Why does he wear a sleeve on his right arm? It can’t be a bandage 'cause he’s been wearing it for at least 3 years, and it’s color co-ordinated with the Sixers jerseys. Is it a new form of wristband? It looks too thin to be a brace of any kind.
Plus it looks cool…
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[sup]To cover up some of those toos.[/sup][/ul]
Nah, that’d be Lebron James.
It certainly isn’t to help his diction or annunciation…
No offense, but I think you mean enunciation. Maybe it’s to help Iverson whine better.
I believe the current hip & happening slang for them is tats.
Yeah, that’s the word. Thanks.
Or as Iverson would say, “mumblemumblemumble, you know, mumblemumble…”
Iverson has a problem with the bursar (?) sack and some bone chips in that elbow. He had some surgery, but will always fight the problem.
The sleeve is so sort of pressure garment designed to help the condition.
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[sup]Thanks, I’ll make a note of that.[/sup][/ul]
If that’s true, what’s hip & happening slang is behind the times. “Tats” have been around for yonks.
Late '80’s/early '90’s?
I believe its’ to protect his elbow from further injury, although it’s not a bandage. I think his elbow has been injured several times, so he has a little flexible cast on it to protect it.
I’ve seen a few players wear those sleeves on one of their legs too, most recently T-mac and Steve Francis.
I wonder if AI’s arm-sleeve would provide for an effective ‘sling effect’ whilst taking a shot?
OK, I did a quick Yahoo! on it, and I got this from the Seattle Times, similar to what ** Ice Wolf ** and ** Philster ** mentioned earlier:
“Philadelphia guard Allen Iverson wears a compression sleeve that protects his swollen knee and a sleeve on his right elbow, which helps keep his shooting arm warm and loose.”
Why not decorate the sleeve? All that money spent on tats, and he’s covered it up with a sleeve… plenty of clean space for him to sell advertizing, send shout-outs, or just draw more tattoo’s to see if he likes the design enough to commit to…