Dave D’Alessandro

These two columns, by NBA Insiders Dave D’Alessandro and Sean Deveney, first appeared less than a year apart in The Sporting News, and reflect the mercurial nature of Philadelphia icon Allen Iverson. Shortly before D’Alessandro’s column, Iverson was voted TSN’s 2000-01 NBA Player of the Year by his peers and chosen the league MVP. Almost a year to the day after that honor, Iverson was in the middle of a(nother) tete-a-tete with Sixers coach Larry Brown about … PRACTICE.

12h ago Written By Dave D’Alessandro Share (Getty Images) https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/sporting_news/8a/36/gary-payton-of-the-sonics_1op64b61qxwq11tr9wrfu33a2b.jpg?t=169348670&w=500&quality=80 The NBA is celebrating players from the NBA 75 list almost daily from now until the end of the season. Today's honoree is Gary Payton, the perennial All-Star, primarily with the Seattle SuperSonic. This column, by NBA Insider Dave D’Alessandro, appeared in the Feb.

By Dave D’Alessandro Star-Ledger Editorial Board If politics is the art of the impossible, what Rush Holt did over 16 years in the House of Representatives was a masterpiece of the art.