2006 - 2007 Sixers Season Thread

[PoopyfaceMcGee]

MVP!

[Sgt PSN]

Team.  Basketball.

[Rome]

Plenty of room on the Magic bandwagon...

:whistle

[PhillyPhreak54]

Bobby Jones and Louis Williams assigned to the NBDL...

[BigEd76]

hmmm...CSN says they have news of AI being fined by the Sixers, but they didn't say why.  Nothing on Philly.com yet...

[BigEd76]

Update: AI was the only one that didn't show up for tonight's annual meet-and-greet with the corporate sponsors and he'll be fined "substantially".

[MDS]

He's matured. Team. Basketball.

[hunt]

it's his teammates' fault that a1 got into an arguement with his coach, stormed out of practice, & blew off a team event later that day.
definitely his teammates' fault....or maybe billy king's.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Nothin brings Hunt outta the woodwork faster than a good AI controversey.

[hunt]

A.I. faces fine for skipping team function; leaves practice early, too

By PHIL JASNER
jasnerp@phillynews.com

It didn't cost anything for corporate sponsors and others to attend a 76ers meet-and-greet last night at the Lucky Strike Bowling Lanes.

It cost Allen Iverson a substantial amount of money for not attending.

Coach Maurice Cheeks confirmed that the Sixers captain was the only player not to make a mandatory appearance at the event, and said he "will be fined accordingly.''

The Center City event was attended by about 300 sponsors, premium seat-holders and some season ticketholders.

"We would have liked him to be there, but he wasn't, and that was his choice,'' Cheeks said. "I can't speculate on why he wasn't there, but he wasn't there.''

A source said Iverson was upset when he left practice earlier in the day, less than an hour after the 11 a.m. start at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine.

After practice, Cheeks said Iverson had left early because he "was a little fatigued.''

Asked whether Iverson had been upset, Cheeks said, "Whatever happened between him and me, I'd like to keep that private.''

Iverson was coming off a 45-point performance in Monday night's 103-91 loss in Miami in which he shot 17-for-37 from the floor. Since missing two games because of dental surgery to have an abscessed wisdom tooth removed, he has accumulated 122 points in three games, including a loss to Detroit and a victory over Chicago.

In mid-October, Iverson said that the players last season took some advantage of Cheeks, a former star guard with the team who also had served as an assistant coach. Last season was Cheeks' first as the head coach, succeeding the fired Jim O'Brien.

"It's always like that in life, it's always like that,'' Iverson said at the time. "As a parent, you know your kid is always going to take advantage of you if they can. Anybody in life will try to take advantage if they can.

"It's just been that way. If somebody's easygoing and they're laid-back, you're going to expect them to be that way all the time, and you'll act accordingly. That's the way it's probably been, even [with] myself, just knowing Mo Cheeks and knowing him as a person, not really knowing him as a head coach.

"It was kind of [easier] than it had been for me. I had tough coaches. It was real different for me. It's important for us to not try to take advantage of something like that. You've got to respect him for being the person that he is, and respect him for the job that he has.''

At the time, Iverson also said, "He's still kind of laid-back at times, but he's been a little different from the Mo Cheeks that I know. I think he has a lot of pressure on him to succeed around here, and he's going to make sure everything's done his way.''

[ice grillin you]

im all for anything that destroys this team as much as possible...they cannot squeak in the playoffs because of a horrid eastern conference...i want a top three pick this year

[hunt]

true.
i also saw an interview with sammy where he blamed his teammates for his constant foul trouble...he said a lot of his fouls come from playing help D & when other guys don't rotate properly on D.

this team is getting ready to implode.

[Rome]

Iverson's a farging disgrace.

[phattymatty]

if i was a superstar athlete, i wouldn't be wasting my time meeting a bunch of suits and shmoes like you guys either.

[hunt]

more good news...shavlik randolph broke his ankle at practice.