The Greatest Thing About Allen Iverson Will Always Be The Fact That He Hated Packing So Much He Just Bought New Clothes At Every Away Game

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In honor of AI getting elected into the Basketball Hall of Fame, I wanted to remind everyone of my favorite Allen Iverson story. There was a lot of amazing about Allen Iverson. He was a 5’10” (listed as 6, but c’mon) dude who was a 4x NBA scoring champion, a cornrowed guy cool enough to make bench riding, CYO kids (me) wear sleeves on their arm, and a man who practically single-handedly made the NBA institute a dress code for adult professional athletes.

But all of that pales in comparison to the fact that AI had such disdain for packing and carrying luggage that he would buy an entirely new wardrobe every time the plane touched down. He didn’t buy new clothes for a road trip, no, no, no. He bought new clothes at each stop. Five game road trip? Five shopping sprees. Five trips to the tall tee and jersey store.

That’s living life lavishly. Show up to the airport every day like a terrorist: no luggage, just a one way ticket and no earthly belongings in your possession. Yes, it’s also a great way to go broke and spend all of your 155 million in NBA earnings. But, ask anyone with anything in their bank account, money is endless. I don’t care if it’s Friday and you’ve got 100 bucks and payday isn’t until Wednesday: spend the money you have now, the rest will figure itself out. That’s a little finance lesson from Feitelberg and Allen Iverson, two guys who know what they’re talking about.