14 years ago today: Iverson talks about 'practice'

May 7 is an eventful date in NBA history. In 1989, there was "The Shot" by Michael Jordan. Six years later, Reggie Miller pulled off one of the most breathtaking spurts in playoff history, scoring eight points in nine seconds.

Yet the granddaddy of them all may not have taken place on the floor. On this date in 2002, Allen Iverson took the podium at a news conference after his Philadelphia 76ers' season ended and proceeded to make meme history. In a rant defending criticisms against him by coach Larry Brown for, among other things, missing team training sessions, Iverson used the word "practice" 15 times.

The video became an instant legend in the pre-social media age. Last month, the Hall of Famer revisited the incident and said that he got caught up on a specific question a reporter had asked. "If you had have said something about lasagna at that point," Iverson said, "I would have kept saying lasagna."