Overview
- Iverson told the Joe & Jada Podcast that the late NBA commissioner read explicit lines from his 2000 track “40 Bars,” leaving him acutely embarrassed.
- He recalled Stern first questioning his choice to wear a Cleveland Indians jersey before pulling out the printed lyrics.
- Iverson pursued music under the alias Jewelz, with an album initially titled Non-Fiction and later Misunderstood, which was shelved by late 2001 after backlash.
- Coverage frames the episode within long-running tensions over league image and player expression that later included the NBA’s 2005 dress code.
- The story coincides with Iverson’s October releases: his Misunderstood memoir and the Allen Iv3rson documentary on Amazon Prime Video.