{"id":62467,"date":"2016-03-02T17:13:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-02T15:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoops.co.il\/?p=62467"},"modified":"2016-03-03T03:59:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-03T01:59:07","slug":"%d7%a8%d7%90%d7%99%d7%95%d7%9f-%d7%9e%d7%a2%d7%a0%d7%99%d7%99%d7%9f-%d7%91%d7%99%d7%95%d7%aa%d7%a8-%d7%a2%d7%9d-%d7%90%d7%9c%d7%9f-%d7%90%d7%99%d7%99%d7%91%d7%a8%d7%a1%d7%95%d7%9f-%d7%91%d7%90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoops.co.il\/?p=62467","title":{"rendered":"\u05e8\u05d0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df (\u05de\u05e2\u05e0\u05d9\u05d9\u05df \u05d1\u05d9\u05d5\u05ea\u05e8!) \u05e2\u05dd \u05d0\u05dc\u05df \u05d0\u05d9\u05d9\u05d1\u05e8\u05e1\u05d5\u05df (\u05d1\u05d0\u05e0\u05d2\u05dc\u05d9\u05ea \u05e7\u05dc\u05d4 \u05de\u05d0\u05d3)\/ \u05ea\u05de\u05d5\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea \u05d7\u05d3\u05e9\u05d5\u05ea"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/images.complex.com\/complex\/image\/upload\/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1100\/allen-iverson-wide-feature-7_ovlu3j.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"531\" height=\"355\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1><strong>\u05e8\u05d0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df \u05e2\u05dd \u05d0\u05dc\u05df \u05d0\u05d9\u05d9\u05d1\u05e8\u05e1\u05d5\u05df<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Talking NBA style, playing rappers in HORSE, and dropping racks at TGI Friday's with the pound-for-pound G.O.A.T.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong> By Gerald Flores<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Editor-in-Chief, Sole Collecto<\/strong>r<br \/>\n<strong> Photography By Nathan Perkel<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> 22 hours ago<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">\u05d4\u05e7\u05d3\u05de\u05d4<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>\u201cTypical Allen Iverson,\u201d my friend says with a sigh as he shakes his head over a plate of chicken wings. I shrug. We\u2019re in a dimly-lit dive bar in Philadelphia and A.I. has just canceled on our scheduled interview.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>While my friend\u2014who worked with Iverson on a marketing campaign for a Philly-based retailer two years ago\u2014helps me drown my sorrows over the wasted day with pints of beer and baskets of chicken, he recants his personal experiences dealing with The Answer. Some of his anecdotes are outright unbelievable. Others aren\u2019t surprising at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I\u2019d never met Iverson before. Like most casual basketball fans, all I knew about him was what I grew up seeing on television: The ankle-breaking crossover that made the G.O.A.T. momentarily look like a goat. The Reebok commercial where he rapped with Jadakiss over a Trackmasters beat. And, of course, the diatribe about practice. (Iverson later explained that his rant was sparked by the death of his close friend and the fact that he was embroiled in trade talks at the time.)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>But opposite those highlight memories are also the tales that my friend and other writers who\u2019ve dealt with Iverson have to tell. It kind of comes with the territory for a rapper to possibly show up four hours late, semi-drunk, with an unexpectedly large entourage. An elite pro athlete whose livelihood mostly depends on being physically disciplined and showing up on time to, well, practice? Not as common.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Iverson\u2019s reputation precedes him. To me, Iverson didn\u2019t just bring hip-hop to the NBA, he embodied the cross section of the lifestyle we grew up seeing in late \u201890s music videos and sports. Iverson was as much of an ambassador for hip-hop as Shirt Kings, except his spray can and air brush was a durag, arms inked with tattoos, and a hair-trigger shooter's mentality both on the court and with the press.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cThat dude battled every night and he had that flair and that creativity,\u201d reigning NBA MVP Steph Curry told me during NBA All-Star Weekend, as he raised his right arm to mimic Allen Iverson\u2019s signature crossover. \u201cI loved watching him play. He was a competitor and fighter.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Players who shared the court with Iverson in his prime tend to view him differently than how he\u2019s historically been portrayed in the media.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt was hard for me to play against this guy,\u201d said Shaquille O\u2019Neal, whose Lakers went head-to-head against Iverson\u2019s Sixers in the 2001 NBA Finals. \u201cUsually, I needed to make something up about a person in my mind to play against them. But, I couldn\u2019t do that with [Iverson] because I liked him too much.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I finally catch up with the elusive Answer in Charlotte, N.C.\u2014where he now resides\u2014during a scheduled photo shoot for Finish Line. The event is for the relaunch of his first signature sneaker\u2014the Reebok Question. The brand, which Iverson has a lifetime endorsement deal with, is dropping 20 different versions of the shoe this year to mark the Question's 20th anniversary.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The call-time for today's shoot is scheduled for 2:00 PM and Iverson walks through the doors at 2:04 PM, catching the camera crew, who expected delays, totally off guard. Iverson makes a beeline for his mark on set and skips out on the Bojangles chicken and Coronas that the company prepared for him and his crew. On this day, The Answer is all about business.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In between takes he peruses through all of the sneakers when one in particular catches his eye\u2014\u200ba yellow and blue colorway that is a totem to his rebellious ways in the early \u201800s. The quick and dirty version of the story is that Iverson was meant to wear the yellow sneaker in his first All-Star game, but refused because he was getting roasted in the locker room by fellow All-Stars for having to take the the court in such a brightly-colored shoe (This was the year 2000 when players actually matched the colors of their sneakers to their uniform). Despite pleas at the time from his manager at Reebok, who hyped up the sneaker with retailers across the country and even enlisted Iverson\u2019s own mom to plead Reebok\u2019s case for him to wear the shoe, the player was not about to put his pride on the line.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cI probably cost Reebok a lot of money that day,\u201d Iverson says with a laugh as he picks up the yellow sneaker. \u201cI was not having it.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Such is the gift and the curse of Allen Iverson. Adored by millions for living life like an open book while nevertheless struggling to balance the volatility of that life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I was doing some research and read this legendary story that involved you, Ma$e, and $10K.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> What you saying? What supposedly happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>You guys put a bet on a one-on-one game up to 20. You spotted Ma$e 19 points and the ball five times straight. He somehow cheated for that one point and you refused to pay up.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> That was my partner, so I\u2019m pretty sure that did happen.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Have a lot of rappers over your career tried to come at you on the basketball court?<\/strong><br \/>\nN<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>ot one-on-one. Me and Nelly played H.O.R.S.E. He\u2019s a friend of mine. I remember one night we went to Jermaine Dupri\u2019s studio and I had been drinking before I got there. We went into the gym and he beat my ass. Then he went on 106 and Park and bragged about it. So the next time we played, I made sure that I came prepared. I hadn\u2019t drunk anything and beat his ass. And during that game he was saying, \u201cYou need to get him a couple drinks.\u201d I told him, \u201cNah. Not today. You ain\u2019t going to brag on this on<\/strong><\/span>e.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you ever played ball with Post Malone?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> I never got an opportunity to meet him. I want to meet him. He did an awesome job. I was just telling my friend on the way over here that when we get in the car, we hear [\u201cWhite Iverson\u201d] at least like 10 times a day. It definitely gets a lot of record play around here. And it\u2019s just an honor for him to make a song with my name in i<\/strong>t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">A<\/span>lso heard you got a thing for TGI Friday\u2019s?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Absolutely.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>What is it about that place?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> Just that it\u2019s not too uppity. It\u2019s not bougie. It\u2019s a down to Earth restaurant. I like doing things like that. Unless I\u2019m like taking my girl out. I\u2019ll take her to the real expensive, you know, exotic restaurants. Other than that, when I\u2019m hanging with my friends, we just like to go to a spot where we can chill out. And we like the food there, so it\u2019s always been love at Friday\u2019s.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI j<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>ust felt the NBA was just picking on me. \u2026 The NBA can\u2019t dress no grown man.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/images.complex.com\/complex\/image\/upload\/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1100\/allen-iverson-wide-feature-4_zflfva.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"542\" height=\"362\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>How did you first find that place?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> It was in Philly and I stayed right down the street from it. It was somewhere I could grab me something to eat after practice and go home. After games I used to go there and get me something to eat and go about my business. That was my stomping grounds in Philadelphia.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>I <strong>heard the locals called it Club Fridays whenever you were there.<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> <strong> Yeah. I\u2019ll always be attached to it because I remember a lot of the people in Philadelphia were real when they were greeting me at Friday\u2019s. They always made sure I was comfortable. By me going there, it ended up being the No. 4 Friday\u2019s in the country. So, I did a lot for them too.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>T<strong>hey probably owe you a check.<\/strong><br \/>\n[Laughs.] <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Nah. I\u2019m good<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>W<strong>hat was your go-to meal at Friday\u2019s?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Philly cheese wrap.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>O<strong>K let's talk basketball. Watching the game?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>All the time.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>W<strong>hat player now reminds you the most of yourself?<\/strong><br \/>\n[Long pause] <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Westbrook<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why him?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> Just his relentlessness, his heart, his energy, and the way he plays hard every night. That\u2019s what he reminds me of. I wouldn\u2019t say his game per se, but the way he\u2019s always in attack mode and his effort remind me of myself.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Speaking of Westbrook, he\u2019s also made a name for himself with what he wears off the court. Your name is always linked to the changing of the NBA dress code. Do you think it should be changed again?<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> I don\u2019t have an opinion because it doesn\u2019t affect me. But, the way that I feel about the dress code is, if they had a problem with what I was wearing, I don\u2019t know how they don\u2019t have a problem with what these guys are wearing. Good gracious. I ain\u2019t ever see nothing like it. I\u2019m sitting at home like they used to bother me about what I was wearing and these guys come in here\u2026. [Shakes head.] You know what I\u2019m saying?<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">B<strong>ad feeling about NBA?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Definitely<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> It\u2019s funny to me. But, I just felt the NBA was just picking on me. That\u2019s all. Other guys in the league at the time dressed like me. Guys is supposed to be able to be original and dress like how they want to dress. The NBA can\u2019t dress no grown ma<\/strong>n<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>S<strong>o you\u2019re for no dress code change at all?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/images.complex.com\/complex\/image\/upload\/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1100\/allen-iverson-wide-feature-5_qv8hth.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"363\" \/><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> I have no problem with none of the things that players wear today. I wouldn\u2019t wear it. I don\u2019t have any problems with what these guys wear because they got their own style and their own originality. That\u2019s the way it\u2019s supposed to be, man. Everybody is their own person. I don\u2019t have a problem with what these guys doing and I think it would be sad and unfair if they were to try to change the dress code again.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>W<strong>hat\u2019s your take on these jerseys with the sleeves on them?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> I like them. I like the style. I would wear them. With me, I never liked my sleeves loose. That\u2019s why when I was in college, I used to cut my sleeves off. If they were snug, then I\u2019m cool with it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>T<strong>wenty years ago, you went number one in the draft, which is arguably one of the best of all time..<\/strong>.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> It is the best. No question about it. Ask anybody that knows about basketball and anybody that has a basketball mind and there\u2019s no question. There\u2019s too many Hall of Famers all throughout it.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Y<strong>ou could\u2019ve probably made it in the NFL too. Have you ever thought of what would\u2019ve happened if you went that way instead?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> I have no idea. I would imagine it would\u2019ve been the same result as far as basketball. I felt like I was better at football than I am in basketball. So that\u2019s what I would\u2019ve worked hard to be\u2014great in football.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Kobe, who was drafted with you, is finishing up his last year. What advice would you give a player like him who\u2019s walking away from<\/strong> t<strong>he game<\/strong>?<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> Someone like him doesn\u2019t need too much advice. He\u2019s going to be just good and if not better in whatever else he decides to do after basketball. So, there\u2019s no advice to give someone with ambition like that. My whole thing is with Kobe, he gives a lot of time to the game. He\u2019s going to be able to take a lot of that time and dedicate it more to his wife and his kids more than he could before. That\u2019s what he has to look forward to. He\u2019s going to experience what I\u2019m<\/strong><\/span> <span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">able to experience right now: being able to spend as much time I can with my family\u2014time I didn\u2019t have befor<\/span>e.<\/p>\n<p>Y<strong>ou mentioned all of the future Hall of Famers in that \u201896 NBA draft. Are you going to be one of them?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> I don\u2019t know. Hopefully. If God feels like it\u2019s my time, then yeah. But if that\u2019s not something that He wants for me, then I respect that. He\u2019s done so much for me. I mean, I\u2019ve done a lot in this league. I\u2019ve accomplished so many things in basketball. I financially secured my kids\u2019 life and their future. I\u2019m just happy. I\u2019m just blessed. So anything that I\u2019m not awarded doesn\u2019t matter because I\u2019ve been rewarded enough in this lifetime. The way that I believe in Him, He\u2019ll continue to bless me in many ways. It doesn\u2019t have to be anything as far as basketball or anything like that. I just want him to bless me and my family with health, strength, and help me with making the right decisions in my life.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>W<strong>hat do people misunderstand about you the most?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> Shit. We don\u2019t have enough time. [Laughs.] Honestly, it\u2019s that I\u2019m just like everyone else. I\u2019m human and I make mistakes. I don\u2019t always make the right choices when it comes to certain situations. But, I\u2019m a father and I try to be the best example that I can be.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>\u201cI took the ass whooping in the media so that everyone else could be themselves.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>D<span style=\"color: #000000;\">o you have any regrets?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> The only regret that I have is not buying into everything that Larry Brown was giving to me. I wasn\u2019t accepting of the gift when I should\u2019ve [been]. A lot more positive things would\u2019ve happened if I had accepted the gift earlier. I\u2019m glad I did accept it, eventually. Better late than never.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>W<strong>ould you have eventually won a championship if things shook out differently?<\/strong><br \/>\nI<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> don\u2019t lose sleep over not winning a championship. I hold my head high and understand it just wasn\u2019t meant for me.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>D<strong>o you still have a relationship with Larry Brown now?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Absolutely<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>H<strong>ow often do you guys talk?<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> It\u2019s not all the time. It can go to every other day to every other next week. Then it can go from every other two months. And then three months or something like that. But if we need each other, we know where to find each other. Trust m<\/span>e.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>W<strong>hat do you guys talk about?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> There\u2019s nothing to talk about when it comes to basketball on my side. [Laughs.] Sometimes he wants me to try to help out a player or give advice on a player.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>H<strong>ow many offers are you getting from international leagues nowadays?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>None because I put it out there that I\u2019m done. My playing days are over. I\u2019m not looking back.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>W<strong>ould you ever see yourself working in the NBA again?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/images.complex.com\/complex\/image\/upload\/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1100\/allen-iverson-wide-feature-6_lddvol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"361\" \/><br \/>\n<strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> Not as a coach. I don\u2019t ever think I\u2019ll coach. Anything else to help an organization, I could see myself doing. I could see myself helping a little league team, high school teams, or stuff like that. But not any coaching on a professional level. Maybe in a front office. Anything where I can help, I would definitely be up to that.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>W<strong>hat\u2019s your take on the state of the 76ers right now?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> They\u2019re young. It\u2019s coming, but they\u2019re just young. You got to give them some time. It\u2019s not going to happen overnight. They\u2019re the youngest team in the league, so you can\u2019t expect magic to happen overnight. They need those veteran guys in there\u2014three or four guys that know how to do it. Put together with that young talent and they can only get better.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do a lot of these young guys ask you for advice?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>No<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A<strong>re you in touch with any players? Who do you talk to most often?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>I would say Lou Williams and Michael Carter-Williams. That\u2019s probably it. I love J.R [Smith]. I love Carmelo. I love K.D. Those are my guys. I love those guys.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>D<strong>escribe a normal day for you now?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> I usually take the kids to school, come back home, do some work in my office, watch TV, pick them up from school, bring them home, maybe go hang out with my friends for a little while, and bring it in.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A<strong>re you strictly family man since you left the NBA?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> Yea. That and I have even more time with my friends. I\u2019m not away from the fun part of my life. It\u2019s going to be like that until I die. I\u2019ll always continue to have fun with my friends. But I\u2019m going to spend as much time with my family and help my girl with my kids as much as I can.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>W<strong>hat do you do for fun nowadays?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> We play cards. We like to shoot pool at my crib. I like to take my kids to the movies. We do a lot of movies. I love having my homeboys come to the crib and we all watch the games on the movie theater. That\u2019s the fun part of my life now.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you go to church?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>T<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>he Lord Jesus Christ is my Savior\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/images.complex.com\/complex\/image\/upload\/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1100\/allen-iverson-wide-feature-8_tppxtt.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"534\" height=\"357\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Do you miss being around the game at all?<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"article__copy clearfix ng-scope\">\n<section id=\"scene_11\" class=\"featured-story__scene\">Ev<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>erything except the media aspect about it. [<em>Laughs.<\/em>] I took the ass whooping in the media so that everyone else could be themselves.<\/strong><\/span><strong>Would you say that was your biggest contribution to the game?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> That\u2019s part of it. Everything that I brought to the game. My energy. My effort. My style. My look. My gift. My mistakes. The positive things that I did. The negative things I did. Because all of it was a learning experience for the other guys to come after me. I just gave the game everything that I had to give.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><strong>How hard was it for you to walk away?<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong> It wasn\u2019t hard for me because I knew it was time. I was ready and I never thought I would get to the point where I would be. I couldn\u2019t believe it was over, but I was happy with my decision.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section id=\"scene_12\" class=\"featured-story__scene\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/images.complex.com\/complex\/image\/upload\/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_1100\/allen-iverson-wide-feature-9_toliqb.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"541\" height=\"362\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"end-bug\"><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u05e8\u05d0\u05d9\u05d5\u05df \u05e2\u05dd \u05d0\u05dc\u05df \u05d0\u05d9\u05d9\u05d1\u05e8\u05e1\u05d5\u05df &nbsp; Talking NBA style, playing rappers in HORSE, and dropping racks at TGI Friday's with the pound-for-pound G.O.A.T. 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