| 02 December 2009
Again, "the lil' boy" deserved better.
I feel sorry for him. I feel sorry for the franchise. Will still root and cheer for both, though, because I am a S-I-X-E-R-S fan.
I am officially giving up on Ed Stefanski, that I was a big supporter of, after learning that Sixers signed Allen Iverson to the one year deal.
I was fine with Jrue Holiday learning the PG job, I was fine with waiting for Lou Williams to come back, even losing games, as was happening in the last weeks.
I was thinking long term and I was seeing this stretch as a (tough, painful, yeah) part of a growing process that eventually would have paid off.
As for Iverson (in the pic, the guy in the middle, wearing a throwback Sixers jersey), I was hoping that he could find a contender and have another shot at a title there. Cleveland, Orlando, something like that. After all Gary Payton & Alonzo Mourning (not to mention Antoine Walker) won a ring in Miami at the end of their careers, playing a reserve role in a very good team. I thought/hoped that Bubba Chuck could do the same.
Iverson won't bring us to a championship, there are also big chances that he won't even lead us to the playoffs. He will surely sell more tickets, entertain us, put the Sixers back in the NBA map. Sixers fans will give him all the love he deserves, and he will give that back, that's 100% guaransheed.
Dear Ed Stefanski, I lost you, and you lost control of this team, that has no direction. Signing an aging Iverson and add him to a scrappy Sixers team will be the last, sad chapter of a story that has been wonderful.
What should we expect after this move? I say initial excitement and a (short) emotional boost, then some more butts to fill the empty seats of the Wachovia center, a 37-38 W season, no playoffs and a low pick this summer, when we'll likely say "adios" to Iverson for the second time.
He deserved better, we, Sixers fans, deserved better.
Let's go Sixers.
