What are some of the lesser known inspirational stories of nba players (2)?

Ann Iverson, 15, was selected for the Mission High School girls' basketball team in 1975, but was accidentally told during a routine physical that she was pregnant. On June 7, Ann Iverson gave birth to Allen Ezell Iverson. Soon after Iverson was born, Ann took him back to Hartford to meet his father, but found that Bruton's violent, drug-filled environment was not conducive to his development, and Iverson and his mother left Bruton at age 3. Soon Ann met a new boyfriend, Michael Freeman, with whom she moved into a cheap house in Steward Gardens. The apartment was on the far east side of a small Virginia town called Newster, but it was even more hostile than Hartford, with drug deals and gunfights in broad daylight. Although Ann worked around the world to keep herself alive, the Iverson family's home was miserable. There was no electricity, no water, no food. The sewer pipes were constantly broken, flooding the house, and the two sisters wore overshoes all day. In 1978, Ann received a $3,818 settlement from the hospital to her mother, and later, Ann and Freeman had two more daughters, Brandi, born in 1979, and Liza, born in 1991. (Liza's illness was the reason Iverson decided to join the NBA in 1996.) In 1984, Allen. Iverson's mother, Allah, took him to the basketball court to practice. Iverson did not like basketball, but he saw football players playing basketball in the basketball court, and Iverson began to love basketball. [3] In 1988, Allen. Allen Iverson's adoptive father, Freeman, was fired after a car accident. He really wanted to support his family, but he was in and out of prison too often. In 1991, Freeman was caught with a drug overdose and sentenced to 22 months in prison, with another 23 months added for violating his parole. In 1990, Iverson entered Bayser High School and became the absolute core of the school's football and basketball teams, but that year Iverson's best friend Clark, who often encouraged and cared for Iverson, was murdered by his girlfriend. [2] In the summer of 1991, Iverson led the varsity football team to the semifinals of the U.S. Under-17 league. In 1992, Iverson led the school football team to a state championship, was named the Most Valuable Player of the Virginia Class AAA football tournament and made the All-NBA team. Three days later, Iverson was back on the court, scoring 37 points in his first high school game. 1992-93: He averaged 31.6 points, 8.7 rebounds and 9.2 assists per game. In 1993, Iverson led the Holy Land High School football team to the Virginia High School championship as quarterback, and he also led the high school basketball team to the same honor. On February 14 of that year, Iverson and three friends got into an argument with a group of white teenagers at the Beltwire bowling Alley, which quickly escalated into a fight involving more than 50 people. More than 20 people were seriously injured in the fight. The district court's verdict was swift: All four were sentenced to 15 years in prison, and Iverson was sentenced to five years for leading the trouble. In December 1993, after a tireless Supreme Court victory with the help of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), Iverson served only four months in prison before being released on parole. Iverson graduated from Holy Land High School in 1994, Iverson attended the Nike training camp to win the MVP. Because Iverson's prison reputation left him with little room to choose a college out of high school, many elite schools didn't consider him. Iverson's mother, Anne, approached Georgetown coach John Thompson asking him to give Iverson a chance, and he agreed to let her join the Georgetown basketball team.