SPRINGFIELD, Mass. - In much the same way he always clashed with convention, the orange Hall of Fame blazer Allen Iverson belatedly slipped on Thursday afternoon clashed with his more familiar hip-hop outfit - jeans, black shirt, a Yankees cap and chain.
"Conformation was the medicine most black athletes took once they reached a certain level of success, wealth and fame," Scoop Jackson, the writer and cultural critic, noted in his profile of Iverson that appeared in the program for the 2016 Basketball Hall of Fame Enshrinement Weekend. "[But Iverson was] an unapologetic American superstar that was allergic to conforming.