Allen Iverson

In 1993, he became involved in a fight at the Circle Lanes bowling alley in Hampton, Virginia. It was alleged that he struck a woman in the head with a chair. He was arrested and spent four months at Newport News City Farm, a correctional facility in Newport News, Virginia.

In 1995, the Virginia Court of Appeals and Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder granted clemency and overturned the conviction as there was insufficient evidence.

On August 3, 2001, he married his childhood sweetheart, Tawanna Turner. The couple had 4 children. They divorced in January 2013.

Allen Ezail Iverson was born to Ann Iverson, a single 15 year old mother at the time of his birth. His father Allen Broughton had abandoned his mother.

He went to the Bethel High School, Hampton, Virginia, United States. He played for the football team and the basketball team and in his junior year, he led both teams in the Virginia state championships.

As he served a sentence in a correctional facility for the bowling riots case in 1993, he finished his high school education at Richard Milburn High School, a school for at-risk students.

In Richard Milburn High School, he was noticed by Georgetown University Coach John Thompson, who recognised the talent in him and offered him a full time scholarship to the Georgetown Hoyas basketball team.

During his period in Georgetown University, he excelled in basketball and received many prestigious titles like the Big East Defensive Player of the Year award and the Big East Rookie of the Year.

In 1995, as a member of the USA World University Games, he led the U.S.A team to a 141-81 victory over the host country, Japan. The team won the gold medal for that year.

In 1996, after he had played two seasons for Georgetown University, he was selected for the NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers, a basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

In the 1998-1999 season, he earned his first title score and averaged 26.8 points, which led the league. This gave him a chance to partake in his first All NBA team and play in the playoffs.

Before the 1999-2000 season, he signed a six year contract extension for a sum of $70 million. The Philadelphia 76ers qualified for the playoffs, in which he averaged 26.2 points, 4.8 assists, 4 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game.

In the 2000 off-season, he had many disagreements with the coach, Larry Brown and the team attempted to trade him to Detroit Pistons. However, player Matt Geiger did not forfeit the $5 million trade kicker.

In 1997, he won the NBA Rookie of the Year Award.

In 2001, he was honoured as NBA’s Most Valuable Player.