pennyccwai's video: Allen Iverson 40 point games 12 50 pts vs Sacremento Kings 2000-02-06

Allen Iverson reached 50 points at the same time Chris Webber reached exhaustion. Iverson matched his career high and the best total in the NBA this season, leading the Philadelphia 76ers to a 119-108 victory over the road-weary Sacramento Kings. One week away from his first All-Star Game, Iverson provided a peek for a national TV audience. The electric 6-1 guard took an astounding 40 shots -- making 20 -- and added nine rebounds and six assists. "It's nice to see Allen play so well on TV in a game where we were one of the primary games. That was neat," 76ers coach Larry Brown said. "I think it has to mean a lot to everybody. There was a time when we were never on. The reason we're on is because we've won some games and Allen is on our team." "I just played my regular game like I try to play every night," Iverson said. "I play every game like it's my last. I've been taking a lot of shots since I was a little kid. That's what I do. I'm a scorer. You can't be a scorer if you get tired of taking shots." Brown didn't seem to mind Iverson's shot total, which surpassed his 38 against Milwaukee on January 3 as the most by any player this season. "It's hard to get 40 shots up against anybody," the coach said. "I thought his shot selection was pretty darn good and he made some big shots. It's nice to have people watch on TV and see he doesn't just shoot the ball. "If he was taking bad shots, I think it would be a terrible thing but I go in that locker room and I don't see many guys -- they mumble a little bit -- I don't see many guys complaining. His assists have gone up with the number of shots going up. As long as they know he's trying to win the game and his coach runs stuff for him and he gets himself free, it's something they're not opposed to. I'd love other guys to take shots. If you ask him he would say the same thing." Iverson scored in double figures in every quarter -- equaling Sacramento's total in the third period -- as he tied his previous career high against Cleveland on April 12, 1997. He also matched Phoenix forward Cliff Robinson, who scored a league season-high 50 points against Denver on January 16. "It's a great accomplishment because not a lot of guys score 50 points," Iverson said. "Just to win makes it that much better. It makes me feel real good. It let's me know that I can score the way I'm capable of scoring and we can win. People feel like when I score a lot of points, it's hard for us to win. It's not. I'm the scorer on this team." "He was very good," Kings coach Rick Adelman said "He penetrated to the basket pretty much when he wanted to. We didn't do a good job of keeping him in front of us. He had streaks where he made shots but he also got a number of open-court things. That really hurt us. We allowed him to get easy baskets." Webber was phenomenal. With the Kings playing their eighth road game in 13 days, the All-Star forward had 32 points, 15 rebounds and seven assists. He played every second until fouling out with 1:37 to play. That foul put Iverson on the line and he made both to reach 50 and give the 76ers a 109-102 lead. He had a steal on the next possession and fed George Lynch for a clinching dunk before exiting to chants of "MVP! MVP!" from the First Union Center crowd. "It's frustrating," Webber said. "They're a good team, you have to give them credit. They took it from us and they won." The Sixers never trailed and improved to 3-10 all-time when Iverson scores 40 points or more, including 2-3 this season. He had 40 in a three-point loss at Houston on Thursday. "It's better when you win," said Iverson, who raised his league-leading scoring average from 30.9 to 31.5. "I've been getting so much flak about me playing a game like it's my last, ending up with 40 and not winning. People looked at it like it's a bad thing, but you have good nights some nights and your team doesn't win. "When I scored 40, we hadn't won a lot of those games. I play the same way every night. When I scored 40 and we won, what could be said about it then? It's the way it goes. I might sccore five or 10 points and we still win. Is that to say if I don't score, we'll win every night?"