After an illustrious NBA career, future Hall of Fame point guard Allen Iverson’s fall from grace continues with the latest news about his wife’s reported restraining order against him.
Despite his willingness to do whatever it would take to get another shot at the NBA, no team has jumped at the chance to sign him. There is no doubt Iverson has the skills, but some say his baggage is not worth what he adds on the court.
As much as NBA teams are accustomed to dealing with troubled players, Allen Iverson, 36, and the mess he has made for himself is a burden no organization wants to shoulder. His wife doesn’t want his burden, either.
According to gossip website TMZ,
Tawanna Iverson just filed legal docs in the couple’s bitter divorce battle—claiming Allen “has engaged in increasingly contemptuous, threatening and disturbing behavior” over the last few months … and she’s afraid things will get worse.
Tawanna is asking for a judge to issue a protective order stat. It’s unclear whether she wants Iverson to stay away physically or just stop harassing her. Tawanna also claims Allen is hiding big money from her—and she wants a judge to stop him.
It’s very hard to distinguish what is mudslinging and what is actual truth in this case, but it is all bad for Iverson’s reputation.
Allen Iverson’s money problems are nothing new, but the destruction of his personal life is something that gets more sad by the day. He is (was) one of the greatest NBA shooters to ever grace the floor.
Iverson, an 11-time All-Star, arrived in Shanghai on Friday as part of an NBA legends tour alongside Dennis Rodman, Clyde Drexler and Shawn Kemp and confirmed he will seek talks with Chinese clubs during the trip. He had a short spell in the Turkish league in 2010 after his return to Philadelphia took a turn for the worse.
Last month, Allen filed documents to dismiss his long-running divorce case. He claimed he and his wife reunited and were still intimate for a 4-month stretch after she refiled to divorce in June last year, making her claim that the relationship was “irretrievably broken” null and void.
