Iverson to miss home debut

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LeBron, Shaq winners

The LeBron and Shaq Show is off and running.

NBA icons, All-Stars and A-plus-list celebrities LeBron James and Shaquille O'Neal made their debut as Cleveland teammates on Tuesday night in the host Cavaliers' 92-87 preseason-opening victory over the Charlotte Bobcats.

The two are hoping to end this city's pro sports championship drought stretching to 1964, and while they are as much as nine months away from accomplishing that goal, it's already clear their pairing will be fun to watch.

Not the Answer: Grizzlies part ways with Iverson

Allen Iverson's short tenure in Memphis is already over, as the Grizzlies and the future Hall of Fame guard have mutually agreed to terminate his one-year contract with the club.

Iverson, who signed with Memphis as a free agent in September, missed the first three games of the season with a hamstring injury before returning. He came off the bench in each of his three appearances, prompting the nine-time All-Star to express his unhappiness with the situation.

He was given a leave of absence from the team on November 7 and has been away from the Grizzlies since that time.

Iverson will start again

Like many of you, I have a series of "go-to" movies in my DVD library.

Titles like The Godfather, Goodfellas and The Departed are sprinkled in with my true love, comedies like Anchorman, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Knocked Up.

Of course, no matter how many times I watch one of my favorites, they always end the same way.

Questions surround The Answer

They're both guys with Carolina ties and each supervised Allen Iverson over parts of his first 12 NBA seasons.

Former Philadelphia 76ers general manager Billy King warns that Iverson can be stubborn and self-absorbed, and doubts he'd change that as a Charlotte Bobcat.

Denver Nuggets coach George Karl is more complimentary. He acknowledges Iverson puts up some ill-advised shots and lacks ideal size for a shooting guard. But Karl says Iverson's respect for Bobcats coach Larry Brown could make this notion work out.

Sixers meet with Iverson

The Philadelphia 76ers met with Allen Iverson on Monday regarding the star guard's possible return to the team.

Sixers general manager Ed Stefanski posted a release on the team's Web site, saying the meeting lasted about two hours. At the meeting were Iverson, his agent Leon Rose and his personal manager Gary Moore, along with a host of Sixers personnel: Stefanski, senior vice president/assistant GM Tony DiLeo, head coach Eddie Jordan and assistant coach Aaron McKie.

However, Stefanski did not divulge in detail what was talked about and added that both parties remain non-committal regarding a final decision. He said the team will continue to discuss Iverson's potential return internally.