Julius Erving

LeBron James just won the 2012 NBA regular season MVP, his third such honor in the past four seasons--and he really deserved the 2011 award as well, so he easily could have become the first player in professional basketball history to win four straig...

Julius Erving scored his first professional points as a Virginia Squire and he won two championships while establishing himself as the best all-around player in the sport as a New York Net but he will forever be remembered by most fans for the 11 yea...

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If you read Grantland.com (and if you don’t, what’s wrong with you?), then you’ve probably seen the article that Jay Caspian Kang wrote about Memphis’s chances of making the NBA Finals this summer. In it, Kang illustrates the...

On Saturday night, Deron Williams scored a career-high 57 points in New Jersey's 104-101 victory at Charlotte. That is the most points an NBA player has scored in a game since Kobe Bryant dropped 61 points on the Knicks at Madison Square Garden--but,...

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Julius Erving, the legendary and incomparable Dr. J, turns 62 years old today. Casual fans may remember him most for his spectacular dunks and smooth moves but it should never be forgotten that he was a highly productive player, a champion in two pro...

On Feb. 24 at the Swan hotel at Disney World, the National Basketball Retired Players Association will host a roundtable discussion on the impact of black leadership in sports and in basketball. Participants in that discussion will include Kareem Abd...

Kobe Bryant scored a game-high 28 points in a game-high 44 minutes on Monday night as his L.A. Lakers lost 95-90 to the Philadelphia 76ers. Along the way, Bryant moved past his former teammate Shaquille O'Neal into seventh place on the career ABA/NBA...

Every year around this time, the NBA All-Star starters are announced and someone--often it is Charles Barkley--delivers a rant about how terrible it is that the fans choose the All-Star starters. The All-Star voting process is obviously subjective ev...

Before ESPN and before the internet, sports fans had simpler--yet, in many ways, just as fulfilling--ways to learn more about their favorite players. The syndicated program Greatest Sports Legends--created by Berl Rotfeld and later produced by his so...

When LeBron James and Chris Bosh joined forces with Dwyane Wade to form a power trio in Miami some commentators reflexively said that the Heat were "Dwyane Wade's team" and criticized James for supposedly being so eager to give up alpha dog status to...