01-09-2007, 07:24 PM
|
#1 (permalink)
|
|
Basketballboards Benchwarmer
Join Date: Nov 2006
Posts: 161
|
David Stern wants Allen Iverson Dead -- interesting article
Quote:
David Stern wants Allen Iverson Dead
excerpt:
In the corporate powerhouse known as the NBA, its commissioner, the affirmative David Stern, wants Allen Iverson dead. Not deceased as in the Godfather of Soul James Brown (rest in peace) but dead as in the boxing career of Mike Tyson. He wants the somewhat detrimental image that the urban icon ad troubled NBA superstar represents to be done and completely over with.
The party is over. There's nothing happening. Go home.
Oh, it's nothing personal. It's just that the NBA is a long-standing enterprise which generates billions of dollars and as the case with any business, the product itself always has to be protected.
Perhaps originally, Stern underestimated the global impact that Iverson, an exquisite product of the Hip Hop Generation, would have upon his exuberant arrival into the NBA. When the "powers that be" instructively inserted the name Allen Iverson into its ever-present and money-driven marketing machine, it imminently failed to properly analyze the intangibles of a person built on being respected not for what others want him to be but simply for being himself. You see, Iverson is the definition of real. Not how the term is defined in Webster's Dictionary, but how it is widely perceived amongst today's generation -- Generation Y. Real, meaning what you see is what you get, and not attempting to be anything other than who or what he matter-of-factly is. No hidden clauses. No fine print. No unanswered questions. There is nothing false nor fake about him. Simply put, when you look at Iverson, what you see is the unsolicited truth. He is also the reason why fellow NBA superstar Kobe Bryant is widely considered as being fake.
With Iverson, it is never about being accepted by mainstream America because, as with many beliefs of urban America, it's not as if they are accepted anyway. As urbanized as they come, Iverson brought along the street-born culture with him into the NBA. Now it's highly impossible that Stern can change an entire culture without suffering the same fate as Saddam Hussein, but he can possibly change the manner in which his product is affected by culture.
|
We love him for the braids and the tats!
|
|
|
David Stern wants Allen Iverson Dead -- interesting article
Linear Mode
