Allen Iverson was born on June 7th, 1975 in Hampton, VA. He had 2 younger sisters. He went to the Bethel High School, Hampton, Virginia, United States. He played for the football team and the basketball team and in his junior year, he led both teams in the Virginia state championships.

Chapter 1: Early life

As he served a sentence in a jail for the bowling riots case in 1993, he finished his high school education at Richard Milburn High School, a school for at-risk students. In Richard Milburn High School, he was noticed by Georgetown University Coach John Thompson, who recognised the talent in him and offered him a full time scholarship to the Georgetown Hoyas basketball team.

During his period in Georgetown University, he excelled in basketball and received many prestigious titles like the Big East Defensive Player of the Year award and the Big East Rookie of the Year.In 1995, as a member of the USA World University Games, he led the U.S.A team to a 141-81 victory over the host country, Japan. The team won the gold medal for that year.

In 1996, after he had played two seasons for Georgetown University, he was selected for the NBA draft by the Philadelphia 76ers, a basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.In the 1998-1999 season, he earned his first title score and averaged 26.8 points, which led the league. This gave him a chance to partake in his first All NBA team and play in the playoffs.

Chapter 2: The NBA

Before the 1999-2000 season, he signed a six year contract extension for a sum of $70 million. The Philadelphia 76ers qualified for the playoffs, in which he averaged 26.2 points, 4.8 assists, 4 rebounds and 1.3 steals per game. In the 2000 off-season, he had many disagreements with the coach, Larry Brown and the team attempted to trade him to Detroit Pistons.

In the 2000-01 season, he steered his team to victories in ten games, averaged a score of 31.1, earning his second NBA scoring title. In the playoffs the Philadelphia 76ers defeated Indiana Pacers in the first round and reached the finals. The 2001-2002 season turned out to be a disappointing one for the Philadelphia 76ers as they managed to scrape their way into the playoffs only to lose to the Boston Celtics in the first round.