Iverson needs to stop acting like a selfish brat

AI Needs to Stop Acting Like an ASS

Some of Allen Iverson's recent decisions in judgment have been perplexing to say the least. First of all, Iverson signed a one year, $3 million dollar contract with Memphis. Despite the fact that only four teams finished with worse records than Memphis (24-58) last year, Iverson said "he felt they were commited to developing a winner". Well, Allen, thats not exactly a ringing endorsement about the team. I mean, what team isn't commited to developing a winner?

Just a few games into this season, Iverson has already complained publicly about his role coming off the Grizzlies bench. Not exactly the type of veteran leadership skills Grizzlies coaches were hoping for out of the gate from AI, who has five years more playing experience than any other player on the Memphis roster.

Now it seems that Iverson can't even stay consistent with the reasoning behind his recent leave of absence.  According to ESPN, Iverson has asked for a leave of absence from Memphis so he can tend to a  family issue.  Yahoo sports is saying that Iverson is leaving to clear his head and has been arguing with Memphis head coach Lionel Hollins about his lack of playing time. I dont want to make assumptions out of Iverson's personal life, but I can make assumptions about his professional life, and that is the guy should do everything that Hollins asks of him.

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Attendance dropping, but sport ticket prices aren't

With the way the economy is at the present moment, you are seeing many people give up their season tickets to their favorite sports teams.   The Detroit Pistons reported that over half of their season ticket holders decided not to renew for the upcoming season. It seems to me that for the most part, teams aren't being proactive in finding ways to get more people at their games, and are staying stagnant with their ticket prices.   I have no problem watching more games at home these days.
I mean HDTV is such a better product than what we had just a few years ago.   Sports franchises need to make more of a concerted effort to try and show people that they realize that in today's world, its not as
economically feasible to go to a sporting event, and are willing to work with the fans.   For instance, the teams need to have agreements set it place with advertisers (ex: food and drink companies) or other retailers
(ex: sports apparel shops) where if people buy items from these
companies, that they get free or reduced prices for tickets.   The people who run these teams know that they make an unbelieveably good return on investment on concessions during a game, so the more people they have at their games the more moolah they make.   Have you seen a reduction in prices for sporting events where you live?
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