do something, and he was just as likely to do it as tell you to go fuck yourself. But add five dollars to the equation or a pay-per-view movie in the hotel room or pizza instead of some bullshit boxed chicken, and now you had a damn machine, eager, ready to please.He bet on free throws and bowling and late-night Monopoly marathons, Iverson always the banker to see to it nobody would steal, always the one with the fat stack of phony money when the night was finished. But he Darrell Henderson Jersey had won, goddammit, and that was what mattered. Could he not dunk at age thirteen, flying through the air and going above the rim on a regulation goal? We dont play that YMCA shit, Harper said much later. Had Iverson not scored thirty points three games in a row at the AAU nationals in Winston-Salem, North Carolinanot just in each game but by halftime, propelling him to the top of the national recruiting rankings? What he did will never be done, Williams would recall, and Ive been in this thirty-two years.Iverson was going Brandin Cooks Jersey to show them in Memphis, too, he kept telling them, the teammates and coaches in that little van feeling trapped inside a cloud of Iversons nonstop chatter. Damn, did the kid not sleep? Did his batteries never run low? Fuck nah, he replied, did Michaels? Did Mikes batteries ever run low? He hoped not, because he was ready to play Mike now, leave him in the dust.Whatever, Williams told him. Michael Evans was a solid player: Not just the best point guard in eastern Virginia but one of the best in America. Keep practicing, Allen, and maybe in a year or two youll ...I wasnt talking about no Michael Evans, Iverson crowed.Who are you talking about, then?Shit, Im talking about Michael Jordan!They rolled their eyes, and when they finally rolled into Memphis and that pyramid, Iverson and the Boo Williams under-sixteen team tore through the competitionwell, most of itand finished second. Iverson was named most valuable player, and that was great and all, but that meant it was time to go home: another Derek Carrier Jersey fourteen hours of Iverson Radio, all the hitsfrom today and yesterday, and commercials for tomorrow. That was some bullshit, he said early in the drive, talking about the second-place trophy, threatening to throw the damn thing out the window as they plowed down Interstate 40.Allen, somebody said, will you shut up if we stop somewhere for dinner?He smiled, something in it for him now, and for a long time he did not say another word.