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Together we’ll explore the nature and nurturing of healthy communities. J to our Conversations about Healthy Communities series. Joseph Children’s Health on September 26, 2022, as we welcome Dr.

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Since his retirement, Erving remains actively involved with the Philadelphia 76ers, representing the team in a formal capacity he also participates as a coach for the BIG3 professional 3-on-3 league. He is the New York Times best-selling author of Dr. Gracious, dignified and disciplined, Erving was an ideal ambassador for the game. He was selected as a member of the NBA’s 50th Anniversary All-Time team and in 1993 was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame.

J” was considered “the league.” He was the most well-known player when the ABA merged with the National Basketball Association (NBA) after the 1976 season.Įrving won three championships, four Most Valuable Player Awards and three scoring titles while playing with the ABA’s Virginia Squires, the New York Nets (now the Brooklyn Nets), and the Philadelphia 76ers. Much as players are considered “the team,” “Dr. Erving helped legitimize the now-defunct American Basketball Association (ABA). His innovative style of play, including his signature “slam” dunk, is now a basic skill set of the modern game. J,” helped launch a modern style of play that emphasizes leaping and playing above the rim. Widely considered one of the greatest athletes of the 20th century, Julius Winfield Erving, known by the nickname, “Dr.

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Known as one of the greatest NBA players of all time-and the man who popularized the “slam” dunk-Julius Erving shares what he learned from 16 seasons of pro ball, and 30 years of post-basketball life. The audio for this program is not available.“I demand more of myself than anyone else could ever expect.” – Julius “Dr J” Erving I am living a bountiful life, and while it has not always been easy, it has been exciting and, I believe, emblematic of our time. I want to recall with you everything that I have seen and done, and try to make sense of this ongoing journey. I ask for no pity I only want to relate what I have felt and seen.Īn American life, after all, is the sum of its parts, the successes and the failings, and mine has been rich with both. I am an American man whose journey has been blessed by the great gifts that America offers-wealth, fame, championships, awards-and also scoured by the tragedies that are a part of the human experience. J Enterprises and the Erving Group, partner in the first minority-owned NASCAR team in the modern era, board member of corporations such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Meridian Bank, Williams Communications, and Sports Authority, and institutions including Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Philadelphia’s Fairmont Park Commission-are those I wish to be measured by. My other accomplishments- of completing my college degree, of the pride I take in my children, of rising up and out of the Hempstead, Long Island, projects to become Julius Erving, founder and CEO of Dr. I am, of course, an athlete, a former basketball player, and while my achievements in that arena are my best known, they are only the mythic part of my story. I am an African-American, living through tumultuous times in our country, navigating a cultural landscape that has been very much divided for much of my life I am a husband, trying and not always succeeding to live up to vows of fidelity amid the seductions of celebrity and fame I am a father, seeking to impart values and my belief in America to my sons and daughters, pulled too often by the demands of professional sports away from those children I am a businessman, believing deeply in the system that rewarded me and now seeking to build another legacy. Yet my journey is more than that of an athlete. I am born with great genetic gifts of speed and strength and dexterity, and the opportunities of my country allowed me to gain wealth and fame through basketball. I believe that while what I achieved is only possible in the United States, my faults are my own, singular and personal.

Mine is an American life, fully lived, rich with the spoils and temptations of success, and rife with the failings and shortcomings of succumbing to those same temptations. The author spoke with Bill Littlefied on Only A Game. ( Listen to our interview and read Bill's book review.)

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