Basketball, Culture, & the Magic of Allen Iverson

Iverson has been immortalized in Philadelphia, a reminder of the impact he had on basketball and American culture at large

I remember my first pair of basketball shoes that were endorsed by an athlete. They weren’t Air Jordans, or Kobe’s, or even a pair of T-Macs. They were a pair of Reebok Answer 3’s, or more well known as Allen Iverson’s shoe. People that were teenagers in the…