“He was — clearly,” Leon Saunders, one of Erving’s oldest and closest friends, told me. “There are a couple of players who ...

Julius Erving, with his signature afro haircut swaying to its own rhythm, embodied the art of basketball physically and emotionally. Gliding through the air and controlling the ball mid-flight was ...

"I think," Julius Erving told me one day over the phone ... I referred to it as 'an Afro-American aerial ballet.' That's how I saw how Julius was doing. That was the best description I could ...

(KVOA) - Julius "Dr. J" Erving made a house call to Palo Verde ... childhood and journey to the ABA and NBA. "The dunks, the afro, the ABA, the converse, he's an icon in the game of basketball ...