Hey it’s March Madness and slowing turning into April and we have basketball on our mind! Before AI as in artificial intelligence there was AI, as in the person of Allen Iverson. An amazing undersized, lightning-quick light point guard out of Georgetown who then landed on the the Philadelphia 76ers = then home of Julius Erving and Moses Malone.
Can you tell I’m kind of a hoops junkie. Love the game. I grew up listening to Chick Hearn calling Lakers games on AM Radio (who saw Winning Time on HBO - the glitz and glamour, the Fabulous Forum, Kareem and Magic - hating the Celtics - it was the ‘80s baby) and I was always dribbling, working on shots and the rest….
How could anyone not love watching, playing. Ok played a bit in high school and then an intramural star only to be followed by a few surgeries to the l…
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