Former Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers General Manager Billy King recently appeared on The Vertical Podcast with Adrian Wojnarowski. King, who managed the Sixers when they had Allen Iverson, said that Iverson approved several trades other than the one that sent him to the Denver Nuggets in 2007. Transcribed by Thomas Duffy of Bleacher Report:
“He gave me some teams,” King said on Adrian Wojnarowski’s The Vertical Podcast with Woj. “Denver was one of them. The Clippers were one, I think. There was another one—Minnesota, to go play with KG.”
The Kevin Garnett-Iverson pairing never came to be, as the Sixers eventually sent The Answer to the Nuggets for Andre Miller, Joe Smith and two 2007 first-round picks.
Obviously, the Allen Iverson to Minnesota trade never materialized. It’s fun to imagine, though. Iverson was one of the most fun-to-watch players ever, with his lightning speed and insane handle. Garnett was the first player to really combine the size of a center with the skills and mobility of a guard. Iverson never had a chance to play with a player of Garnett’s caliber. Could the one-two punch of Iverson and Garnett have brought a championship to Minnesota? It’s certainly possible. The downside of this trade (to me as a Boston fan, anyway) is that Garnett, with Iverson on his team, probably never would have been traded to the Celtics, and the Celts’ big-three/big-four era never would have occurred.
