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Camera IconAllen Iverson and Bryce Cotton Credit: Supplied<\/p>\nBryce Cotton has finally met his boyhood hero Allen Iverson and the NBA legend had a word of advice for the former Perth Wildcats champion.<\/p>\n
Cotton has had this meeting circled in his calendar ever since Iverson was announced as a HoopsFest drawcard, with the 11-time NBA All-Star being his childhood hero.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was excited,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI didn\u2019t believe it at first. I wanted to wait a few more weeks to be sure he was actually coming.<\/p>\n
\u201cEveryone knows how I feel about him, so it\u2019ll be really cool to meet him in person.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pair finally met in Perth on Saturday, with Iverson having one piece of advice for Cotton ahead of Adelaide\u2019s game on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a good thing I don\u2019t have to tell you nothing to keep going, the only advice I have for you is to enjoy the moment,\u201d Iverson said.<\/p>\n
Camera IconAllen Iverson and Bryce Cotton Credit: Supplied<\/p>\n
\u201cDon\u2019t take it for granted because it goes by so fast, I don\u2019t see where that time went.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe ups and downs all that does is prepare you for the rest of you life in different ways<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be the five times MVP, I don\u2019t care if your in the YMCA, bruh, you\u2019re making it do what it do.<\/p>\n
\u201cMeeting you is everything that I wanted to do with my career; to get a chance to give your stories to people is everything.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cotton told Iverson that meeting him is a dream come true, having looked up to him since the fourth grade.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a full circle moment, to finally meet you, it\u2019s been a long time coming, and I\u2019m definitely grateful for this<\/p>\n
\u201cAnything you did we were trying to copy it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The former Wildcats star turned 36er also hinted he has not plans of stepping away from the court anytime soon.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m trying to make this ride last as long as possible because when this ball runs out of air I want to have a lot of stories to tell.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bryce Cotton has finally met his boyhood hero Allen Iverson and the NBA legend had a word of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419107,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,726,590,15057,588,85],"class_list":["post-419106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-nba","tag-nbl","tag-sport","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419106","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=419106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419106\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}