Everyone’s Suing Allen Iverson These Days

Although he’s been out of the city since being traded last winter, it’s still nice to see what Allen Iverson is up to nowadays. (Remember him? #1 pick? Led the team to the 2001 Finals? Come on, that wasn’t that long ago! The city went nuts for it! Sigh.)

Anyway, apparently since he left town he’s being sued by everyone who’s been in a nightclub with him. As usual, the alleged problem isn’t A.I. himself, but his goofy entourage, who without Jerry Stackhouse’s posse to rumble with anymore is sometimes down to causing other trouble.

He’s being sued for $20 million in federal civil court over an alleged beating his posse delivered to two men who sat in his reserved seats at a nightclub in D.C. The plaintiffs even wanted 50 Cent to testify because he’s familiar with Iverson’s security crew. The judge denied this, natch, since 50 Cent wasn’t at the nightclub, nor does he live in the DC area.

However, the court may be entertained a bit, since the plaintiffs’ attorneys are asking for the right to show an episode of Punk’d.

It seems the clip shows Iverson being told that he can’t get into a nightclub party until the Bush twins leave — totally not true, ha ha, but a typical gag from the VIP practical-joke TV show — and a friend getting up in the bouncer’s face insisting that he has to get his man inside. This is relevant, lawyers say, because it shows the relationship Iverson had with the entourage[.]

Ha ha, that was a great episode of Punk’d. Then Iverson joined up with the Punk’d crew and got to punk Jermaine O’Neal, remember? Man, that was sweet. If I was a judge I’d totally want to watch that episode again.

Oh, and another lawsuit against A.I. is moving forward as well from a 2004 incident. If he loses both lawsuits, I think he’ll be okay, because I hear he has lots of money bagz.

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