When Doc was with the Nets he had his athletic youth, less stars demanding the touches, and the green light. As a result, that run in the ABA was one of the greatest we have ever seen from any player in any era.
I read your comment and thought, "Yes, he's so right." The ABA years were fantastic. NBA basketball today is dull by comparison. I got to see the Nets in 1974 against the Pacers at Nassau Coliseum and it was incredible.
When Julius came into the NBA and joined George McGinnis,Doug Collins,World B Free and Daryl Dawkins in Philly,that was just as large,maybe even larger than LeBron joining the Heat.I will say that it was larger due to the fact that the two leagues merged in 1976.Just think there was no social media,and no ESPN.Just local TV and game of the week on CBS with Brent Musberger.
This is the REAL DR J!! The guy in Philly.....especially after 1980 was Julius Erving lite.. ..still awesome but this dude here is why he should be in more GOAT convos....NOT saying he is GOAT...just in the convo lol
what a joke, Dr j is a one trick pony. tell me one 20 foot jump shot Dr j ever took . never. this guy is revered by so many . people love what? that he takes lay ups and dunks and never has a jump shot . how can he be goat. please someone out here let me know how u can be the best of all time and do lay ups all day long.
Quite a few, but dunks make highlights. and no, he wasn't a 3 pt marksman. so what? and if he's so one dimensional. how does he gave a career 24 of avg in both leagues? and who's your favorite player?
24 Ave of all dunks , he had quick first step to the basket. he would lay it up or dunk. don't compare j game to Micheal jordan game not even close. Dr had no jump shot he lost even more faith in his jumper as he got older. Mike always had jump shot Ave 37points in his 2nd year in league
kevin araujo One more thing Michael Jordan didn't have an outside shot tell in his mid-career which would have been in the nineties when he started winning championships. I don't know where you get he could shoot jumpers in his second year, you're a moron!
so how did he average 37 points a game in that year . actually it was his 3rd year cause his second year he was out with foot injury. no one averages 37 points a game without a good jump shot. don't resort to call people names just because u don't agree with them , this makes u into a coward. don't be mad cause Mike is the best
it's amazing dr's stats in those ABA finals!he avg 38p-14 reb-6ass vs bobby jones,one of the best defenders in the history of ABA and NBA!prime dr was even more dominant than lebron!drj had 3 rings, 2 in ABA,1 in NBA,4 mvp.3 in ABA 1 in NBA,he led 76ers byhimself in 3 nba finals vs all-star lakers!i think he deserves more to be consider in top 10-15 players ever and not olny the first high-flyer!he was also great defender.he avg 2stals and 2 blocks in his career and almost 51fg%!
Brings back great memories. I remember listening to this game on the radio as a teen in NYC. You couldn't get the home games on TV back then. Guard John Williamson had the quarter of his life in that 4th quarter scoring 16 of his 28 points. When the Nets acquired Nate "Tiny" Archibald, for sure, I thought they'd win a championship in their first year in the NBA. That is, until they had to sell Julius Erving to the 76ers. With a few exceptions, the Nets have been pretty much cursed ever since.
Saw your comment about listening to the Nets on the radio. In the early 70s, when Rick Barry was still with the team, you could hear the games on WHN AM radio. The announcer use to say, "WHN...We Have the Nets." I remember Al Albert was the announcer. I remember listening to the 1972 playoffs on the radio.
I was lucky enough to be an ABA fan and live in the New York City area back in the 1970s. I saw Julius Erving and the Nets at Nassau Coliseum in 1974 against the Indiana Pacers. No problem getting tickets, the arena was mostly empty. But what great basketball, and what a great team! Erving was just incredible--he made the impossible look routine. I've always felt that his best years were with the Nets. It was a big mistake for Roy Boe to sell his contract to the 76ers; the Nets were never the same afterwards. And the moves to New Jersey and now Brooklyn were asinine. The Nets should have stayed on Long Island and rebuilt there. Oh, and the classic red, white, and blue racing stripe Nets uniform from the 1970s is still the coolest ever.
Roy Boe did everything he could to keep Dr J. He didnt have enough money to pay the $3.2 "expansion" fee the NBA charged him and the other 3 ABA clubs. Plus Doc wanted a new contract. Allegedly, after the merger, Doc was supposed to get a new contract from the Nets, Roy Boe either wouldnt(or couldnt) do it so Doc sat out and refused to report to training camp. Doc and the Nets were at an impasse. The Sixers(and Knicks) were interested in acquiring Doc but New York didnt want to pay(not because they couldnt). Meanwhile the NBA wanted their $3.2 mil and the deadline was looming so Roy Boe HAD to make a decision. A few days before the 1976-77 regular season, he was sold to Philly for over $6 million. Roy Boe used part of that money to pay the 4 plus million indemnification fee to the Knicks. The Sixers owner gave him a "new" contract and the rest was history.
This is the real Dr. J!!! Too bad only few people got to him. I remember when I was a little kid living the South Bronx, and the word on the street (not in the newspapers, tv or radio) was "There is dude named Dr. J who is totally awesome!!! They said he plays for the Virginia Squires in the new ABA league!!!! I am so glad I got to see the Real Dr. J!!!!
When Julius came over to the NBA,fans got only a few glimpses of the the real Doctor.Had this Net team came into the NBA as is,it would have been a whole lot different.He was still great,but took a little bit of a back seat once he got to Philly especially his first two seasons.
That's true because the coach of the Sixers when they had Doc, McGinnis, and Doug Collins, wanted those 3 players to have equal touches. When Doc was with the Nets, he had the green light and was the go to guy and all the rest were role players.
The man was a true BADASS! Deified gravity! I loved the way he would palm the ball with those ABA colors. I got to go to the Denver Nuggets Basketabll summer camp in 1976 and 77. Larry Brown sais he was going to send us kids home (8th Grade) for stopping practice and just staring in awe at the Fort Collins HS cheerleaders. Ahh good times!!
Except that LeBron betrays his teammates every chance that he gets. With the possible exception of George McGuiness, Erving's teammates loved playing with him.
In the NBA, Irving was just another good player without that killer instinct to clutch shoot his way to a win. But he is legendary for his moves and NBA/ABA merger. The Dr is a total class act for integrating the 2 leagues into one, and the expansion he promoted well. People came JUST to see the Dr do something special and he didn't disappoint..
@@harnessworx3046 what move other then the abbilty to palm the ball and do fancy layups did mj stole? mj jumpshot was better, handels post game were all better.
@@VictorLionsTV yup. Young folk only about scoring. That is 1 dimension...and can u score when it counts...is the real question. MANY FANS DO NOT KNOW THAT JULIUS MADE A CONCSCIENCE DECISION TO TAKE LESS SHOTS AND NOT BE A 30 POINT AVERAGE IN PHILLY. IT WASN'T THAT COULD NOT DO IT. IN 1980 27 A GAME 30 YRS OLD. AT 21 HE AVERAGE 27.3. HIS FG PERCENTAGE WAS HIGHER AT 30 WITH LESS SHOTS. IF HE PLAYED TODAY...WITH RECKLESS ABANDON HE WOULD DOMINANT. IN OTHER WORDS THE SAME STUFF HE DID THEN...THEY WOULD SAY NOW...PEOPLE WOULD SAY WHOAAA....WHO IS THIS? HE WAS A FREAK WITH THE BALL. HIS HANDS HIS JUMP HIS AIR TIME WITH HIS 6'7 FRAME WOULD BE OFF THE CHARTS. THEY DONT PLAY DEFENSE TODAY. EVERYBODY KISSING. HE WOULD HOUSE CALL EVERYBODY.
@@VictorLionsTV OMG! LMFAO LOUDLY. IM NOT SURE IT WOULD BE HIGH. BUT HE WOULD HAVE MULTIPLE GAMES OVER A SEASON WHERE IT WOULD BE LIKE THAT. I WATCHED HIM IN THE ABA FOR THE NETS AND IT WAS A PLEASURE.
Wikipedia on owner Roy Boe States he offered to trade Julius in exchange for the territorial 4.8 owed to the Garden. I saw a documentary on the ABA that because Mr. Irving demanded a new contract forcing Boe to trade him. You might be correct, but it wouldn't surprise me that Knicks brass knew Boe's financial woes (no pun intended) and thought they could get the nearly 5M and use it to pay the Doctor, perhaps overconfident that they would wind up with him anyway, because of the Nets $ issues.
Erving toned down his game when he entered the NBA because it was suggested that playing with guys like McGinnis, Doug Collins, Lloyd Free etc that the Sixers didn't need for him to be that dominant but play more of a team oriented style...
Well remember the Knicks wanted Dr J but they did not have the rights to him in the 1st place. They lost a 1st round draft pick because of this mess. That was how Dr J ended up with Sixers.
That was George McGinnis the prior year. Larry O'Brien, the best commish the NBA ever had, said 'no can do' to the the knicks trying to skirt the rules.
Roy Boe had to sell Dr. J to an NBA team because it cost him 3.2 million to enter the NBA and another 4.8 million to pay the invasion penalty to MSG, so Roy Boe offered Dr. J to the Knicks in exchange for not having to pay the 4.8M. The Knicks said "NO" (Idiots!) Boe contemplated selling off star NY Islanders players off his NHL team to help pay the 8M and eventually Julius went to the Sixers and the NBA and NHL realized he was in over his head and strong armed Boe into giving up both teams.
yah , and he had no jump shot and people that grew up watching talk about how he is so great. great at what dunking. and also Dr j never has anything good to say about jordan and Jordan had the whole package. jump shot, free throw, fast of the dribble either hand, a killer scorer, and unstoppable at with back to the basket which is hardest shot in basketball. please j don't compare to jordan.
@@kevinaraujo4945 he blocked more shots and shot a better % than MJ. He played higher above the rim consistently. MJ doesn't impress Doc. Doc did stuff MJ can't do.
The finger roll layup at 2:25 is just gorgeous!
Wilt Chamberlain would have said "Now that's what I'm talking about!" Now that is what I call a finger roll!!!! LOL!!!!
Dr. J was actually at his best playing for the Nets in the ABA
When Doc was with the Nets he had his athletic youth, less stars demanding the touches, and the green light. As a result, that run in the ABA was one of the greatest we have ever seen from any player in any era.
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@@jingqi9106 greenlight baby ⚡🇨🇦
something about the ABA ,the dr, and others, and the painted ball---magical
I read your comment and thought, "Yes, he's so right." The ABA years were fantastic. NBA basketball today is dull by comparison. I got to see the Nets in 1974 against the Pacers at Nassau Coliseum and it was incredible.
Legendary!
When Julius came into the NBA and joined George McGinnis,Doug Collins,World B Free and Daryl Dawkins in Philly,that was just as large,maybe even larger than LeBron joining the Heat.I will say that it was larger due to the fact that the two leagues merged in 1976.Just think there was no social media,and no ESPN.Just local TV and game of the week on CBS with Brent Musberger.
This is the REAL DR J!! The guy in Philly.....especially after 1980 was Julius Erving lite.. ..still awesome but this dude here is why he should be in more GOAT convos....NOT saying he is GOAT...just in the convo lol
what a joke, Dr j is a one trick pony. tell me one 20 foot jump shot Dr j ever took . never. this guy is revered by so many . people love what? that he takes lay ups and dunks and never has a jump shot . how can he be goat. please someone out here let me know how u can be the best of all time and do lay ups all day long.
Quite a few, but dunks make highlights. and no, he wasn't a 3 pt marksman. so what? and if he's so one dimensional. how does he gave a career 24 of avg in both leagues? and who's your favorite player?
24 Ave of all dunks , he had quick first step to the basket. he would lay it up or dunk. don't compare j game to Micheal jordan game not even close. Dr had no jump shot he lost even more faith in his jumper as he got older. Mike always had jump shot Ave 37points in his 2nd year in league
kevin araujo One more thing Michael Jordan didn't have an outside shot tell in his mid-career which would have been in the nineties when he started winning championships. I don't know where you get he could shoot jumpers in his second year, you're a moron!
so how did he average 37 points a game in that year . actually it was his 3rd year cause his second year he was out with foot injury. no one averages 37 points a game without a good jump shot. don't resort to call people names just because u don't agree with them , this makes u into a coward. don't be mad cause Mike is the best
it's amazing dr's stats in those ABA finals!he avg 38p-14 reb-6ass vs bobby jones,one of the best defenders in the history of ABA and NBA!prime dr was even more dominant than lebron!drj had 3 rings, 2 in ABA,1 in NBA,4 mvp.3 in ABA 1 in NBA,he led 76ers byhimself in 3 nba finals vs all-star lakers!i think he deserves more to be consider in top 10-15 players ever and not olny the first high-flyer!he was also great defender.he avg 2stals and 2 blocks in his career and almost 51fg%!
He’s my small forward on my all-time team.
Yeah 11 years ago this made sense.
DR.J...G.O.A.T.
The Nets haven't been the same since. Vintage Dr. J!
That thing Julius did at 3:50 was unbelievable.
Watching his ABA games is what got me to play basketball and I still play this very day at age 36.
How old were you lol
@@TheUaclown123 Classic Sports channel my man.
A_Man_Named_Jayne word same
Brings back great memories. I remember listening to this game on the radio as a teen in NYC. You couldn't get the home games on TV back then. Guard John Williamson had the quarter of his life in that 4th quarter scoring 16 of his 28 points. When the Nets acquired Nate "Tiny" Archibald, for sure, I thought they'd win a championship in their first year in the NBA. That is, until they had to sell Julius Erving to the 76ers. With a few exceptions, the Nets have been pretty much cursed ever since.
woah how old are you?
Fred madera I just turned 54. Time keeps on slipping into the future.
+scottty500 how good was Doc in the ABA really? I did not start watching him until 1979.
Saw your comment about listening to the Nets on the radio. In the early 70s, when Rick Barry was still with the team, you could hear the games on WHN AM radio. The announcer use to say, "WHN...We Have the Nets." I remember Al Albert was the announcer. I remember listening to the 1972 playoffs on the radio.
I was lucky enough to be an ABA fan and live in the New York City area back in the 1970s. I saw Julius Erving and the Nets at Nassau Coliseum in 1974 against the Indiana Pacers. No problem getting tickets, the arena was mostly empty. But what great basketball, and what a great team! Erving was just incredible--he made the impossible look routine. I've always felt that his best years were with the Nets. It was a big mistake for Roy Boe to sell his contract to the 76ers; the Nets were never the same afterwards. And the moves to New Jersey and now Brooklyn were asinine. The Nets should have stayed on Long Island and rebuilt there. Oh, and the classic red, white, and blue racing stripe Nets uniform from the 1970s is still the coolest ever.
Roy Boe did everything he could to keep Dr J. He didnt have enough money to pay the $3.2 "expansion" fee the NBA charged him and the other 3 ABA clubs. Plus Doc wanted a new contract. Allegedly, after the merger, Doc was supposed to get a new contract from the Nets, Roy Boe either wouldnt(or couldnt) do it so Doc sat out and refused to report to training camp. Doc and the Nets were at an impasse. The Sixers(and Knicks) were interested in acquiring Doc but New York didnt want to pay(not because they couldnt). Meanwhile the NBA wanted their $3.2 mil and the deadline was looming so Roy Boe HAD to make a decision. A few days before the 1976-77 regular season, he was sold to Philly for over $6 million. Roy Boe used part of that money to pay the 4 plus million indemnification fee to the Knicks. The Sixers owner gave him a "new" contract and the rest was history.
2:34 You just don't see this kind of moves anymore. How spectacular!
This is the real Dr. J!!! Too bad only few people got to him. I remember when I was a little kid living the South Bronx, and the word on the street (not in the newspapers, tv or radio) was "There is dude named Dr. J who is totally awesome!!! They said he plays for the Virginia Squires in the new ABA league!!!! I am so glad I got to see the Real Dr. J!!!!
that move @ 3.50. crazy! by far my favourite player of all time.
When Julius came over to the NBA,fans got only a few glimpses of the the real Doctor.Had this Net team came into the NBA as is,it would have been a whole lot different.He was still great,but took a little bit of a back seat once he got to Philly especially his first two seasons.
That's true because the coach of the Sixers when they had Doc, McGinnis, and Doug Collins, wanted those 3 players to have equal touches. When Doc was with the Nets, he had the green light and was the go to guy and all the rest were role players.
Yo his playing skills was smooth #crazy
Poetry in slow motion at 2:30.
Nobody knows how great this guy was in the ABA. In these playoffs he made 13.1 field goals per game on 53.3% shooting!!!
Thanks for the footage. Love Doc!
the ABA had a 3 point line before the NBA did. You can credit George Mikan for this. The NBA adopted this in 1980 as im sure you know.
The man was a true BADASS! Deified gravity! I loved the way he would palm the ball with those ABA colors. I got to go to the Denver Nuggets Basketabll summer camp in 1976 and 77. Larry Brown sais he was going to send us kids home (8th Grade) for stopping practice and just staring in awe at the Fort Collins HS cheerleaders. Ahh good times!!
I remember this game when I was a kid, what they didn't show was Dr. J taking off from the top of the key (not the free throw line) and dunked.
Thank you..I missed this😆🇨🇦
I loved the Nets back then because of Dr. J.
George Vreeland Hill
To this day my favorite player of all time
Anyway great being able to watch him in his prime. Thanks for posting it.
@ 3:53 Thing of beauty.
Julius was the Lebron of the ABA. An absolute monster on both sides of the floor
Except that LeBron betrays his teammates every chance that he gets. With the possible exception of George McGuiness, Erving's teammates loved playing with him.
@@dharmabeachbum6330 dumbass
great vid, 2 or 3 transcendent plays by Dr J
Dr J was the MJ of the ABA.
Remember listening on the radio over came huge dificet, Doc was in his Prime in that season, The country never saw That NY Net team
In the NBA, Irving was just another good player without that killer instinct to clutch shoot his way to a win. But he is legendary for his moves and NBA/ABA merger. The Dr is a total class act for integrating the 2 leagues into one, and the expansion he promoted well. People came JUST to see the Dr do something special and he didn't disappoint..
Amazing from start to finish in the ABA.
Great footage... Thanks for posting this.
Second player to reach 30,000 points .
true
the aba invented the three point line,red auerbach and others in the nba thought it was a gimmick and were slow to adopt it
DICKHEAD auerbach warmed up to it when larry TURD arrived in bahSTAIN. TURD'S rookie year, auerbach saw to it the nba adopted it.
Jordan never made crazy wind mill lay ins like that. OMG!
Dr j was the best player ever the father of Jordan and kobe
The Doctor was at his peak in the Mid 70s
Doc posterized the Nuggets before Posterizing was cool!
U can't stop dr.j
@theSCLi that layup was sick!! Just from the flip of his wrist it's goes in lol like nothing
31 + 19 !! A 7 feet c ? No, a sf !!!
He looks like he's bouncing off a trampoline sometimes...a true original!
jordan never made any move that Doc didn't do first.
Absolutely agree with you there!
@@harnessworx3046 what move other then the abbilty to palm the ball and do fancy layups did mj stole? mj jumpshot was better, handels post game were all better.
2 fantastic team nets 1976 strong team
Julius the Dr Errrrrrving
Who was that ref who kept dancing every time he called a foul? "Can-can, two shots!"
This guy was better than Lebron
lol
Kevin Huang I agree. 'J' is highly underrated.
@@VictorLionsTV yup. Young folk only about scoring. That is 1 dimension...and can u score when it counts...is the real question. MANY FANS DO NOT KNOW THAT JULIUS MADE A CONCSCIENCE DECISION TO TAKE LESS SHOTS AND NOT BE A 30 POINT AVERAGE IN PHILLY. IT WASN'T THAT COULD NOT DO IT. IN 1980 27 A GAME 30 YRS OLD. AT 21 HE AVERAGE 27.3. HIS FG PERCENTAGE WAS HIGHER AT 30 WITH LESS SHOTS. IF HE PLAYED TODAY...WITH RECKLESS ABANDON HE WOULD DOMINANT. IN OTHER WORDS THE SAME STUFF HE DID THEN...THEY WOULD SAY NOW...PEOPLE WOULD SAY WHOAAA....WHO IS THIS? HE WAS A FREAK WITH THE BALL. HIS HANDS HIS JUMP HIS AIR TIME WITH HIS 6'7 FRAME WOULD BE OFF THE CHARTS. THEY DONT PLAY DEFENSE TODAY. EVERYBODY KISSING. HE WOULD HOUSE CALL EVERYBODY.
@@VictorLionsTV OMG! LMFAO LOUDLY. IM NOT SURE IT WOULD BE HIGH. BUT HE WOULD HAVE MULTIPLE GAMES OVER A SEASON WHERE IT WOULD BE LIKE THAT. I WATCHED HIM IN THE ABA FOR THE NETS AND IT WAS A PLEASURE.
Wikipedia on owner Roy Boe States he offered to trade Julius in exchange for the territorial 4.8 owed to the Garden. I saw a documentary on the ABA that because Mr. Irving demanded a new contract forcing Boe to trade him.
You might be correct, but it wouldn't surprise me that Knicks brass knew Boe's financial woes (no pun intended) and thought they could get the nearly 5M and use it to pay the Doctor, perhaps overconfident that they would wind up with him anyway, because of the Nets $ issues.
Erving toned down his game when he entered the NBA because it was suggested that playing with guys like McGinnis, Doug Collins, Lloyd Free etc that the Sixers didn't need for him to be that dominant but play more of a team oriented style...
Dude had big hands
damn he lived in the paint
3:50
Nobody in NBA now has the finger tip roll like Dr J or George Gervin.
He was unplayable in those days. Defenders had no chance.
Norm Drucker: The Dancing Referee!
Well remember the Knicks wanted Dr J but they did not have the rights to him in the 1st place. They lost a 1st round draft pick because of this mess. That was how Dr J ended up with Sixers.
That was George McGinnis the prior year. Larry O'Brien, the best commish the NBA ever had, said 'no can do' to the the knicks trying to skirt the rules.
That shot that didn’t count at 3:57 ! 🙃
I thought it wasn't until the mid 1980's
Such a killer in those days.
More players that can palm the ball need to finish like Dr. J. It just seems more effective to me.
big ass hands!! looks like hes handling a soft ball lol
Like this year brooklyn nets will take it
khaled alotaibi lmao y'all actually garbage now thanks for giving Boston you picks tho
It's Clarence
Kawhi's dad
Roy Boe had to sell Dr. J to an NBA team because it cost him 3.2 million to enter the NBA and another 4.8 million to pay the invasion penalty to MSG, so Roy Boe offered Dr. J to the Knicks in exchange for not having to pay the 4.8M. The Knicks said "NO" (Idiots!) Boe contemplated selling off star NY Islanders players off his NHL team to help pay the 8M and eventually Julius went to the Sixers and the NBA and NHL realized he was in over his head and strong armed Boe into giving up both teams.
#13 on the nuggets lol
Played more like a pf
All the aba does is dunks and layups
Dr. J's free throw shot sure was ugly tho haha
yah , and he had no jump shot and people that grew up watching talk about how he is so great. great at what dunking. and also Dr j never has anything good to say about jordan and Jordan had the whole package. jump shot, free throw, fast of the dribble either hand, a killer scorer, and unstoppable at with back to the basket which is hardest shot in basketball. please j don't compare to jordan.
kevin araujo God you're a moron go watch some more film hater!
@@kevinaraujo4945 he blocked more shots and shot a better % than MJ. He played higher above the rim consistently. MJ doesn't impress Doc. Doc did stuff MJ can't do.
Ridiculous. Filthy. Nasty.
the most unbelievable player in nba, how many dunk he did it in a single game?