Is The Answer An Option?

Of course. From a team chemistry standpoint, AI is not still not a bench player in his mind..So no.,

Just kidding!

I always loved watching AI. He comes to play and causes many OMIGODs while he’s on court. But, I have a nutty bias against tats. (In fact you should do a blog on the best-worst tatted players.) Mikki leaving was going to bring our aggregate tat count down and AI would bring it right back up. And it is hard to imagine AI dishing to Eddie or Rasheed except as a last resort. So I voted NO.
But the little bugger can play defense when he wants to (and he would want to/have to on this team) and he is exciting.

He got a chance to see Iverson up close in Detroit. If he’s happy with the move AND AI agrees to come off the bench, why not?

I’m not sure there’s ever been player with AI’s talent and individual accomplishments who really will define his legacy and reputation by what he does at this point in his career. If he is willing to change his game and do what teams need him to do, he could make any contender the prohibitive favorite for the title and make a bunch of 2nd tier teams legitimate contenders. Or, he can go somewhere where he can play exactly the way he’s played his whole career and go down in NBA history as one of it’s most talented losers.

Mike

At least with Marbury, he came in knowing that he would be a role player on this team and said he had no problem with it. We signed him based on the assumption that he would stay true to his word. And he did. Unfortunately, Marbury either didnt gel as a backup and was just uncomfortable in our system.

Iverson has already balked at coming off the bench. He forced a team to make one of its perenial starters move to the bench to accomodate him, a player who hadnt even been with the team a half of a season. This team traded for him in a contract year and he still refused to suck up his ego for the good of the team. In Detriot all he would have had to do is come off the bench, he’d recieve the same amount of minutes as before, he just refused to give up the title of a starter. Now we expect him to come here and not only come off the bench, but not even play major minutes. Hes fighting for the left over minutes of Rondo and Ray Allen, which are a lot of minutes, but also factor in House and Marquis Daniels. Just would seem like a volitale situation.

I think it’s great that we rolled the dice with Marbury and it worked out locker room wise. However that doesnt mean we need to grab every problem player out there. This is why the house always wins in Vegas.

Is the perfect guy we need off the bench!!! Too much attention is paid to Iverson, Eddie house will have a field day. add Scal to the mix rasheed to the mix baby to the mix lol, there is no way of stopping such line up. you couldn’t double off of anyone. I’ll problem will be defensively. A.I. and House will get abused by the opposing team’s taller backcourt. This will work though because its 2nd team minutes. I’M ALL FOR IT!!!

To be 2nd in the nation in scoring last year, and on a pretty good shooting %, this kid has talent. I think he’s worth a roll of the dice for training camp, and maybe the D-League during the season. He’s older than Rondo, so he’s not a young turk.

lets sign him

You would be crazy not to do that. Maybe Ray would be willing to come off the bench and have AI start at shooting guard.

no way he signs with us anyway…moot point, but fun to think about.

I just can’t imagine AI signing for the vet min. It just defies belief. I see him in a 2nd tier playoff team for a portion of the MLE..

iverson has made it clear he wouldn’t come off the bench… so would he get the nod for the starting job, and then would rondo come off the bench? some how i have a hard time believing rondo would like that.

It could work out, if Iverson was willing to come off-the-bench, if he was willing to play less minutes than he used to, and if we could turn around and trade House for a signed-and-traded Daniels. Iverson could get 25-30 minutes at the 1/2 spots…

Lotsa ifs, though, for a high-risk, medium reward signing….

locker room poison. no thanks.

Of course I said the same about Marbury but at least he said the right things before joining the team. AI has made no such comments about being part of something bigger than himself.

BRING HIM IN !!!!

Getting AI is like shoving a finger down your throat because of a mild stomach ache. I mean, not exactly the best solution, but maybe it will help.

And started him. We could let him play for like 10 mins and then sub him out? We could do this on the not so good teams just incase? Sound stupid?

He’ll say all the right things for about a week. Then he’ll do his best to wreck the team.

Worst possible move they could make.

I voted “no,” looked at all the comments and was kinda swayed, and then … hit in the head by the reality Brickowski.
Yup, that’s basically A.I. There’s one qualifier, though; if somehow the combined magical karma of Rasheed (were they tight?), the Big Three and the promise of a ring, then sure. Oh, and reversing his apparently stated belief in retiring over subbing.
Just doesn’t seem to add up, though stranger things have happened.

it’s the silly season. ai wants a lot more dough than we have to offer, as well as more playing time. maybe groucho’s line would fit ai (modified)— i would not want to play for any team that would want me as a player.

last year Detroit fans were excited becuase they had AI and Sheed in the starting 5, that’d be funny if we went into the year as our main bench contributors.

People are saying the remaining FAs are setting their sights a little lower has the days go by and they still don’t have a gig with a NBA team.

If AI’s willing to play his role and be humble, then who knows. But, that doesn’t seem likely….so I’ll say no.

I am shocked that right now the majority favor AI coming. Wow.

sign him to a ten day contract or put him on the roster for preseason and then decided if we want to keep him or after the ten day contract sign him to another one then if he really seems commited to coming off the bench and doesnt pull a fake injury then sure sign him

the problem like eveyone is saying is that he has said he wont do it and he will not start over rondo or ray so his ass needs to be on the bench

u have ur starting 5 with rasheed now neone gets out of line like bbd or ai then i think those guys can all keep them in line kg has worn off on all those guys

and hey maybe with rasheed being there him and ai can talk about changing roles and rasheed can help him understand this is wut he needs to do to get a championship
but dont sign him more then a year

But AI would have to know his role, be a good soldier and do what he was told. How scary on paper would our roster look by adding him? Our 2nd unit could compete with most NBA starting units!

he agrees to play for 18 minutes a game behind Rondo for minimum money or sign and trade money (for T.Allen or Scal). He comes in for 18 minutes per game and it is Iverson, House, Daniels, Davis, & Wallace off of the pine. That group could win 40 games as starters. Why not? Under those circumstances, if he decides to become a pain in the rear, you sit him or waive him or trade him. The problem is not whether you get him. The problem is how much do you commit. If you don’t over commit, then the team is fine..

If Iverson will sign for the veteran’s minimum then YES absolutely take him. It would be fiscally irresponsible to turn down that talent for that cheap.

I think AI would come here and play one season off the bench if he could except the short money for a title, yes where talking NBA Championship Allen not “practice” “practice”!!!!!!!