Julius Erving

Birth Name:

Julius Winfield Erving

Birth Place:

Roosevelt, New York, United States

Profession

Actor

Was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1993
Was named one of 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996
Won the J․ Walter Kennedy Citizenship Award in 1983
Played basketball for the University of Massachusetts, enrolling in 1968
Starred on the Roosevelt High School basketball team
Started his professional career in the American Basketball Association playing for the Virginia Squires and the New York Nets
Played for the Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA for 11 years
Was one of the first players to make impromptu individual expression such as midair spins and whirls punctuated with slam dunks an integral part of basketball
Became the owner of a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Philadelphia
Considered to be one of the main catalysts for the ABA-NBA merger in 1976

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