Jalen Brunson: “We used to cut my mom’s socks and make them as shooting sleeves because of Allen Iverson… he’s one of the GOATs for sure.”
AI made every kid want to be him.
Dude was huge during his early sixers years man.
The finger sleeves too
They call them fingers, but I’ve never seen them fing
oh! there they go!
Bro almost never made it to league on some BS corrupt cop type too insane
Every college football and basketball team was recruiting him before that BS too.
He’s responsible for every teenager adding arm sleeves to their custom players in any basketball game back then. He’s so cool.
I still add shooter sleeves whenever I can
I didn’t even watch basketball back then and I wore his shoes.
That fact that JB is taller is crazy lol.
Iverson was truly ridiculous for his height.
Brunson also probably like thirty pounds heavier.
And half of that is head weight.
Bro built like a lollipop
Trae?
candied apple
Yea Jalen is wearing 10+ fitted hats.
Big Brain Brunson, shout out Perk!
Brunson’s head alone is at least 20 pounds heavier
We posted the same joke at the same time, lol.
Damn, look at his head compared to AI’s head lol. Never realized it’s that huge
The basketball world was lucky Iverson wasn’t tall. I bet if he was 6’6 he’d still dribble the same way he just got a feel for the ball.
What we got instead was a 6-9 Allen Iverson with the size of Karl Malone…and the fuckery is still going on to this day
might have stayed with FB if he was that tall.
And the fact that he used to get up like this
Tremendous moxie for his size
I don’t think people understand the impact Iverson had.
Anyone that understands the game, does. Especially the ones that witness that era of basketball. People who dont are the ones that think basketball was invented after the 2010s
After 3 years in the NBA LeBron James invented basketball.
lol but he did reinvent it. His ball sharing, bbiq and exceptional personal conduct in the Kobe Bryant and JailBlazers era is under appreciated just because he didn’t instantly win in Basketball Siberia.
Anybody that was at least in middle school at the time knows
I was a new immigrant to Canada in 2002. Vince Carter got me into basketball and Iverson was the reason I embraced the culture. He really helped me find a spot to fit in at school.
He is single handedly responsible for the NBA instituting a dress code lol
Arm sleeves, tattoo arm sleeves and cornrows.
His high volume low percentage shot diet, fall away jumpers and weak defense are pretty much all gone from the league. Iverson was great, and did an amazing performance to get to the Finals once, but his impact is almost all cultural.
Man really grew up just like the rest of us
Yup, cutting mom’s socks to make armbands, forgetting to take out the chicken out of the freezer…
the terror of hearing the front door / car and remembering you didn’t take it out
wipes his snot on AI’s hand
I couldn’t focus on anything else
lol I noticed that too
Yeah that’s gross ngl.
You could say that Brunson gave Iverson a souvenir to bring home with him.
Watched the recent Allen Iverson doc. I have some added respect for him.
Also used a towel as a headband to complete the look.
“Jalen, you BETTER not have cut up my goddamn socks again” - his mom, probably
Iverson was so big back in the day. It’s criminal how he managed his money and career. It would have been so different
YOU EVER HAD TO CUT THE BOTTOM OFF A 2 LITER BOTTLE AND MAKE A BOWL OUT IT
And when she ran out they all looked like Rocky Horror
Why’s it got to be her socks? 😂
probably cause theyre cheap & look like a shooting sleeves?
What’s wrong with his socks though!?
he only rocked ankle socks just not long enough
/s
Too congealed
perpetually moist
Momma had them knee socks.
His dad was a pro ball player. Is he trying to gain street cred by pretending to be poor growing up?
Kids like to make their own thing, even if they have money. Cutting some socks to playball is not that complex bro.
Didn’t know you had to be poor to look like Allen Iverson…..
If ur kid tried to make something DIY for fun, would you criticize him for pretending to be poor lol
Nah, they weren’t selling that stuff at first. AI got that shit made custom for dealing with bursitis, iirc
yall really say stupid shit on this app 🤣🤣 bro what made you come to that conclusion bro?? kids can’t just have fun doing stuff creative in their own right ?
Jalen’s dad was in the NBA. Pretty sure he could afford multiple AI Jerseys, headbands and sleeves.
they didn’t sell that stuff (finger sleeves; modern looking half arm sleeve, etc.), at first. allen iverson had some custom shit initially.
Or… Or… Kids being kids and they like being creative like that. He clearly wasn’t trying to imply they were poor or something.
They didn’t sell that stuff to kids, it was only available to players at first
Now every kid is geared up beyond belief for their 6th grade middle school game
Also if you were a kid wearing stuff like that you were roasted, especially if you have no game
Maybe he could afford it, but wouldn’t give it to the boys. Maybe the boys got them but wanted the mom socks version. Maybe he even got them team versions but they were not like Iverson’s.
True, but kids will still do funny things like that even if they don’t literally need to.
Some kids will get a $100 toy and spend more time playing with the box it came in than the toy itself.