"It was just a touch of the virus" - Julius Erving brushed off sickness and dominated Nets in 1984 win originally appeared on Basketball Network. Julius Erving made it a point to suit up for the ...

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Julius Winfield Erving II, commonly known by the nickname "Dr. J", is an American retired basketball player who helped popularize a modern style of play that emphasizes leaping and playing above the ...

NBA legend Julius Erving put together his top all-time NBA teams, and one of the modern-day greats didn't make the list. In an appearance on Posted Up with Chris Haynes, the Hall of Famer explained ...

On Sunday, the Chicago Triplets and Miami 305 are scheduled to face off for the BIG3 championship. Philadelphia 76ers legend Julius Erving is head coach of Chicago’s BIG3 team. Erving had a prolific ...

On April 19, 1988, 32 years ago to the date, the 76ers raised Julius Erving’s no. 6 to the rafters of The Spectrum. Addressing the assembled crowd that night, Erving noted that winning the 1983 NBA ...

His official name is Julius Winfield Erving II, but he became better known around the NBA and in sports culture in general as Dr. J in the '70s and '80s. Dr. J was as much a basketball superstar as he ...

They were young, perhaps too young to know they were too young to win a championship. But there they were at Nassau Coliseum, on May 10, 1974, doing just that, the center of a party attended by 15,934 ...

Julius Winfield Erving II arrived in Norfolk to begin his professional basketball career on April 5, 1971, with the nickname of “Dr. J” and an assortment of spectacular dunk shots. That magnificent ...

(Editor’s note: Welcome back to The Athletic NBA 75. We’re re-running our top 40 players to count down every day from Sept. 8-Oct. 17, the day before the opening of the 2022-23 NBA season. This piece ...

BOCA RATON — As amazing as he was on the basketball court during his Hall of Fame career with the New York Nets and Philadelphia 76ers, Julius Erving is equally impressive as a partner on the golf ...