He would be perfect if he tailored his game to be like Jason Terry from Dallas. Short combo guard off the bench who just fires up a 2nd unit and takes all the scoring load off a group of defensive/rebounding specialists. He could easily average 10-15 ppg off the bench. He could easily make several million dollars a year doing this.
He would have to:
1) Publicly profess himself ready to make that leap as a player and become support for a contender
2) Push his ego aside and realize that he's no longer the greatest thing on the court
3) Work on his shot some more since he has coasted on his athleticism which is fading pretty fast
He won't do any of those things, so there's absolutely no reason for any team to even offer him a contract. He will demand more than any team can reasonably afford to spend on him and I'm sure he has delusions about his value.
On top of that, his game is really from a previous era of guard in the NBA. The Post-Jordan era of NBA was all about quick scoring combo guards like Iverson, Steve Francis, Tracy McGrady, etc. When they changed the rules in the NBA to allow more floating zone defense and more physical contact on the ball with hand-checking and guards posting each other the game completely changed and players who were undersized (like Iverson) and relied on cutting through weak man defenders for easy buckets (like Iverson) were dramatically worse players.
I'm a huge NBA fan and I could talk about this stuff all day long, but it doesn't require a thick and dusty tome to explain why Iverson can't get a contract. The most simple answer is that he's washed up but thinks he's still a rock star.
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Why Can't Allen Iverson Get A Job