Allen Iverson earned about $200,000,000 in salary and endorsements. Reebok reportedly put $32,000,000 in a trust he can't touch until he turns 55. His wife divorced him, then took him back.
In the video below, Iverson explains how a kid who got 15 years for a fight became a millionaire with no blueprint, and what he finally gave up to keep his family.
At 17 he was locked up after a bowling alley brawl. "No guns, no knives, no chains, nothing." He asked his grandmother why God would do this to him. She told him never to question God. He says he never did again.
At 21 he was rich. "I never had nobody in my family that ever had money." Nobody to tell him what to do with it.
Then the drinking. He says he used to pray through hangovers: get me through this and I'll never drink again. Then he would drink again.
About six months before this interview he finally stopped. No AA, no therapy. His wife Tawanna told him it was the first time he actually kept that promise.
"Everything that ever happened with any type of separation had something to do with me." They have been together 35 years.
And Reebok? A lifetime contract, because they stayed loyal to him.
Did Allen Iverson blow his fortune, or did the people who stayed save him?
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