{"id":207475,"date":"2025-10-12T09:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207475\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T09:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T09:04:09","slug":"nba-great-allen-iverson-reveals-he-and-ex-wife-tawanna-are-back-together-as-he-celebrates-six-months-of-sobriety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/207475\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA great Allen Iverson reveals he and ex-wife Tawanna are back together as he celebrates six months of sobriety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not only is Allen Iverson sober, but the NBA<\/a> great known as ‘The Answer’ is also back with his ex-wife, Tawanna.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Stephen A. Smith on ESPN’s First Take<\/a>, the ex-Philadelphia 76ers star discussed his widely publicized struggles since officially retiring in 2013. Iverson said his ‘lowest point’ came when Tawanna left him that same year.<\/p>\n

‘It was self-inflicted, but when Tawanna divorced me, that’s when I knew I hit my lowest point and it was time for some deep, self re-evaluation,’ Iverson told Smith. ‘You know what I mean? [She is] my number one. Obviously we’ve been together over, well, 35 years. If you hang in there that long, it takes a lot to want to go.’<\/p>\n

The worst part, he told Smith, was seeing ‘Iverson vs. Iverson’ on the legal documents.<\/p>\n

‘I had tried everything, nothing was working,’ said Iverson, who is promoting his memoir, Misunderstood. ‘And when I’m sitting in that courtroom, and I usually watch Sixers. vs. Sixers in the scrimmage or Georgetown vs. Georgetown, and I’m sitting there and them tears hit the page and I saw “Iverson vs. Iverson,” I was like oh man, this is the lowest it gets right here.’<\/p>\n

High school sweethearts from their days growing up on the Virginia<\/a> coastline, Iverson and Tawanna married in 2001 and share five children. The two had been off and on since their 2013 divorce, but Iverson said they are firmly together these days.<\/p>\n

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Allen Iverson is seen with ex-wife Tawanna Turner during a 2016 event in New York\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Iverson, <\/p>\n

Iverson, 50, is now six months’ sober and says it’s one of the best decisions of his life<\/p>\n

And Iverson’s sobriety is a major part of that reunion.<\/p>\n

‘I had to change a lot of things,’ Iverson said. ‘What is so crazy about me not drinking anymore, she told me this was the first time that she had ever prayed on it\u2014when I told her I was stopping\u2014because I had before. That was the first time she said she prayed on it, and I was authentic.<\/p>\n

‘I had to convince her that basically this wasn’t the same old me. I expressed to her what she means to me in my life and how pivotal that she is in my growth and my maturation and where I want to go in life. I don’t feel like I’m the same Allen Iverson without her, you know what I mean? She is my life.’<\/p>\n

Iverson also discussed his sobriety during an interview with CBS’s Maurice DuBois<\/a>, saying he has not had a drink in sixth months.<\/p>\n

‘One of my best decisions that I ever made in my life was to stop drinking,’ Iverson told DuBois.<\/p>\n

And asked how he feels since he stopped drinking, Iverson replied: ‘Better than I did when I was doing it.’<\/p>\n

‘When you get drunk, you’re not how you usually are,’ Iverson continued. ‘The more and more I see it on other people, the more and more it makes me happy about the decision. And the more and more I see how the people around me appreciate it, I love it.’<\/p>\n

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Allen Iverson is pictured during his time at Georgetown alongside coach John Thompson<\/p>\n

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Allen Iverson drives on Pacers guard Mark Jackson during the 1999 NBA Playoffs\u00a0<\/p>\n

Iverson didn’t win an NBA or NCAA title, but remains a cultural touchstone for basketball fans of a certain age. Generously listed at 6-feet, 165-pounds, Iverson’s remarkable quickness, ball handling and toughness helped make him the top pick out of Georgetown in the 1996 NBA Draft.<\/p>\n

He would go on to win Rookie of the Year and, in 2001, an MVP award. It was that season that Iverson famously led an overmatched 76ers team into a doomed NBA Finals series with Shaquille O’Neal and Kobe Bryant’s Los Angeles Lakers, but while he never threatened for another title, he remains a legendary figure in both Philadelphia and Washington.<\/p>\n

Off the court, though, Iverson has struggled with legal problems and a 2002 incident in when he was accused of throwing Tawanna out of their home during a domestic dispute. He was also accused of threatening two men with a gun when they asked about her.<\/p>\n

Charges were later dropped.<\/p>\n

Despite his troubles, Iverson was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016.<\/p>\n

‘When I had hard losses, didn’t play well, you know, the media treating me like they did throughout my career, I always came home and forgot about all of that once I saw y’all,’ an emotional Iverson said of his fans at the 2016 induction. ‘So, thanks for being my crutch and I love y’all so much.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not only is Allen Iverson sober, but the NBA great known as ‘The Answer’ is also back with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,100,590,9688,588,85,35235],"class_list":["post-207475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-dailymail","tag-nba","tag-philadelphia-76ers","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-steve-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}