Another 50-point game, another loss Allen Iverson used to receive all sorts of negative press because he'd score 40 or more points and his team would lose. There's definitely a theme when it comes to one guy (post-Michael, of course) scoring all the points. And the stats showed that when Iverson did it, his team wasn't winning. On Sunday, Iverson did it again, but it doesn't appear that the theme of big points equals loss is consistent with him anymore. Iverson scored 51 in the loss to Toronto, but overall Philly has won 10 of 13 the last two seasons when he scores more than 40. That goes against other recent stats, though. This season five players have scored 50 or more points a total of seven times, and the teams' record in that time is a poor 2-5. Iverson and Antawn Jamison have topped the half-century mark twice, and split those games. Tony Delk, Chris Webber and Kobe Bryant all lost when they did it. But Kobe did it the same night Jamison did. And Delk's night, to us at least, was so far out of the ordinary for him that we refuse to concede that it's part of a consistent theme. In terms of Sunday's game, however, we're here to say that the 76ers emphatically did not lose because Iverson hogged the ball. The Sixers lost because a guy named Vince Carter, who hasn't topped 50 yet this year, was also great, and VC had more help around him. Alvin Williams raining jumpers from the sky in OT is not Iverson's fault. Overall, Iverson has now scored 50 or more points on four occasions in his career, which ain't bad. Since the 1984-85 season, Michael Jordan topped that mark 30 times, and Iverson's closing in on second. Dominique Wilkins (talk about having no help) topped the mark seven times, and born scorer Bernard King did it five times. Next comes Iverson and Karl Malone at four. Among active guys, only Shaquille O'Neal and David Robinson have done it three times.		Author ------   Source ESPN   Return to Articles