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The telltale gravelly timbre of his tone sounds the same as ever. The cadence of his speech, nouns and adjectives flowing forth in melodic bursts, is mesmerizing as ever. The emotion that leaks out of the occasional cracking of his voice is heartfelt as ever. But the words coming out of the 36-year-old Allen Iverson’s mouth are different than before.
“Not playing this year in the League,” says Iverson from his home in Atlanta, “it humbled me a whole lot. Because I’m a basketball player and I was taken away and not able to play on the biggest stage there is. It had me thinking a lot just about how to handle situations better than I had. I had to learn that this thing can be taken away from you.”
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