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Iverson Starts In Spite Of Injury
Iverson, the NBA's leading scorer, suffered the injury in the third quarter of Tuesday night's victory over Denver when he came down awkwardly after a three-point shot. Athletic trainer Kevin Johnson retaped Iverson's ankle during a time-out and Iverson wound up playing 13 of the game's final 18 minutes. Coach Maurice Cheeks said before last night's game that he was going to keep a watchful eye on Iverson to make sure the ankle is not bothering him. "I don't want to jeopardize him getting hurt later on for him to play tonight," Cheeks said. "We've got a lot more games on this trip." Iverson has played in each of his team's 29 games. He last played in all 82 regular-season games during the 2002-03 season. Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Iverson's Game-Winner Trumps Anthony's 45
Iverson scored 36 points, including the game-winning basket, and the Philadelphia 76ers overcame Anthony's career-high 45 to beat the Denver Nuggets 108-106 on Tuesday night. Chris Webber added 32 points and 15 rebounds, none bigger than the one in the final minute that set up Iverson's winning shot. After Webber grabbed Earl Watson's miss from long range, the Sixers called a timeout with 21 seconds left. Iverson took the inbounds pass and stalled at midcourt until driving on Andre Miller, then pulling up and sinking the basket from the top of the key with 4.2 seconds remaining. "I was surprised that they just let me wind the clock down and take a shot," Iverson said. "I told my teammates that I was going to wind it down. ... I was hoping if I did miss, the ball would bounce and the time would run out." Philadelphia 76ers, Denver Nuggets Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Iverson's 53 Wasted In Sixers' Loss To Hawks
Iverson scored 53 points, the fifth-highest total of his career, but Joe Johnson had 24 to lead the Hawks over the Philadelphia 76ers 111-108 on Friday night. "I'm as disappointed as everybody else on my team," Iverson said. "We wanted to go into the holidays with a win. We'll have to get this one out of our system and come back to work." Zaza Pachulia added a career-high 23 points, including the go-ahead free throws, and Al Harrington scored 22 for Atlanta, which won its fourth straight at home and its fifth in the last seven games overall. "We shared the ball," Pachulia said. "We had 29 assists, and that's great. We shot pretty good also, 54 percent. It's tough to beat a team like that." Philadelphia 76ers, Atlanta Hawks Read the Full Story Discuss Send Feedback Buy Tickets Sixers Dec 2005 Archive
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Allen Iverson has played in every game this season, and he kept his streak intact last night, starting the 76ers' game against the Portland Trail Blazers despite a sprained right ankle. He finished with 28 points.