No Crossover: The Trial of Allen Iverson

I watched this one even before I thought about starting this project, for multiple reasons.

Like any other basketball fiend, I'm a huge fan of director Steve James' Hoop Dreams, the award-winning documentary about two high school basketball players in Chicago, William Gates and Arthur Agee (note: no Google needed), and they respective journeys through their senior year and beyond.

Secondly, I'm an Allen Iverson fan; have been from Day One — Georgetown Day One, not NBA Day One either.

Lastly, stories like this intrigue me — and often end up annoying me — so when I got the box set back at the end of October, No Crossover was one of the first films that hit my DVD player.

Before he was "The Answer," Iverson was "Bubba Chuck," a two-sport star at Bethel High School in Hampton, Virginia. Before he was a polarizing figure in the NBA, he was high school kid who almost never made it to college, let alone the pros, as a result of the bowling alley brawl that serves as the focus of this excellent film.