Julius Erving - Dr. J.
"This past weekend gave us the All-Star game festivities as the NBA season reaches its midpoint (all flows through LeBron). And it just so happens, Basketball: Great Writing About America’s Game, the fantastic new anthology from the esteemed Library of America is set to drop in a few weeks. Edited by Sports Illustrated’s elegant, longtime hoops scribe, Alex Wolff, the collection features three sparkling profiles from our pages, on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Larry Bird and Julius Erving, aka, Dr. J. ... Or the kind of pick-up games that are so precisely evoked in 'Doc’s Story,' the terse short story by John Edgar Wideman, who, before becoming a novelist, played college ball against the likes of 'Dollar' Bill Bradley. Street ball (Hello, Lloyd Daniels) is a good place to return...."
Esquire
2011 June: American Basketball Association, 2012 July: Doin’ It In The Park: Pick-Up Basketball, NYC, 2012 November: Your Guide to the Brooklyn Nets, 2013 March: March Madness 2013, 2013 October: Rucker Park, 2014 January: History of the high five, 2015 February: Dean Smith (February 28, 1931 – February 7, 2015), 2015 June: Basketball’s Obtuse Triangle, 2015 September: Joint Ventures: How sneakers became high fashion and big business, 2015 October: Loose Balls - Terry Pluto (2007), 2015 November: The Sounds of Memphis, 2015 December: Welcome to Smarter Basketball, 2015 December: New York, New York: Julius Erving, the Nets-Knicks Feud, and America’s Bicentennial, 2016 January: The Last Shot: City Streets, Basketball Dreams (1994), 2016 January: A Long Hardwood Journey, 2016 March: American Hustle - Alexandra Starr, 2016 November: 2016–17 College Basketball, 2017 November: 2017-18 College Basketball, 2017 March: N.C.A.A. Bracket Predictions: Who the Tournament Experts Pick, 2017 June: The Rise and Fall of the High-Top Sneaker, 2018 January: Chaos Is This College Basketball Season’s Only Constant
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