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He should have become what Tony Parker became, in order to get himself closer to the championship he deserves as he got older. Nevertheless, a future Hall of Famer and real dude from the state of Virginia has retired today. Here is the press conference below. You know it's going to be a painful season for your franchise when a former player's retirement is the best thing about your season. (More to come at The Whole Delivery, stay tuned.) 

He'll be back in this jersey...... After a few days speculation, and the Sixers offering, he will most likely retire as a Sixer Allen Iverson informed the Philadelphia 76ers Wednesday morning that he will accept their one-year, non-guaranteed offer. The contract is for a pro-rated veteran's minimum of $1.3 million. "In light of the recent injury to Lou Williams, which will sideline him for close to eight weeks, we felt that Allen was the best available free agent guard to help us at this time," team president Ed Stefanski said. I was hoping that somehow, someway, the Cavs will show interest in order for him to get a championship ring. But retiring in Philadelphia, where it all started after Georgetown, is the best way to go for now.

Photo from AP Stephen A. Smith announced on his radio show that Allen Iverson is retiring from the NBA after 14 seasons (really 13 and a little bit more technically) in the league. More to talk about to come, but he created this type of ending for himself. He just couldn't deal with the fact of not being the premiere man on the team. And even more disturbing is the fact that he placed that more on his heart than winning an NBA title. Again, breaking news, Allen Iverson is retiring from the game after 13 plus seasons.

(Both Photos from the Charlotte Observer) It actually was time for a charge for not only America as a whole, but also for Iverson and Billups'. Due to the overload of Election Coverage last week, I never had a chance to focus fully on the Allen Iverson-Chauncey Billups trade last week, and the ramifications of that deal for both the Detroit Pistons and the Denver Nuggets. Until now. Obviously, in terms of winning a title, both teams were not going to do that in their versions before the trade. The Pistons saw their chance go away last season against the Celtics in the East finals (as well as against the Cavaliers, Heat, and the Spurs in the recent past) . The Nuggets, who Stephen A.Smith famously thought was going to the NBA Finals against the eventual champions Celtics last year, never showed any defensive heart at all, and that was even with Marcus Camby. You know you are defensively deficient when you not only have a former Defense Player of the Year being unable to influence th...