Now for sports: A.I. might be in for long haul

Iverson might be in for long haul At 33, star guard said Pistons are the type of organization he'd like to end his career with. Chris McCosky / The Detroit News TORONTO -- He's been here two days, hasn't even played a game yet and already people want to know how long he's staying. "I am starting to feel like a journeyman," Allen Iverson joked before Pistons shoot-around Wednesday. All kidding aside, though, Iverson wouldn't mind if his third team, the Pistons, was his last. "I want to finish my career mainly at a spot where I can be happy first, and have a chance to win a championship," he said. "Hopefully, everything will work out and I can stay right where I'm at. Honestly, I know with the personnel that's here and the organization, with the way they run everything first class, I am going to have an opportunity to win a championship. I have a big-time resume, but there is a big-time hole in it." Iverson, 33, is in the final year of his contract. What he won't do, he said, was chase money. He's looking for the best fit, not the biggest paycheck. "My whole thing is winning a championship," he said. "I have money. I have all the individual accolades. I've done the All-Star thing. I've been the scoring champ and an MVP. What I haven't had was the chance to feel the feeling of winning a championship. That's the most important thing right now." Pistons president Joe Dumars said Monday he had no preconceptions about whether he would pursue keeping Iverson here beyond this season. He's taking the same tack he took with Rasheed Wallace back in 2004. Let it play out and assess it after the season. Iverson said he wants to play until he's 39 -- six more seasons. "I know you guys have put me in a rocking chair already," he said. "When the time comes and we have a game and you put that scouting report up and my name isn't one of the first or second names on that scouting report, and I can't dominate like I used to, then I don't want to play no more. I won't do anything to tarnish my legacy." Iverson wasn't allowed to play Wednesday because Chauncey Billups and Cheikh Samb hadn't yet taken their physicals in Denver. Running with Rip There has been media speculation Iverson's presence will force the Pistons to move Richard Hamilton into a sixth-man role because Iverson and Hamilton couldn't play together without a true point guard. Coach Michael Curry doused that theory. "I look at it as being the same as if Chauncey were still here," he said. For one, Curry said, Rodney Stuckey isn't ready to be the full-time starting point guard. Secondly, Curry thinks Iverson and Hamilton can be a lethal duo. "Stuckey is still learning," Curry said. "He has a lot of talent, but he still has a ways to go. I've always said, if you don't give young guys things and you make them earn it, they will keep it. "If you give them something, you can take it away. He's earning his keep, and he's earning his time on the court." Curry also loves the idea of having two high-energy, aggressive offensive players like Iverson and Hamilton creating mayhem together. Iverson agrees. "I think it's going to be a positive," Iverson said. "(Defenses) can't give me the attention on the court they usually give me with a guy like Rip out there with me, and they can't give him the attention they usually give him with me out there. "Hopefully, I can make the game a lot easier for him and he can do the same for me." Slam dunk TNT has picked up the Pistons game next Thursday at Golden State. Tip-off will still be 10:30 p.m. It will not be carried on FSN.