IVERSON GIVES HIS ANSWER TO HIS BODYGUARD: "SEE YA"

          ALLEN IVERSON has "terminated the relationship" with
     his bodyguard TERRY ROYSTER, according to Stephen Smith of
     the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER.  Iverson was paying Royster
     $100,000 per year.  Iverson "doesn't need Royster," as he is
     "spending more time with his two children."  Smith adds that
     during the playoffs, Iverson has "even sharpened his
     wardrobe, entering postgame news conferences in two-piece
     suits."  One friend of Iverson's said, "He's going through a
     total image transformation.  It's become very important to
     him.  He's expressed that to all of us" (PHILADELPHIA
     INQUIRER, 5/21).  Iverson: "I just don't want people to feel
     like I'm some bad guy, label me the bad boy.  I'm not the
     bad boy of the NBA" (CNN/SI, 5/20).  Iverson's relationship
     with 76ers President PAT CROCE is examined by Larry Platt in
     Philadelphia Magazine.  The two "claim to have more in
     common than the gulfs of race and generation that should
     divide them." Croce: "We're soulmates" (PHILADELPHIA, 5/99).