INDEPENDENCE, Ohio -- It’s a basketball moment that occurred nearly 15 years ago and remains frozen in time.
There was a little less than a minute left in overtime of Game 1 of the 2001 NBA Finals between the Philadelphia 76ers and Los Angeles Lakers and the league’s reigning MVP was sizing up a little-known reserve guard.
Allen Iverson had the ball in his hands with the Sixers clinging to a two-point lead in L.A. and Tyronn Lue was tasked with trying to stop him to keep the Lakers’ undefeated postseason intact.
What happened next became one of the most recognizable sequences in the history of the sport.