We’re Scatching Our Heads About This One Too
Posted by BMT on January 7th, 2010
Philly.com is reporting that Sixers’ guard, Allen Iverson, is currently 2nd to Dwayne Wade among vote-getters in NBA All-Star voting for Eastern Conference guards. Before you say “how is this possible, he’s only played 13 games?” let us enlighten you with a few stats reflecting just how dominant he’s been this season:
- Iverson is averaging 14 points per game, good for 64th in the NBA
- Iverson is averaging 4.5 assists per game, good for 28th in the NBA
- Iverson is averaging 2.8 rebounds per game, good for 151st in the NBA
- Iverson has a FG% of .459, good for 73rd in the NBA
- Iverson has a FT% of .792, good for 60th in the NBA
- Iverson is averaging .77 steals per game, good for 97th in the NBA
- And in his only top-25 category statistically, Iverson’s 3PT% is .429, good for an 11th-place tie with J.J. Reddick
Far be it from us to point out the ridiculous nature of All-Star voting. Of course the good news this tells us is that the Sixers, the third-worst team in the NBA, have the second-best guard in the East.
January 7th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
Haha, Mcgrady is 2nd in guards in the West! Classic stuff right there.
January 8th, 2010 at 2:53 pm
i think iverson deserves to be in the all-star game.
January 8th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
Well, he doesn’t deserve it, per se, because he is not even close to being one of the best 12 players in the Eastern Conference. In fact, I dare say that Iguodala is more deserving if you look at the numbers. But the NBA All Star game is a popularity contest, not a talent contest. If you are going on popularity, then yes Iverson deserves it. I mean, what has Iverson done? He’s taken a bad team and…made them pretty much equally as bad as they were before he got here.