The Bounce: Can Pistons and Timberwolves stay alive and force Game 7s?

The Bounce Newsletter | This is The Athletic’s daily NBA newsletter. Sign up here to receive The Bounce directly in your inbox.On this date in 2001, Allen Iverson became the shortest and smallest MVP in NBA history. He was listed at 6 feet and 165 pounds. I don’t love getting into time-travel debates of what players would look like in different eras. But culturally, I wonder what Iverson would have been like in today’s NBA. He was so important to young fans and so influential on society that it’s hard to imagine the same thing today. Regardless, here are some Iverson highlights from his MVP season. The first sequence alone is incredible.Advertisement