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Tonight the Memphis Grizzlies will visit the NBA Champion Los Angeles Lakers and Allen Iverson will be coming off of the bench.
The future Hall-of-Famer wasted no time in expressing displeasure with his reserve role to anyone who would listen.
"I had no problems with my hamstring. I had a problem with my butt sitting on that bench for so long," Iverson told the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
"No. I'm not a bench player. I'm not a sixth man. Look at my resume and that'll show I'm not a sixth man. I don't think it has anything to do with me being selfish. It's just who I am. I don't want to change what gave me all the success that I've had since I've been in this league. I'm not a sixth man. And that's that."
This sounds all too familiar.
In April Iverson came off the bench for the Detroit Pistons after recovering from an injury and promptly started complaining.
"I'd rather retire before I do this again [coming off the bench], I can't be effective playing this way," Iverson said.
The Pistons mysteriously shut Iverson down for the season just a few days later.
The question remains, what were the Grizzlies thinking when they signed Allen Iverson? Did they expect A.I. to be OK with being a bench player? The season is not even a month old and this guy is complaining. Grizzlies Head Coach Lionel Hollins is frustrated.
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