Clippers Need An Answer Now

<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Allen Iverson is on the block and phones are ringing.

The Minnesota Timberwolves are first in line? No, check that, it's the Charlotte Bobcats!

Reached on his couch back in Philadelphia, Iverson said, "No freakin' way," and went back to sleep.

Hold everything, it's our very own L.A. Clippers. The deal would push owner Donald Sterling's payroll past the luxury tax threshold for the first time. Oddsmakers give a better chance to Britney, Paris or Lindsay first uttering something intelligible.

Hang on there, no less than Pat Riley, head coach and president of the Miami Heat, just mentioned he had a "level of interest." Riley said he would have nothing more to say about it, but then recalled he said the same thing before acquiring Shaquille O'Neal.

And the Denver Nuggets are very much still in there, and the Sacramento Kings are waiving their little arms like some open guard on the 3-point line and the Boston Celtics are suddenly very big on hip hop.

That's a lot of attention for a player some surmised no teams would be interested in because he came with enough baggage to keep Samsonite in business the next decade.

The theory was that Iverson's "urban" image would scare off most teams, that in the fact that he's 31 and, for something like the sixth consecutive year, people are expecting his playing ability is about to head south.</div>

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