{"id":200007,"date":"2025-07-28T22:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/200007\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T22:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T22:30:15","slug":"allen-iverson-attends-shai-gilgeous-alexanders-youth-basketball-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/200007\/","title":{"rendered":"Allen Iverson attends Shai Gilgeous-Alexander&#8217;s youth basketball camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the driest part of the NBA calendar, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander joins the long list of players who&#8217;ve returned home for the next couple of months. The <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/oklahoma-city-thunder\/25\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Oklahoma City Thunder;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a> will kick off training camp in two months to defend their NBA championship.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been quite the year for Gilgeous-Alexander. He won about every individual award imaginable. The 27-year-old captured the MVP, Conference Finals MVP and NBA Finals MVP. He also capped off one of the greatest seasons ever with a ring.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>After Gilgeous-Alexander cemented himself as one of the NBA&#8217;s top faces, he traveled to Toronto recently to host his annual youth basketball camp. Most players across the league participate in this activity during the offseason in their hometowns.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Gilgeous-Alexander, Allen Iverson was also in attendance. The Hall-of-Famer had a huge influence on NBA players who grew up in the 2000s, like Gilgeous-Alexander. At his peak, Iverson was a one-time MVP winner who averaged 30-plus points. He led the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/philadelphia-76ers\/20\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Philadelphia 76ers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Philadelphia 76ers<\/a> to an NBA Finals appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Gilgeous-Alexander has previously talked ad nauseam about his affinity for Iverson. It&#8217;s easy to see why. Both have similar builds and score in similar ways. What Gilgeous-Alexander means to kids today is what Iverson meant to the previous generation of fans.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on OKC Thunder Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/okcthunderwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/thunder\/2025\/07\/28\/allen-iverson-attends-shai-gilgeous-alexanders-youth-basketball-camp\/85413460007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Allen Iverson attends Shai Gilgeous-Alexander&#039;s youth basketball camp;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Allen Iverson attends Shai Gilgeous-Alexander&#8217;s youth basketball camp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the driest part of the NBA calendar, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander joins the long list of players who&#8217;ve returned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3783],"tags":[6170,7,5917,623,6,3220,310,475,179,3966,3965,207,209,312,680,16972],"class_list":{"0":"post-200007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-oklahoma-city-thunder","8":"tag-allen-iverson","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-finals-mvp","11":"tag-gilgeous-alexander","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-championship","14":"tag-oklahoma","15":"tag-oklahoma-city","16":"tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","17":"tag-oklahomacity","18":"tag-oklahomacitythunder","19":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","20":"tag-shai-gilgeous-alexander","21":"tag-thunder","22":"tag-toronto","23":"tag-youth-basketball-camp"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114933230925671282","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}