Seventy-Sixers' Fan Appreciation Days Can't Be Beat!
By now you have probably heard about Allen Iverson and Chris Webber missing the 76ers last home game last night.
Yes, missing their last home game on fan appreciation night. What a way to appreciate the fans eh?
There are lots of ways to look at this, but let me get something out of the way: Chris Webber had no justifiable reason to do this. I'm really starting to hate this guy, who has never won anywhere he has been in the league. Moved around a lot, and complained about the past teams he has been with.
So Chris Webber can eat it.
As for Allen Iverson, well we know he is unhappy, he has been with the Sixers for 10 seasons and taken them to the playoffs 6 times. That's not entirely bad, and not being able to get it totally done is not his fault.
He is coming off his best season averaging 33 points a game, and yet that is not enough because his team is not playing as a cohesive unit.
Who is to blame for this seasons failure? Certainly not Moe Cheeks, he does what he can, I mean look at what the guy went through in Portland with that group of miscreants, and now he moves to a new team and has to deal with all this drama? I just feel sorry for the man.
Which brings me to Billy King, who got really irate last night about the whole Iverson/Webber thing, and the clip has been all over the news. Well guess what Mr.King? You brought Webber to Philly, you brought a guy to Philly to help A.I. and they ended up being 5 and 1 when he DOES NOT PLAY.
King has done nothing to majorly restructure the team, nothing. I believe he thinks he can get away with it too as long as he has Allen Iverson to draw the fans and make money. I also believe he might have known Allen and Chris were not going to show up and his little tirade was a way to cover his ass.
Continuing with Allen though, he is unhappy, this was probably a way to show his unhappiness by embarrassing King. I don't necessarily disagree with Iverson, but I question his methods, not his motives.
Who Allen Iverson really ended up hurting was himself, and all the faith and goodwill he built up with Sixers fans. There is a time and a place to show your unhappiness Allen, but for god's sake, NOT ON FAN APPRECIATION NIGHT.
So for the record, I still like Iverson, I think him along with Kevin Garnett have the most heart of all the players in the NBA, he made one mistake last night and had his reasons.
Let's not crucify him for one misstep.
As for Chris Webber, please attack him all you want. Maybe he'll try to call a timeout he doesn't have.
