Philadelphia ? Allen Iverson may not practice much with his 76ers teammates, but Tuesday morning he pulled off a pick-and-roll that would have made coach Larry Brown proud.

The all-star guard, who, since Thursday, has eluded journalists as well as he avoids shot-blockers, slipped out of his Gladwyne home with most reporters, photographers, and television camera people thinking they had already seen him and taken their money shot.

It was a pure piece of fakery.

Here’s how the play went down:

Two Cadillac Escalades a white one first, trailed by a green one left from the mansion’s main gate about 4:45 a.m. Reporters and cameras converged on the sport-utility vehicles, figuring that a man with a blue towel on his head in the back seat of the green one was Iverson.

It wasn’t.

A second convoy zoomed past moments later. It left from a private road that parallels the $2.4 million estate.

Iverson was in a green Mazda minivan that was sandwiched between a black Mercedes and a Lower Merion Township police car.

The move fooled just about everyone outside except an Associated Press photographer who took what is believed to be the only photo of Iverson in the minivan that took him to Philadelphia Police Department headquarters.

Meanwhile, television reporters, thinking they had video of Iverson in the white Cadillac, started preparing for a 5 a.m. live feed and were caught helpless when the second convoy roared around the corner.

It is unclear who designed the escape. Iverson’s law firm, Sprague & Sprague, declined comment. Lower Merion police said they were not involved. Brown could not be reached.

Journalists subsequently tailed the second convoy. Most were faked out again when Iverson arrived at Police Headquarters at Eighth and Race Streets.

A half-hour after leaving Gladwyne, Iverson entered the police building not through the usual back doors, but through a secure garage entrance.