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RESEARCH SOURCE (Title, author, link if available): http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2016/04/crossover-appeal/476910/

NOTES FROM SOURCE: Copy/paste or paraphrase relevant details from the source. If you copy/paste be sure you include quotation marks!

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• “But what he did to that defender, Michael Jordan, the greatest player of all time, made the box score an afterthought. He had done the impossible. He had made God bleed.”
• “By the time Iverson was drafted in 1996, the short shorts and white socks of basketball past had been replaced"

BLOG POST BODY PARAGRAPHS:  (Broken into easy to read paragraphs, formatting font to make it easier to follow main ideas, etc.)

INTRODUCTION PARAGRAPH:

• Opening lead sentence to get audience’s attention:
• Author’s overall argument in 1-2 sentences:
• Who/what is the source & why is it reliable

2-3 SMALL BODY PARAGRAPHS (Organizes and analyzes evidence from the source about author’s argument). See ideas for organizing your blog post here.  Allen Iverson changed the culture of basketball tremendously because he brought hip-hop to basketball by wearing hip-hop clothing and having cornrows and tattoos. He also created a move that is known to every basketball fan to be the “Iverson Crossover”.  He performed this move on the greatest basketball player of all time Michael Jordan and it worked.

Allen Iverson was also famously known for his interview saying “You talkin bout practice not a game practice”. But throughout his career he has won a MVP Award, 4 scoring titles, 11 All Star games, and 1 NBA Finals appearance.