[外電] Iverson on postseason roster, won't …
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Iverson on postseason roster, won't play
Updated: April 16, 2009, 3:03 AM ET
By Marc Stein / ESPN.com
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Allen Iverson's name will appear on the Detroit Pistons' playoff roster ...
but that's only because league rules mandate Iverson's inclusion.
The NBA requires the 16 playoff teams to submit a roster including no less
than 13 players by 3 p.m. Thursday. The Pistons must add Iverson because they
only have 13 players under contract, two short of the league's permitted
roster maximum of 15 players.
But Pistons president Joe Dumars reiterated Wednesday via e-mail that
Iverson's leave from the team -- granted on April 3 after Dumars and Iverson
met to address the 33-year-old's increasing frustration with a reserve role
-- will remain in effect for the duration of Detroit's stay in the playoffs.
Iverson becomes a free agent July 1 and is not expected back in Detroit.
The Pistons, seeded eighth in the East, meet the 66-win Cleveland Cavaliers
in the first round. Teams are required to name 12 active players per game
from the playoff roster, meaning that Iverson will be listed as Detroit's
lone inactive player in every game after leaving the team last week.
Iverson missed 16 games between Feb. 27 and March 28 after complaining about
back pain. He returned for three games starting March 29 but averaged just
7.7 points in 18.7 minutes off the Pistons' bench. He responded to an April 1
loss at New Jersey by telling reporters that he'd "rather retire before I do
this again."
"I can't be effective playing this way," Iverson said that night. "I'm not
used to it. It's tough for me both mentally and physically."
Iverson wound up averaging just 17.4 points in 54 games for the Pistons after
his trade from Denver a week into the season, marking the first time in
Iverson's 13-season career that he failed to score in the 20s.
The Pistons, though, traded Iverson more for his $20.8 million expiring
contract and the minutes second-year guard Rodney Stuckey inherited from the
outgoing Chauncey Billups than his ability to help Detroit remain among the
East/s elite, although Dumars was initially hopeful that the gamble could
work for a season after coveting Iverson for years and nearly acquiring him
from Philadelphia in 2000.
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