By Julius Erving
With startling honesty and an unmistakable voice, Dr. J is a old self-portrait of an American legend, Julius "The surgeon" Erving.
With his flights of improvisation round the basket and his towering afro, Julius Erving grew to become probably the most charismatic (and innovative) gamers basketball has ever identified. yet whereas the general public has lengthy respected this cultural icon, few have ever identified of the double lifetime of Julius Erving. Dr. J strains the interior lives of the approximately ideal participant and the imperfect man—and how he has come to phrases with both.
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A hole where a daddy should have been. He never took me out and taught me how to fish or how to play catch with a couple of gloves and a ball. He never grabbed my hand and walked me through a parking lot or taught me how to ride a bike. He never stood behind me when I was getting bullied so I could say I’m going to tell my dad. I never even knew that’s what dads did. But I feel sorry for him, not for myself. There are so many kids in the projects who don’t even know who their daddy is, so at least I knew mine.
I ask. ” She points to our strange hoop. ” she says. ” It’s finally getting dark and the heat of the day breaks, loses its hold, so that it is cool now and we are all huddled near the pole, hands over our eyes or heads leaning against a shoulder in front, like a congregation bowing to a basketball rim. We count. I feel my forehead against Freda’s hard shoulder blade, keeping my head pressed at an angle to keep the part on the right side of my hair, and I’m looking down, between her back and my front, to the dirt.
My high school basketball portrait in 1968. These guys hadn’t seen the likes of me. (University of Massachusetts–Amherst) I had to bide my time to play varsity. (UMass/Getty) Representing the United States in Estonia for the Olympic Development team. People went into the trees and onto the roof of a nearby school to see me at Rucker Park in 1971. (The Rucker Pro Legends) The Doctor is operating. Ripping the ball down on my way up with the Virginia Squires. (The Virginian-Pilot) Jamming one over my future Nets teammate Billy “the Whopper” Paultz.