Michael Malone remembers a story his father, longtime NBA coach Brendan Malone, used to tell him about Allen Iverson.
The shortened version goes something like this: Iverson — a talented, irreverent point guard out of Georgetown — was playing in his first summer league after being drafted by Philadelphia in 1996. Malone recalls his father telling him that the coach of the 76ers, Johnny Davis, told the assistant running the summer league team: “Talk to Allen. He’s got to be more of a point guard.”
“So he talked to Allen Iverson and Iverson said: ‘You must not have watched me in college.