Dr. J operated above the rest By Larry Schwartz Special to ESPN.com "I'd go through the middle -- make the ball disappear, switch hands -- do something mag ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...