Brandon Scott is the Allen Iverson of politics

After posting a photo on social media that I’d nervously snagged of me and Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott at a KIPP Baltimore school Christmas party in 2022, I casually wrote, “He’s like what Allen Iverson was to basketball.” When the National Basketball Association imposed strict dress code regulations on Basketball players, Iverson donned durags, large chains and baggy clothing now synonymous with late ’90s and early 2000s hip-hop culture.