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The late Friday rumors of an Allen Iverson splashdown in Philadelphia escalated quickly enough that, according to Comcast SportsNet Philadelphia, 76ers general manager Ed Stefanski and coach Eddie Jordan were engaged in a meeting with Iverson in Dallas as of 3 PM Eastern Monday. (UPDATE: The Sixers confirmed the meeting.)Iverson retired last week after a failed three-game stint with Memphis and a failed attempt to become a New York Knick. That Iverson retired via a statement to Stephen A. Smith seemed to bring on the skepticism; when Smith reported Friday that Iverson would be interested in playing again for the Sixers, The Answer's retirement became a Brett Favre madlib.
As the incisive Matt Watson outlined this weekend, Iverson makes too much sense in Philadelphia. The team is down two guards after watching Andre Miller walk away as a free agent and watching Louis Williams's jaw get busted, an injury which will keep the surprising lead guard out seven more weeks. Jrue Holiday has taken the starting point guard position, but the UCLA product is perhaps the least developed of all the myriad (well, nine, a veritable myriad by NBA standards) rookie PGs. Holiday lacks refinement, but has as much potential (physical and skill-based) as any of them but perhaps Brandon Jennings and Tyreke Evans. Holiday is the future, but he doesn't seem to be at a point at which he can keep the Sixers above water until February.
Enter Iverson, who would immediately add a bombastic scoring dimension the other Sixers (excepting Williams) have struggled with. It will come with drama, but Philadelphia is in such bad shape that drama's a risk that needs to be taken.
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