Despite blinding talent, Alan Iverson never had a particularly easy path. A brilliant basketball and football talent in high school - he had a serious future at quarterback if he had wanted to pursue it - his career was nearly ended before it began when he was accused of being involved in a bowling-alley brawl.
He was convicted too, and none of it made sense nor was fair. Fortunately Gov. Douglas Wilder granted him clemency after four months and he was a free man.
After two years at Georgetown, Iverson went to the NBA where he began to dazzle as one of the greatest little men in the history of the game.