<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">It was a little more than a year ago that the NBA introduced a player dress code aimed at buttoning down the league's hip-hop fashion sense. So when the Philadelphia 76ers hopped off their bus into the Air Canada Centre last night, they looked, for the most part, like a gaggle of exceptionally tall young executives. They wore, many of them, pinstripe suits and custom-made shirts monogrammed at the French cuff. They wore, in other words, what the league wants them to wear. Only Allen Iverson, the tattooed veteran whose penchant for falling-off-the-butt jeans and worn-to-the-side ball caps were targets of the dress code, strode through the corridor outfitted in authority-defying accessories. He wore a ball cap, albeit a ball cap that matched a baggy, khaki outfit that could have been loosely described as a suit. And peaking out from beneath the cap's brim: a black doo-rag. On one head, then, resided two pieces of headgear that fall under the "excluded items" section of the dress code. But it was just another tiny example of The Answer's relentlessness. Just when you think he might be contained ? as a fashion rule-breaker or as an ageing ankle breaker ? he remains uncontainable. He turned 31 in June. He's in his 11th season. But he came into last night's game, his fifth outing of the season, leading the league in scoring with 30.5 points per game. There are observers who never thought he'd still be playing so effectively at this age, that the wear-and-tear of 686 games of bone-to-floor contact would have exacted an unhelpful toll on his 6-foot, 165-pound frame.</div> Source
I don't expect Allen to drop in productivity much. There is a good chance he'll go out averaging 25-29 points a game.
Iverson will retire when he starts to decline, or when he knows he cant win a championship. but that wont be until hes like 40.
