22. "I Thought Stack Was There Before AI " In response to In response to 13
>"I'm here right now because of who I am," Stackhouse says, >"not because I've succumbed or had to settle. I've changed my >roles. I understand the importance of having to change roles. >I look at a guy like Allen Iverson. There's no way, from a >talent level or what he's done for the game of basketball, he >shouldn't be on somebody's team right now. But we know why. We >know why." > >Still bringing up AI's name unsolicited. I mean I get that >there's truth to what he's saying but Stack really had no >choice but to settle into role-player-status early. He was >never good enough to really carry a team & had already been >traded a few times. Bottom line is he's never gotten over >being upstaged by AI when he got to Philly and the team >getting better without him. I thought he was there, had a great rookie season and all of a sudden AI gets there and he was forgotten about by the coach/management.
Don't know how far the beef extends though >Entertaining article overall.