How Much Would Iverson Drop at Strip Clubs?

So I guess it makes more sense why former Sixer Allen Iverson might being running low on cash.

According to a recent article in Sports Illustrated, featuring former Sixer Matt Barnes, he said Iverson would spend $30,000 to $40,000 nightly in strip clubs.

“Allen was the first guy that showed me how NBA players spend money in strip clubs,” Barnes says. “That guy went. HARD. He’d throw so much money, and this was when I was first in the league, that I used to take my foot and scoop the s— under my chair and either re-throw it or put some in my pocket. He’d throw $30,000, $40,000 every time we went. I’m like, ‘You realize what I can do with this money?’”

Barnes who played with the Sixers in the 2005-2006 season, while Mo Cheeks was the Sixers coach.  Barnes didn't have very many nice things to say about Cheeks in the article.

Barnes talks about this exchange with Cheeks during his time with the Sixers:

“I don’t see why you’re working on your shot,” Cheeks said.

 

“You’re not going to get to shoot here.” Barnes fumed, but said nothing.

 

A week later, in practice, things came to a head. “I came down on a 3-on-1 and hit pull-up 15-footer off the glass and [Cheeks] stopped practice,” says Barnes. “He yells, ‘What are you doing? What are you shooting the ball for? You know that’s not your job, you gotta pass the ball!’”

 

Barnes was shocked “What? But I made the shot.”

 

Said Cheeks: “That’s why you don’t play.’”

 

And then, Barnes says, he lost it. “I was going to chase him down and whoop his ass, so I took off after him and AI grabbed me and I got through him and Chris [Webber] grabbed me and bearhugged me and I said to Mo, ‘You’re lucky.’”

 

Says Barnes now: “I hated Mo Cheeks. He was a dick.”

I guess it makes more sense why Cheeks was not a very successful NBA coach.