{"id":4171,"date":"2016-06-07T09:04:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:04:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/07\/15-years-after-allen-iverson-stepped-over-him-tyronn-lues-nightmare-continues\/"},"modified":"2016-06-07T09:04:32","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:04:32","slug":"15-years-after-allen-iverson-stepped-over-him-tyronn-lues-nightmare-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/07\/15-years-after-allen-iverson-stepped-over-him-tyronn-lues-nightmare-continues\/","title":{"rendered":"15 years after Allen Iverson stepped over him, Tyronn Lue&#039;s nightmare continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f108421%2fiversonlue\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/v9E1CSzvTy0_XYUOuYkH1C1TIrI=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F108421%2FIversonLue.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=15+years+after+Allen+Iverson+stepped+over+him%2C+Tyronn+Lue%27s+nightmare+continues&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F06%2Ftyronn-lue-allen-iverson-step-over%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F06%2Ftyronn-lue-allen-iverson-step-over%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue woke up Monday morning with his team in a 2-0 <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/06\/curry-lebron-nba-finals-vine-baseball\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">NBA Finals<\/a> hole. The Cavs were whooped by a combined 48 points in those two games, and they&#8217;ve now lost to Golden State seven straight times going back to last season&#8217;s NBA Finals.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s a rough Monday morning for Lue \u2014 but only half the story for the rest of us fans.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Fifteen years ago to the day, Lue was on the receiving end of one the most iconic \u2014 and most humiliating \u2014 moments in modern NBA Finals history. Let&#8217;s take a walk down memory lane.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SEE ALSO: <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/04\/muhammad-ali-dies\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Muhammad Ali will always be an American icon<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>It was the 2001 NBA Finals \u2014 Game 1, to be precise, on June 6. Lue was a role player for the Los Angeles Lakers, led by Shaquille O&#8217;Neal and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2015\/11\/29\/kobe-bryant-high-school-teammates\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Kobe Bryant<\/a>. The Lakers were matched up against Allen Iverson&#8217;s Philadelphia 76ers. Poor Lue was frequently given the thankless task of guarding Iverson \u2014 and that&#8217;s where we begin. <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/06\/tyronn-lue-allen-iverson-step-over\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/nba-finals\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Nba Finals<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/allen-iverson\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Allen Iverson<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/nba\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Nba<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/sports\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Sports<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/CB_4i4XbV3w\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Cavaliers coach Tyronn Lue woke up Monday morning with his team in a 2-0 NBA Finals hole. The Cavs were whooped by a combined 48 points in those two games, and they&#8217;ve now lost to Golden State seven straight &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/07\/15-years-after-allen-iverson-stepped-over-him-tyronn-lues-nightmare-continues\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3232,739,738,3231,740],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other","tag-allen-iverson","tag-entertainment","tag-nba","tag-nba-finals","tag-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}