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Now We Know How NBA Basketball Superstar Allen Iverson Managed To Go Broke
Business Insider ^ | 12/10/2012 | Mandi Woodruff

Posted on 12/10/2012 11:33:21 AM PST by SeekAndFind

It's been less than a year since we learned former NBA star Allen Iverson was broke, despite a $150 million career.

Now we know why.

TMZ has obtained court documents from Iverson's ongoing divorce proceedings that clearly show a man drowning in debt.

Though he still earns $750,000 per year, Iverson is bleeding an estimated $360,000 each month.

About a third of his debt is owed to creditors –– his bank account was seized last year when he couldn't come up with $860,000 he owed to a jeweler –– and another chunk goes to his mortgages.

But there are a few creature comforts, too, "like $10,000/month on clothes, $10,000/month on grocery/house items, $1,000/month on dry cleaning, $5,000/month on entertainment, $5,000/month on restaurants," according to TMZ.

On top of that, his $4.5 million Atlanta mansion is in foreclosure. At least he can drive to and from court in style –– Iverson reportedly kept his Maybach, which he paid off before all of the money drama.

He's not the first NBA multi-millionaire star who has fallen from grace.

(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Sports
KEYWORDS: alleniverson; bankruptcy; basketball; insanity; nba
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

“impulse control” is old white people racist talk


41 posted on 12/10/2012 2:04:21 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: CrazyIvan
He could have cut the time needed to go broke in half.

Or a boat.

Buddy of mine has one. Says that next time, he's going to just dig a hole in his back yard and throw money into it...would be faster and cheaper.

42 posted on 12/10/2012 2:05:08 PM PST by wbill
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To: wbill
he's going to just dig a hole in his back yard and throw money into it...

also known as a pool.

43 posted on 12/10/2012 2:08:43 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Looting the future to bribe the present)
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To: SeekAndFind
he couldn't come up with $860,000 he owed to a jeweler ––

A normal, fiscally sane older person could just about retire on that amount--or at least invest it wisely.

AI--- Absolute Ignoramus--but oh well.

44 posted on 12/10/2012 2:19:51 PM PST by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: SeekAndFind

             

45 posted on 12/10/2012 2:25:51 PM PST by tomkat
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To: pgkdan

AI was released from Prison in Va. via the Governor’s pardon. He was in Georgetown within days on a full ride. never attended anything remotely near a class. Left school early to make the big bucks. Several arrests and many more arrests were “bought off”. His Posse pulled guns on another players Posse while at a 76ers practice. All should have gone to prison. He gets what he deserves. Nothing!


46 posted on 12/10/2012 2:28:51 PM PST by DrDude (Governor of the 57th State)
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To: SeekAndFind

He’s still a 1 percenter.
Go get ‘em Baraq!


47 posted on 12/10/2012 2:29:32 PM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's economic policy: trickle up poverty)
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To: wbill

“Or a boat”. You got that one right. I live just a few miles from the Mississippi within sight of one of the main routes to a major boat ramp. I wish I had a fraction of the money I see going by on the weekend. I strap my kayak on top of the Jeep and go the other direction.


48 posted on 12/10/2012 2:41:41 PM PST by CrazyIvan (Obama's birth certificate was found stapled to Soros's receipt.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

At least he paid off the car.
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You can sleep in your car ,, you can’t drive the house.


49 posted on 12/10/2012 2:50:52 PM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: Neidermeyer

You can also,be buried in your car, which looks to be why he bought it.


50 posted on 12/10/2012 2:57:20 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: Wingy
How much did he pay the “artist” for all those tats?

Ha, that's what I was thinking. I figure about $300 a pop.

51 posted on 12/10/2012 2:59:07 PM PST by The Citizen Soldier (Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everyone stands around reloading.)
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To: The Citizen Soldier

I have a customer, who is in the midst, of getting a multi-colored dragon on his whole arem. His is costing about $3500 CAN.


52 posted on 12/10/2012 3:06:05 PM PST by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults.)
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To: GeronL

You mean that “impulse control” that allowed white people to build America?


53 posted on 12/10/2012 3:11:04 PM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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