Origin On Dec. 24, 2020, a quote ostensibly uttered by former NBA player Allen Iverson in which he denied (and then seemingly confirmed) a rumor that he occasionally spent $40,000 at a strip club was circulated on social media: This is not a genuine quote from Iverson. The fake quote first started circulating in 2015 in response to a comment from Iverson’s former teammate Matt Barnes. In an interview with Sports Illustrated, Barnes said that his former Philiadelphia 76ers’ teammate Iverson would spend $30,000 to $40,000 every time he went to a strip club. Allen was the first guy that showed me how NBA players spend money in strip clubs. 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–t 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?”