A.I. Regrets Setting World Record For Saying ‘Practice’

At right is the famous Allen Iverson “practice” video, where A.I. responded to the 76ers first-round playoff exit against Boston (the year after going to the NBA Finals) by unleashing a bizarre, awesome, hilarious torrent of the word “practice” and why he didn’t really care about practicing and how hard he works in games, et cetera. On the surface, it makes some sense, although one wonders what kind of player Allen Iverson would have been if he actually did practice.

And, hey, Allen apparently does too! From the Daily News:

“It was just being young and definitely immature. I wish it wouldn’t have ever happened,” he says during an appearance on Fox SportNet’s “Best Damn Sports Show Period.” The interview, which took place Wednesday, will air tonight. “But you learn from experiences like that . . . I think it sent the wrong message, especially to kids. You can’t be a scoring champion and an MVP and an All-Star and all of that without practice . . . I didn’t want kids to get the message that you don’t need to practice because when you’re not practicing, someone else is out there practicing, getting better.”

The DN then lied and said Larry Brown had an “equally memorable” press conference the following day, but nobody remembers that one because Larry Brown is as boring as toast.

Iverson regrets bad talkin’ bout practice, bad talkin’ bout practice [Daily News]
May 31: DJ Jazzy Jeff Releases Greatest Track Ever

We Talkin’ ‘Bout Stoppin’ The Violence, Here

Okay, so a couple of musicians are making a “stop the violence” CD. Whatever. Good, actually. But, uh:

They don’t need to practice because they’ve been living everything they sing, they said.

Yeah. I think it might be better if you practiced. Unless, of course, you’re Allen Iverson.

Local Musicians Cut Anti-Violence Song, Video [NBC 10]

DJ Jazzy Jeff Releases Greatest Track Ever

DJ Jazzy Jeff released his new album last week. It’s full of guest spots — “Prince Paul approach to recording,” Craig Lindsay wrote in PW — and skits and pretty decent beats.

But the best track on the album is no doubt Track 7, “Practice,” featuring J Live. Here is the opening to the song:

It took almost five years, but somebody finally turned that Allen Iverson press conference into the best sample the recording world has ever seen.