Vince Carter said Julius Erving was his athletic idol and having ... Salute.” The then-New Jersey Nets acquired Carter from Toronto in Dec. 2004, and his scoring jumped from 15.9 points to ...

I gave up the cleats and football, and I got my jumper back." Basketball is still No. 1 for Erving As he looked back at his ...

1987 — Julius Erving of the Philadelphia 76ers becomes the third player to score 30,000 points in his pro career. Erving scores 38 points to join Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

As the New Jersey Nets prepared to move to Brooklyn ... Back to the shooting stars in Nets history, we move on to Dr. J. Julius Erving played for the New York Nets in the ABA for three seasons ...

The timing wasn’t right, but the salon served as a training ground for his future business ventures and set an example for ...

Bob MacKinnon, Buffalo's own, was the architect of the greatest upset in pro basketball history. This week marks 50 years since the start of that stunner of a series.

Unquestionably the greatest known athlete in UMass history, Julius Erving ... Following his collegiate playing days, Erving went on to be one of the greatest players in ABA and NBA history, led the ...

Erving also advised James to rectify the impact he had by never competing in the NBA Slam Dunk Contest. As a pioneer of the dunk contest, the 16-time All-Star believes it's still within the realm of ...