It's interesting you brought up Allen Iverson being a bad boy.

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Shaquille O'Neal got every first-place vote but one in the 1999-2000 season, when one person cast his ballot for Allen Iverson who finished seventh that year.

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Allen Iverson, the diminutive (6-foot) point guard for the Denver Nuggets, is a quick player who can shoot--skills that might have won him a backup spot on an NBA team.

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He noted how Lin's performance in two unsexy statistical categories two-point field-goal percentage (a barometer of inside scoring ability) and RSB40 (rebounds, steals and blocks per 40 minutes) compared favorably with college numbers put up by marquee NBA guards like Allen Iverson and Gary Payton.

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To put Anthony's late-season scoring into context, only four players over the last 25 years Michael Jordan in 1986-87, David Robinson in 1993-94, Allen Iverson in 1996-97 and Kobe Bryant in 2006-07 have scored more than a third of their team's points in the final 10 games of a season, according to Stats.

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