While the upcoming Michael Jordan documentary and the Chicago Bulls of the 1990s are on the minds of most sports fans, the hiatus has given sports fans and sports media more time to reminisce on teams that we loved but may have forgotten. And LeBron James’ son, Bronny James Jr., gave a shout out to one of those teams forgotten to the NBA past on Thursday.
Bronny gave a shout out to his Dad’s buddy Carmelo Anthony and Allen Iverson, who were teammates together on the Denver Nuggets in the late 2000s for the better part of two seasons. During their lone full season together in Denver, Iverson averaged over 26.4 points per game while Anthony averaged 25 points per game. They were one of the highest-scoring duos of the last 20 years. The fine folks at SLAM gave them a shoutout on Instagram, which was reposted by Bronny.
Unfortunately for the Nuggets, their cult status as a high-scoring duo was the high water mark for the Anthony-Iverson duo. They were swept in the first round of the 2008 NBA playoffs by Kobe Bryant, Pau Gasol, and the Los Angeles Lakers, who would eventually win the Western Conference championship that season. Early in the next season, they would trade Iverson to the Detroit Pistons for Chauncey Billups and eventually meet the Lakers in the 2009 playoffs, but in the Western Conference Finals.
