Kyrie Irving or Allen Iverson: Who is the better player? | Stephen A’s World

social media has been on fire lately on a subject that i just had to weigh in on because it's near and dear to my heart is kyrie irving better than the answer himself allen iverson at this point in their careers an interesting question but we need to go to the tape to really make a conclusion i bring you a new segment to stephen a's world old school versus new school allen iverson versus kyrie irving first stop y'all remember the crossover the greats 1997 a young allen officer crosses over the great michael jordan and hits the jumper rover mj look at that crossover right there head had almost twisted mj's ankles let's look at that again look at alan obviously crossover i was at that game 1997. michael jordan comes into the house into the city of brotherly love and allen iverson's show to miss a new day but here's kyrie irving and the celtics facing lebron and the cavs in boston kyrie crosses lebron and hits a jumper in his face look at that crossover behind the back bam lebron's right there kyrie pulls up right baseline money that was special to see no doubt about that kyrie that's right that's right next up above the rim iverson and the 76 is facing the toronto raptors absent put back a duck over marcus camby remember that now marcus didn't see him he didn't know any better but alan obviously look at the hops right there on the shoulders of marcus camby the number the former number two overall pick out of umass but he wasn't number one like a.i was out of georgetown now here is kyrie irving giving the ball by horford scott's sky's over one gortat for the wizards see that not that good top was much of a jumper but still nobody expected kyrie irving to do that he did that we like that one too next up circus shots iverson facing off against vince carter's new jersey nets either drives in and it's a crazy floater over carter and gets the and one look at that right there by that time iverson was a denver nugget not the same as when he was in philly but still has some skills no question about that acrobatic shot we understand that it was beautiful improvisational right there give ai credit for that here's kyrie irving look at this right here kyrie in the cash 2015 eastern conference semifinals versus the chicago bulls look at kyrie shakes jimmy butler and paul gassol then finishes at the hoop with an up and under layup look at this nasty nasty kyrie something special nobody can even think about denying that last of the clutch moments game one of the 2001 nba finals i was in attendance for that too 76's versus lakers obviously crosses over ty lue drops the jumper finishes with 48 steps over ty lue we all remember that moment don't we how can we not forget the philadelphia 76ers won that game they would lose the next four and we knew they would lose the next four that's what shaq that was shaq and this prawn and kobe on the come up i mean come on now sixes didn't really have a chance because all they had was iverson on the offensive side of the ball but that's neither here nor there kyrie 2016 nba finals game seven versus cash warriors rather a minute to go game tied at 89 kyrie sizes up steph curry hits the three with steph curry in his face drills it to essentially seal the deal game seven cleveland overcomes 3-1 deficit cleveland wins the series and delivered and lebron delivers a championship to the cleveland cavaliers a 52-year drought for the entire city of cleveland in any sport that was special here's the bottom line y'all who's better it's very simple you can look at it one of two ways if your talking skill is nothing to talk about here kyrie irving is a better ball handler kyrie irving finished just as good at the bats at the basket he's a better outside shooter his handle is nasty nasty he's a better shooter from the field he's a better shooter from the three-point range he's a better shooter from the free-throw line even though alan iverson career-wise averaged four more points a game than kyrie irving he also averaged four more shots so and nobody is about to refute kyrie's greatness he's that nasty that spectacular here's the problem though was kyrie as reliable as allen iverson did allen obviously never have the teammates that kyrie irving had love all of those brothers eric snow aaron mckee george lynch baby tumble theo ratliff and the crew even larry hughes and others the list goes on and on none of them was lebron james they're not kevin durant or james harden now hey i didn't have that to work with ai also did something kyrie irving has never done in his career ai played every game of one season all 82. kyrie has never done that kyrie misses a lot of action so again the best ability is availability who you're going to rely on when it really really counts it's a question you know my answer it's gonna always be the answer because he wanted to ball no matter what that means i knew you'd be there [Music] that matters to me but nobody's more skilled than kyrie irving that's my answer that's all i got to say anything else i plead the fifth thanks for watching espn on youtube for live streaming sports and premium content subscribe to espn plus

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Length: 5min 47sec (347 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 24 2021