The real Iverson Allen Ezell Iverson, possibly the shortest giant on the basketball court, when he first stepped onto the NBA court floor, what he heard was not encouragement, but doubt.

After everyone looked at his size, they told him: "Your ultimate goal is to score 10 points and 5 assists per game. Because you are only 1.83 meters tall, you will never dominate here." But this is not Iverson.

For this little girl who grew up in the slums of Virginia, basketball was more than just a means to escape a class; she represented all the beliefs and values ??of a devout black Catholic.

Perhaps class of birth is not a decisive factor in a person's character and destiny, but for the extremely poor like Iverson, they actually have only two choices-resistance or death.

His entire childhood memories were just sewage and his mother's smile. Like many black Americans, Iverson came from a single-parent family. His mother, Annie, gave birth to Iverson when she was 15 years old. Annie never married.

This means that Iverson and his two sisters have not received fair social treatment from the beginning.

Iverson's biological father played no role in Iverson's life. He lived in Connecticut before Iverson was born. He did not pay a penny for Iverson's life until he was convicted of murdering himself last year.

He was imprisoned for his girlfriend, and he only met Iverson three times.

The memories of Iverson's entire childhood may just be sewage and his mother's smile. Iverson was living on the sewage pipes in Hampton, Virginia. The sewage pipes often burst, causing the Iverson family to be completely flooded by the sewage from the entire city.

The stench after the sewage receded could linger in his house for weeks, which made his two sisters often sick. Anne worked 18 hours a day and was unable to maintain the family's normal expenses. Their water and electricity supply was often cut off due to non-payment, so

Iverson's sick sister could never receive reasonable treatment. Their family had to face not only food and clothing, but also the most basic possibility of survival. However, Annie used various methods to make the family full of happiness and friendship all the time. Iverson spent many years

When he later commented on his mother, he said: "She did everything she could do!" Annie's boyfriend Michael Freeman was Iverson's de facto father. He spent half of his life in prison.

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A car accident in 1991 made Freeman unemployed. In order to support the nearly collapsed family, Freeman desperately started selling drugs. To this day, he is still imprisoned in Newport Prison in Virginia - Iverson was in prison in 1993.

Spent 4 months in this prison.

No one thinks that drug trafficking can be forgiven, but Freeman's statement in court tells the story of the living conditions of the lower class blacks in the United States, "I didn't buy Cadillacs or diamonds, I just paid the bills I should pay."

This bill certainly includes Iverson, who has not yet started making money with basketball.

Iverson has always been proud of his father, who is serving a sentence. "He didn't rob anyone, he just tried his best to feed his family. You can never imagine how much he loves his home. If he finds out after he comes out of prison,

He was the only one left in this family, and he would kill himself immediately." Iverson visited Freeman in prison in 1996. When he found that Freeman's clothes and shoes were in tatters, Iverson immediately took them off.

Take off your basketball shoes and hand them to Freeman.

That day, the first thing Iverson did when he walked home barefoot was to hug his mother and cry.

When Iverson recalled his childhood, he said: "When I came home, there was no electricity, no food, sometimes no water, sometimes there was water, but never hot water. The room always smelled of rot, and the walls were so damp that they became moldy.

But I don’t think it’s hell. As long as I see my mother walking over with a smile, I believe heaven is just like that.” - Most NBA players are in a similar situation to Iverson. For them, the only bargaining chip to escape from the bottom is.

Only God gave them basketball talent.

Thank God, mother and Tony, they made Iverson "the answer". Annie was definitely the first person to discover Iverson's basketball talent. She always said when Iverson tried to back down: "You have to give everything for basketball, this is

The only opportunity that can change the status quo of your life." This sentence played a crucial role in Iverson's subsequent career. The thin Iverson told himself when facing all the strong men in the NBA: "This guy.

Trying to take away everything I have now, trying to throw me back into that house built on a sewer pipe." This always made him fight with anger.

At the age of 10, Iverson's favorite sport was American football. He even thought he was a bit "sissy" until one day when he came home from school, Annie gave him a pair of Jordan basketball shoes that he had exchanged for half a year's savings.

Tell him: "Today you go to play basketball." At that time, Iverson felt that the world had collapsed. He cried loudly, but with his mother's insistence, he came to the basketball court, where he found his comrades on the American football team.

, gradually, he began to learn to enjoy this new sport.

Iverson never had an idol or role model other than his mother and an older child named Tony Clark.

Clark was 7 years older than Iverson, and he always encouraged Iverson: "You can become a great person, and you can beat any opponent on the basketball court.