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GQ Sports went huge–genuine huge–with its inaugural Style Hall Of Fame event where they honored globally-beloved baller Allen Iverson, New York Yankees legend Derek Jeter, and polarizing super star Deion Sanders throughout Super Bowl weekend in Arizona.
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Celebrated for their unique (and disruptive) designs, the famous trio got their fashion flowers as the very first class inducted into GQ’s Sports Style Hall of Fame.
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The event was filled with love, fellowship, and huge hugs from 3 of professional sports’ greatest stars.
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Notable visitors at the event consisted of Chad ‘Ocho Cinco’ Johnson, Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones, Key Glock, Malcolm Jenkins, , Special Projects Editor at GQ Mark Anthony Green, Global Editorial Director of GQ Will Welch, and more.
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Gucci’d down to the socks, Allen Iverson indulged in the minute almost twenty years after solitarily altering fashion culture in the NBA.
“My mindset at 21 years of ages is, I’m not using no fit to go hoop,” stated Iverson in GQ’s Sports Style Hall of Fame issue.
And I believe what got the culture was the reality that here he is, a mega-superstar and abundant, and he dressed similar to us, and individuals had actually never ever seen that previously. Then you’re seeing everyone start to come to the video game dressing like I looked. Everybody had the diamond chains and the huge earrings. Kobe had the diamond chain and the earrings and all.
So it resembled someone needed to take the ass-whooping. I was the one that really sobbed. I keep in mind having that minute where I was so hurt, since they had the thug-this and thug-that, and after that all of my tattoos and sh*t. I just had this one tattoo my novice season since I couldn’t manage tattoos. So now when I got some cash, now I wanna get what I wanna get.
It resembled the worst sensation on the planet for muhf**kas to call you a gangster and a punk, and you imagine not needing to live that life and not remain in the streets and all that old sh*t, to be on a platform where I might be taken a look at similar to every other diligent individual on the planet.
It was bittersweet, since at the end of the day, look the number of other individuals you assisted. Now you can’t discover a basketball gamer without tattoos, or you can’t discover someone without cornrows or fears or without precious jewelry on. It’s the standard.”
Check out GQ’s video wrap-up, Allen Iverson’s Style Hall of Fame interview, and all of the picks from the event listed below: