Okay, so it seems like Trey Burke is done with the headband for good. That means we can no longer compare him to Allen Iverson. If you want to continue comparing him to Allen Iverson, go ahead, but it won’t make sense because how can you compare them if they don’t have the same headgear? The rest of us will be over here thinking about new comparisons for Burke. My tentative list:
-Michael Jordan
-Kobe Bryant
-Tracy McGrady
-John Stockton (token white guy comp)
-Allen Iverson (wait)
-Wilt Chamberlain
That’s a good starting point right now. Did any of those dudes where headbands regularly? If so, take them off the list, but I don’t think any of them did.
Those comps may seem a little optimistic, but you haven’t seen what Trey Burke did to the Celtics tonight. He dominated them early, toyed with them a bit to make them think they could maybe win it, and then totally dumped all over their hopes and dreams, as well as the hopes and dreams of their entitled fanbase. I can’t decide if this would’ve been a better performance had it been performed at Madison Square Garden. Maybe, maybe not.
And before I forget, he did all this while coming off the bench. You know the Allen Iverson comp doesn’t work any more when he’s apparently fine with coming off the bench.