Win AI’s signed shoe!

By the way, I DO deserve the shoe. I’m not feeling this whole “I don’t deserve this shoe…” trend.

I deserve this shoe because im the only guy here in Singapore who knows who he is and how great he is… all they know here is Kobe, Lebron,Yao, and well Sun Yue. make things short I am the biggest Allen Iverson Fan here if not the Biggest Basketball Fan In the WHOLE COUNTRY OF SINGAPORE!

AI has to be one of the best little guards to ever play the game….It’s interesting too how he and Melo finally chopped their braids not too long after being featured in your magazine.

You see I don’t get why people are coming on here and saying they dont deserve it then giving a bunch of reasons why they do. But Im not like that Im here to write what it say to write in the criteria. Why Do I deserve this shoe? That’s simple I AM THE BIGGEST ALLEN IVERSON FAN in THE WORLD. This is a fact. Why am I so confident. Ill tell you why. I have love for the man. Whats love? Well love isn’t owning every single Allen Iverson jersey in road and home colors and love isn’t owning 12/13 AI sneakers, Love isn’t Copying his crossover and doing his moves in my backyard. And no love is not putting up posters of only AI in your room, and Love is not staying up late when your in grade 1 to watch the NBA finals games. These my friend are just the basics for the biggest fan in the world like me. These are nothing to me these are things Ive done and these aren’t even close to the reasons why I deserve this, These are just the basics man these reasons are like having strong legs before you can dunk, there like having strong wrists before you can shoot a jumpshot, these are like having sick handles before you can break a guys ankles. I’ll tell you what’s love. Love is stealing your mom’s money in grade 7 sneaking out of the house so you can get those A.I. sneakers and the jeresey from the mall and telling her you won it off of SLAMonline.com after hiding it in your room for a week. Love is crying for weeks after the 2001 finals. Love is skipping highschool games to see this man play on TV knowing it is one of the rare times you see it on normal cable in Canada the whole season. Love is getting suspended from school because you tell your Canadian teacher to SUCK A D*CK when he says Steve Nash is better then A.I. Love is buying every Slam with A.I. on the cover twice each time so you can frame one and have the other one to read. Love is breaking up with your girlfriend because she is tired of you admiring A.I. more then her and instead watching A.I. drop 51 at the age of 32 on the Laker’s then going out on the date shes been talking about for weeks. Love is crying more then A.I. when he cries in the 03 playoffs against Indiana. Love is crying when he doesn’t make the playoffs, Love is voting with different e-mail adresses everyday for the ASG game 10 times for A.I. so I could have a major role in him starting in the ASG game in the one year where he might not make it. (cont below)

I’ve gone through alot because of A.I. and just like he out of all the players and athletes in the world deserves the ring the most I think I deserve this shoe the most.

I think the guy who commented before me just one the whole thing i aint even riting no more.

In many ways the shoe represents a part of Iverson: a nod to the past while boldly looking into the future. Unique, unorthodox, and classic. You put AI in any situation and he asserts himself immediately. The man carried (and still carries) Reebok like he has done with the other 4 players on the court. His ice cold grill stares down concepts of aging and decline in the face and proudly gives them the one finger salute. So as 3 morphs into 1 and contemplates the future, the shoe serves a reminder of the principles he still embodies to this day. Fresh yet classic, standard but bold, one over many. His game, legacy, and heart shall be cherished for the past and future. If I receive this sole, it will be respected as such.

FINALLY I GOT IT TO GET ON THE SITE.

Flash back to ’01. I was just shy of my 10th birthday, and Allen Iverson had led the Sixers to the finals. Before the series started, I bet anyone I could find in my grade 4 class that AI and his team were coming out of this series with a ring. I wore my blue Iverson alternate jersey every single day (so sick at the time), and took off my regular shoes to wear my Answer 4′s as soon as I got into the school halls. Two weeks later I was down forty bucks. At that age, $40 was like a small fortune, and I begged and pleaded my mom for any extra cash. I even mowed my lawn 3 times in the span of a week, hoping to get my usual $5 a cut. But this was June, and there was no grass growing. Now I’m 17, and as I write this, I look around my room, walls overflowed with SlamUps, but something catches my eye. A little gap in my shelves of basketball souvenir’s and memorabilia. Ticket stubs from my first NBA game (Grizzlies vs Jazz) in ’96, my white adidas pro-model that I got Jeff Green to sign when they played in a pre-season game in Vancouver in ’07, and a few other sentimental things I’ve acquired over the years. This shoe would look sweet with the rest of all that. And I wouldn’t mind showing it to a few of those ex-classmates. You won the bet, and your perennial powerhouses got a ring, but I’ve got a signed shoe from Allen Iverson…Silenced.

why should I win these awesome Shoe. I think I should get it because I play so much like Allen Iverson my coach started calling me AI, I also live in Australia meaning I hardly ever get to see him play because my parents won’t buy Cable TV, I have the 76er’s boxset and have watched Gm 1 2001 Finals about 300 times because it is the only footage that I have of him. I read his biography “Only the strong Survie” constantly as well. The only basketball shoes I wear are AI’s and my walls are coverd in pictures of Him. I mean literally covered you cannot see the walls because there are so many posters of him. If it were not for AI I would never even of heard about basketball because in 5th grade my friend mention him as one of his idols. i asked him who is Allen Iverson and he told me to google him, i did and insantly he became my idol as well. On top of all this I absolutly no chance of buying the shoe i am trying to win because i don’t live anywhere near Detroit and winning this shoe would mean the world to me, as buying Allen Iverson stuuf over here in Adelaide is nearly impossible because the only NBA stuff they sell are Kobe or LeBron jerseys.To find anything else is basically imposible. Please Slam If I win this shoe it will make me happiest person on the face of the earth.

Sh*t I think that pardeep dude just won the contest

Oh, my bad. I thought YOU were 32. Nevermind.

ok this has been on my mind the last 3 days on whether I could win this contest or not. I have been on this site 24/7 except for at school and I think I need to mention a couple more things. Um like I said, Mr. Osborne, I’m only 15 years old(just turned 15 last week) I come from a small suburban area about an hour from Philly. Its a skater town. Not to many Basketball fans. So when I wear Iverson stuff around town I get looks, like “where’s your skateboard?”. There are a few necessities needed in my life: Family, food, and Allen Iverson. Now I may not have 12 out of the 13 pairs of Iverson shoes(only have the Answer III’s,IV’s, X’s, and XI’s), I may not be able to have thousands of Allen Iverson items or memorabilia, I may not steal stuff to get Iverson things, but I do, in my heart have a true, strong love for this basketball player. I know more about Allen Iverson than half the kids in my school know about a next test their taking. Allen means the world to me. He has helped me become the player, and person I am today. I have followed Allen since the time I opened my eyes. When he won football and basketball title at Bethel high school(i wasnt born yet) I was cheering him on in the womb. I am just that BIG of a fan. I was 2 when David Stern walked up to the podium with his 90′s mustache in 1996, and said those glorious words “With the 1st pick in the 1996 NBA draft, the Philadelphia 76ers select ALLEN IVERSON from Georgetown University..” From that moment on something inside me had my eyes just glued onto that #3 on the sixers. When I actually understood the game, i couldnt miss a sixers game. That was a sin for me. I couldnt miss Allen Iverson crssing over Jordan at the Spectrum, I couldn’t miss Allen picking the pockets of the Orlando Magic in the 2000 playoffs, getting a playoff record for most steals in a playoff game, I couldnt miss him drop 54 on the Raptors in the 2001 Eastern conference quaterfinals. I couldnt miss him at the podium summer of ’02, wearing his red sox hat,”Man we in here talking about PRACTICE, not a game, not a game, not a game, PRACTICE…” I was only a 1st grader when they reached the Finals in 2001. I made sure that I would stay up until the final buzzer to watch Allen play. I got shivers every time that man would touch the ball. When he took the baseline, took a crossover, then shot a J and stepped over Tyron Lue, I woke everybody up with my loud screams. I am just a DIE HARD FAN. I remember for Christmas when I was a like 7 or 8, my parents got me The Answer DVD. Let me tell you I was the happiest kid in the world. I watched that DVD over and over and over and over until the DVD player broke. I knew every single stat, bio note and word that was said in that DVD. I deserve this shoe. In 3rd grade, I brought in a Sports Illustrated Magazine, with Iverson on the front cover holding flowers. I got in trouble because he had his shirt off, and I was told to put it away. ( I go to a Catholic School, it gets kinda strict.) I didnt care, I made sure to read every single word in that article. I deserve this shoe. Every time the school would allow us students to wear regular clothes, instead of our uniform,I made sure to wear something Iverson. I had a few Iverson shirts. I wore those shirts until it looked like I was wearing a belly shirt. I deserve this shoe. I live, breath, and die for Allen Iverson. When Allen won the two MVP awards in 2001, one for the ASG one for the League, I got choked up. When Iverson would get knocked down or fouled in a game, it felt like I was watching my best friend getting beat up. Finally in ’03, I was able to attend a Sixers game against Atlanta. It was one of the happiest times in my life. I made all these signs for Allen, hoping he would notice them. If I was just able to yell out to him, i wouldve been happy. I stood behind the railing where the sixers locker room was 2 hours before the game started just waiting for allen to emerge from the locker room. Unfortunatley, me being only 9, I was pushed to the back and never got a glimpse. Allen is my hero. When Allen scored a career high 60 points on the Magic in 05-06, I got cried of joy. Every saturday, I was allowed to go to this sports card shop and buy a couple cards. Right now at 15, I have over 1000 cards total. About half of those cards are Iverson cards. I would just look in awe at the picture of him. I am also very into drawing, mostly people. I started drawing when I was about 5 or 6, just like little scribbles. I found one of my old pictures the other day, and it was a picture of a man wearing cornrows, with a number 3 on his shirt. I have been drawing Allen since I was 6. Of course now at 15 I have more realistic drawings of him, but in one of my drawing books which has 100 pages, every single paper is a drawing of Allen. I remember in 5th grade we were supposed to do poems about something and I had no problem because I knew who I was going to write about. When they were hung up outside our room, you saw this one paper with Iverson pictures just covered all over the whole paper. Yup, that was mine. When allen got traded in 2006, I didnt know what to do but cry. I felt like I had just lost my best friend. I couldnt sleep. I mean Allen wasnt going to be wearing a Sixers jersey anymore. I couldnt believe it. It was hard to get over. When I bugged my parents to get me league pass, I made sure to watch the nuggets. It was wierd for me. Ima sixers guy. I did wat I always do, just watch Iverson. Watch him move through screens, make picks, pass, sit on the bench during timeouts, just kept my eyes on him. I was hated in the house because I hogged the television most nights. Whatever though. Its worth it. And when he came back to philly last March, that was an emotional night for me. All of good days came back in my mind. I’ve tried many of times, to purchase an autograph of Iversons. Mostly of eBay. Unfortunately I was either outbid or I won but the guy never sent it. This would mean so much to me, I cant even express how happy I would be if I won this contest. I would trade all my iverson things in order to get this. I could honestly right a whole book, as big as the Bible, about how much I love Allen Iverson. Unfortunately I dont think a website page is big enough for me to express my true love for this guy. I am probably one of his biggest fans. He is just a big part in my life, Bubbachuck. Mr. Osborne, please, just give my entry a serious look. This would be the greatest thing in the world. I could go on and on and on and on about why I should deserve this. I see all the other fans for Lebron and Kobe. Allen is so unique than all the other players. He actually has a story behind his amazing game on the on the court. Theres more that meets the eye. All the obstacles Allen overcame, he is a true warrior and hero in my eyes. At the age of 33 and still exciting fans including me, with his many moves and baskets, I still make sure to sit down and watch him, wearing a number 1 now, and with the cornrows(by the way, still look good, AI), Allen always will have a special part in my heart. Out of all the other thousands of fans for Iverson, whether in the U.S., Canada, China, wherever, I believe I am the Biggest fan of Iverson’s. Just a small town suburban kid outside philly that prays to the dear Lord above that he is able to win this contest. To show the rest of the world how much respect I have for Allen Ezail Iverson. Wow this took me 1 hour. I hope this is deserving enough. Oh how much I want this.

if the comment above this wins it is a true symbol that quantity is far more relevant than quality.

SLAM reader from issue 1 here. A.I. is basketball. And so am I. That’s why I deserve the kicks. I’ve followed Iverson since the Georgetown days. Seeing that little guy fly through the air and throwdown w/authority, I knew he was going to be special. I patented my game after his as a young-man. The little crossovers in the lane into a quick jumpshot, the head fake, behind the back dribble into teardrop and all that. The shoe would be a good reminder of why I love Slam, why I love AI and why I love basketball. Because they are all the best.

WHo won the Damani shoes?