Like so many kids, Dr. J is the athlete that inspired me to play basketball. Knew I would never ever be able to do what he did, but to run, and enjoy the game, and take joy in its beauty. Doc was the man!
An incredibly gifted athlete (there have been many) and a classy gentleman (there have been fewer). To be both is extremely rare. Barry Sanders is another.
Many ABA players were superior to NBA players: Julius, Moses, Bobby Jones, Artis Gilmore, Marvin '' Bad News'' Barnes, David Thompson, Rick Barry, Dan Issel, Connie Hawkins, Charlie Scott, Spencer Haywood, Swen Nater, Larry '' Mister K'' Kenon, Ron Boone, Louie Dampier, James Silas, Willie Wise, Mack Calvin, George Gervin, Zelmo Beaty, Roger Brown, Jimmy Jones, Mel Daniels, Super John Williamson, and Brian Taylor among others! That's all I can recollect at this time.
Definitely an ABA dunk. Saw a few of those when I watched a few Virginia Squires games when I lived in Newport News as a kid in the early 70's. It wasn’t like it is now with everyone dunking all the time. Back then one would see a few, and when you did, it was exciting. Of course the Dr. was the most exciting of all.
I was at this game and it completely turned the game around. It was a low scoring game up to that point and the building exploded when he dunked in Dave Cowens' face. Feel so lucky to have lived in Philly during the Dr J era.
Doc wasn't the best player to ever play, but for me he was the most ENTERTAINING player I've ever watched, including Michael Jordan. It was like a séance waiting for Doc to perform some spectacular dunk over someone. That was his forte - dunking over people. He lived for that and perhaps was the best at that in history.
He literally did that every game, he put a huge spotlight on the NBA in his day because of his dunking. Before doc the NBA was relegated to UHF channels.
He had a dunk in game 7 of the 82 eastern division championship. It set the tone for the win. Sixers lost game 6 at Philly and went to Boston, everyone including me thought the Sixers were done. Dr. J and Andrew Toney copped a tude and demolished the Celtics in the garden. Even the Celts fans were impressed.
I remember this vividly. The play before this, Doc had a fastbreak and Cowens was the only defender back. Cowens hacked him, preventing him from getting the the basket. There was no foul call, and Doc backed the ball out. The very next play, he left no doubt!
I personally believe his 2 greatest slams were on Elvin Hayes, but no video footage anywhere! I seen the games. Doc said it himself, his best was on Elvin. Doc took off from free throw and threw it down on E!!!
Kurt Adams It's not available to my knowledge as well. I called the nba archives office and only former player's can get game copies. I hope one day someone post those dunks on Elvin Hayes.
TheWpruden ...JULIUS WINFIELD ERVING II has more highlights than everyone. Over half of those highlights are missing...on purpose maybe? However, I remembered this game and Doc's dunk on Big E. Doc jumped higher than the Human Highlight, Air Jordan, Bron and Air Canada. PERIOD!!!
The Dr was just so elegant. He’d extend his arm to hold the ball up and out so everyone can see it, or palm it while rotating it as he was airborn. What an outlier because of how effortless it all seemed. No one came close to the Dr.
Celtics had to call time out to regroup, I remember. Game was a real tight one, won by 76ers by score or something like 77-73, ousting the defending champion Celtics in a real tight series.
@@adelheidgg 50 years later. No comparison. If the Dr had the advancements in training, conditioning and nutrition these recent players have there would be no camparison at all.
I grew up in San Fran so didn't get to see a lot of Dr. J on TV, but read about him in Sports Illustrated. He and 76ers came thru Golden State in 1983 and we went and watched the game. He scored like 35 points in only 15-20 minutes. He was insanely good and had 3 feet under his feet on jump shots. Nobody on the warriors could cover him. Had 5-6 dunks that looked like he was just floating. I'm shocked that he doesn't get way more publicity nowadays. His most productive years were wasted in the ABA. You should try watching some of his 1970s games - they're on youtube or people have private dvds for sale. I think he averaged 42 ppg in a couple ABA seasons. I have seen some absolute monster dunks that he had in ABA that are better than the Cowens and Michael Cooper dunks.
If Dr. J dunked over someone who fell he would NEVER then glare down at them to rub salt in the wound as LeBron always does. Julius was too cool for that. He always looked like he'd dunked amazingly thousands of times before and would do thousands no more.
Brett Shepherd sad but true . The young people truly believe all Dr.J could do is Dunk .Over 30,000 pts on dunks . No way . The man was a Great Basketball player
Love the doc..lived in a small northern Ontario Canada town and went to school every day 17 yrs old with dr j attitude..not rich underdog but I got a guy ..I look up to..
I'm a tried and true Celtic fan from the old days, but The Doc was simply wonderful, an incredible player of immense talent, and one faboulous guy off the court.
I never seen that dunk by Doc man. That was absolutely awesome!!! Dr. J was the first basketball player I liked growing up as a kid in the 1980's. That was sensational man, wow!
PM's Far-Out Grooviness i came your tube feature remembering explicitly Dr. doing another dunk on Cowens in the 1977 ECF.thats all.Im a great fan of the Doc, even before i lived in Philly, but i also loved Cowens game as an undersized Center.thats all.iwasnt knocking your work, or wasnt clear in my comment.thnx for your creativity.P.S. (remember letter writing?) now , after reading other comments...i guess this was the play because i remember the crowd going wild.its amazing how memory is undependable on some matters.thnx again
Julius Erving DEFINES basketball, in exactly the same way Muhammad Ali defines boxing. There was no one like him before his time and no one to come along since.....the Funky Fly Freshest man to ever handle a basketball. That's not my opinion....That's Just The Way It Is. Deal With It.
I remember that dunk vividly. There was another one where poor Dave Cowens waited under the basket- pumping himself to jump once...twice...and three times before Dr. J cruelly swooped in from on high and dunked over him. Remember that Julius has dunked over pretty much everybody, including people are taller than Cowens - Kareem, Walton, Artis Gilmore, etc. I wonder how he would've fared against Wilt (pretty sure Wilt would've blocked some of J's attempts; or maybe Shaq or Daryl Dawkins?). Did anyone EVER block Julius when he was in full flight? I've looked but never found the answer to that. If I could ask Doc one question, that would be it.
Yes, it happened by Dan Roundfield one night in the Omni in last minute of a tight game. Doc flew right down middle to slam and Roundfield utterly rejected him! On the ensuing Hawks play game winner Roundfield shot the game winner from @ 5' and Doc rejected it soundle to preserve a 1 or 2pt win. A friend and I were big fans and watched on TBS I think. I've never seen the transaction replayed again. 😢
@@patrickhorne4348 I'd love to see the video on that if you have it! That's a question I had prepared for Doc if by some farfetched chance I ever ran into him. It would be interesting to see what he said.
He did it so many times, that people forget that Doc literally invented the modern offensive game. While being double and triple teamed his entire career.
Ah, yes, proof that there _was_ in fact a time in NBA history when defenders would actually *do their job.* Yes, there actually _was_ an era when players still had the *spine* to defend the basket, and didn’t let a fear of embarrassment soften their game. Let’s be clear about this: although Dave Cowens was a great player in his own right, it was almost a certainty that Doctor J was going to make him absolutely _eat_ that dunk-something Dave probably knew himself. Still, he put forth a concerted defensive effort, even knowing it would likely fail. He was man enough to compete fully for the sake of a *team win,* and unlike the comparatively soft, fake-tough-guys of today’s game, smart enough to know that it is more important than image. Oh, wow, do I ever miss the days when this sport didn’t suck.
Just goes to show you its all about old vs new, and the contrast between what was, and what is, that gets everyone excited. That dunk would barely wake anyone up today let alone get them on their feet.
as an NBA fan that has Michael Jordan , bird, magic, ranking high above Dr j I have to say I recall Dr J in his twilight of his career being very fundamentally sound, he played defense , rebounded & played within his limits not forcing plays that he could no longer do. I guess I'm saying he was an all around player & gave great effort. The only time he shocked the hell out of me was by grabbing bird by the throat. Bird was shocked as well lol, other than that Dr j was a class act on the court.
The most forgotten dunk and the one least seen except for local television, was the windmill dunk over Elvin Hayes against the Bullets while stationary in the lane. Doc was standing with the ball at least halfway between the free throw line and the front of the rim when this happened. It was against the Washington Bullets. I cannot find ANY tape of this game as at the time the Sixers away games were broadcast on channel 48 at the time. The extension and the violence of that dunk by even today’s standards was incomprehensible. It was during his first year as a Sixer. To this day, I haven’t seen another NBA player do what “The Doctor “ did in that game.
YESSH! I REMEMBER ONLY WHEN BUT WHERE I WAS AT THE TIME I SAW THAT ONE LIVE ON TV. IT WAS A SUNNY SPRING AFTERNOON 1977 I WAS I HARLEM WITH SOME GOOD FRIENDS IN AN APARTMENT IN HARLEM IT AN EARLY ROUND PLAYOFF GAME. IT ALSO THE FIRST YEAR OF THE ABA -NBA MERGER AND THE DR. J WAS MAKING HIS ROOKIE IN THE NBA THAT WAS ON DAVE COWENS OF BOSTON IN PHONE PHILADELPHIA!
Like so many kids, Dr. J is the athlete that inspired me to play basketball. Knew I would never ever be able to do what he did, but to run, and enjoy the game, and take joy in its beauty. Doc was the man!
Scottie Pippen credits Dr J as his inspiration in Last Dance. No big surprise.
Well said !!!
I sure haven't forgotten. I was a HUGE Dave Cowens fan so that hurt...but it hurt so good....
Dr J was my favorite player growing up as kid in the 70’s and 80’s!
His dunks are masterpieces...
Well said
@@barryfederovitch6722 Really works of art. Others threw down some great dunks from time to time, but for Julius, it was a matter of course.
Dr J What an awesome talent. So glad I got a chance to watch him play.
An incredibly gifted athlete (there have been many) and a classy gentleman (there have been fewer). To be both is extremely rare. Barry Sanders is another.
This is Doc's FU to all those who said ABA guys weren't as good as the NBA guys.
Many ABA players were superior to NBA players: Julius, Moses, Bobby Jones, Artis Gilmore, Marvin '' Bad News'' Barnes, David Thompson, Rick Barry, Dan Issel, Connie Hawkins, Charlie Scott, Spencer Haywood, Swen Nater, Larry '' Mister K'' Kenon, Ron Boone, Louie Dampier, James Silas, Willie Wise, Mack Calvin, George Gervin, Zelmo Beaty, Roger Brown, Jimmy Jones, Mel Daniels, Super John Williamson, and Brian Taylor among others! That's all I can recollect at this time.
@@MrGoldenthroat you forgot George The Iceman Gervin bro...
@@panama8009 and George McGinnis
Definitely an ABA dunk. Saw a few of those when I watched a few Virginia Squires games when I lived in Newport News as a kid in the early 70's. It wasn’t like it is now with everyone dunking all the time. Back then one would see a few, and when you did, it was exciting. Of course the Dr. was the most exciting of all.
Nobody said that.
Man that never gets old
Two Top-50 guys in that frame; the Doctor and Dave Cowens. Wasn't in Cowens' nature to back down, even against Dr. J. He knew what was coming.
Dr.J is the Baddest Man to ever play the game and was so smooth.
Hey man you ain't bullin.
Yes, smooth is the thing.
Jordan's style was more explosive and also more mechanical looking.
Facts
Bro look at his competition 😝
Yeah
Electricfiying , Explosive no one combined grace and power like the DOC.
I was at this game and it completely turned the game around. It was a low scoring game up to that point and the building exploded when he dunked in Dave Cowens' face. Feel so lucky to have lived in Philly during the Dr J era.
Doc wasn't the best player to ever play, but for me he was the most ENTERTAINING player I've ever watched, including Michael Jordan. It was like a séance waiting for Doc to perform some spectacular dunk over someone. That was his forte - dunking over people. He lived for that and perhaps was the best at that in history.
Perfectly said, Thanks
Dr. J was pretty dang awesome!
The best dunker of all time period
Coolest dude to ever play in the NBA.
I agree, a class act
My hoops idol during the 70s.
The dunk from Doctor J was spectacular, the rebound and outlet pass from George Mcginnis was pretty good too.
Dr j did the soul train dunk over cowens
Well dam...he REALLY did
Ha!
He literally did that every game, he put a huge spotlight on the NBA in his day because of his dunking. Before doc the NBA was relegated to UHF channels.
He had a dunk in game 7 of the 82 eastern division championship. It set the tone for the win.
Sixers lost game 6 at Philly and went to Boston, everyone including me thought the Sixers were done. Dr. J and Andrew Toney copped a tude and demolished the Celtics in the garden. Even the Celts fans were impressed.
Andrew Toney people think I'm crazy when I say I would choose him over Allen Iverson
Dr. can play in any era. Poerty in motion with style and grace. The Goat
I remember this vividly. The play before this, Doc had a fastbreak and Cowens was the only defender back. Cowens hacked him, preventing him from getting the the basket. There was no foul call, and Doc backed the ball out. The very next play, he left no doubt!
I personally believe his 2 greatest slams were on Elvin Hayes, but no video footage anywhere! I seen the games. Doc said it himself, his best was on Elvin.
Doc took off from free throw and threw it down on E!!!
TheWpruden I've been looking for that dunk . Cant find it anywhere. SMDH
Kurt Adams
It's not available to my knowledge as well.
I called the nba archives office and only former player's can get game copies.
I hope one day someone post those dunks on Elvin Hayes.
Wasn't Big E upset after Doc dunked on him?
Upset and embarrassed!!!!
TheWpruden ...JULIUS WINFIELD ERVING II has more highlights than everyone. Over half of those highlights are missing...on purpose maybe? However, I remembered this game and Doc's dunk on Big E. Doc jumped higher than the Human Highlight, Air Jordan, Bron and Air Canada. PERIOD!!!
I was born in 64 grew up in the 70's and THAT man was my hero,..I just wanted a small percentage of his ability,..
The guys who dunk today don't compare to Dr. J. He also had moves that almost no one could duplicate!
The Dr was just so elegant. He’d extend his arm to hold the ball up and out so everyone can see it, or palm it while rotating it as he was airborn. What an outlier because of how effortless it all seemed. No one came close to the Dr.
Wilt and Dr J are the GOATS
Celtics had to call time out to regroup, I remember. Game was a real tight one, won by 76ers by score or something like 77-73, ousting the defending champion Celtics in a real tight series.
83-77
There is NEVER a forgotten Dr J dunk !
GREAT dunk by Doc but the ferocious rebound and outlet pass by George McGinnis were pretty damn good as well!
Dr J was truly ahead of his time
Doc didn't care if you were a center or a guard. You were getting dunked on ferociously.
DOC POSTERIZING BIG D. INCREDIBLY BREATHTAKING!!!
The Doc is easily the greatest in-game dunker of all time. He has a lot notches on his belt from guys who tried to rise to the challenged.
No
Big Mac to the Dr. awesome.I remember this game like it was yesterday.Thanks for sharing
Exactly I wish they would replay all the games of drjays first year in the NBA I would watch every one of them
Dr. J knew how to dunk with class, hard to explain. Even Jordan didn't have his level of "dunkness."
Wilt and the Doctor - head and shoulders above all others in basketball history!!!
Russell, Kareem & Jordan.
In athleticism maybe. But even now there are much athletic players than the Doctor.
@@tomsinsky5548 Russell is a defensive player
Please don't make these LeBron fans start crying 😢
@@adelheidgg 50 years later. No comparison. If the Dr had the advancements in training, conditioning and nutrition these recent players have there would be no camparison at all.
Dr J is one of those guys whod succeed in any era...guys amazing
Missed this dunk...man when he statue and liberated your ass...you were left standing in a
Moment of shock and awe...
The one on Bill Walton is worse
@@1990758
That probably killed a few people in attendance that night...heart attack..
Charlie Scott with the missed finger roll.....he was amazing in his day.As a Celtic hater I have to say the 1977 roster was loaded....
NOBODY dunks, finger rolls, glides,...like Dr. J
If only you had seen Elgin Baylor...
@@KSmall109CAB
Only highlights. I'll watch some more. Doc is my all time sports idol.
that Doc dunk was so nasty, the Celtics had to call timeout... LOL
We used to call Erving's dunks facials!
The same happened just after the "move" against Lakers in 1980 finals: they had to call timeout, as well
@@Hoolaballoolol that timeout was for prayer cuz they witnessed someone float. Lay it in from out of bounds. Over defenders.
Loved the Dr.!
I grew up in San Fran so didn't get to see a lot of Dr. J on TV, but read about him in Sports Illustrated. He and 76ers came thru Golden State in 1983 and we went and watched the game. He scored like 35 points in only 15-20 minutes. He was insanely good and had 3 feet under his feet on jump shots. Nobody on the warriors could cover him. Had 5-6 dunks that looked like he was just floating. I'm shocked that he doesn't get way more publicity nowadays. His most productive years were wasted in the ABA. You should try watching some of his 1970s games - they're on youtube or people have private dvds for sale. I think he averaged 42 ppg in a couple ABA seasons. I have seen some absolute monster dunks that he had in ABA that are better than the Cowens and Michael Cooper dunks.
If Dr. J dunked over someone who fell he would NEVER then glare down at them to rub salt in the wound as LeBron always does. Julius was too cool for that. He always looked like he'd dunked amazingly thousands of times before and would do thousands no more.
THE DOCTAH....SO UNAPPRECIATED
Brett Shepherd sad but true . The young people truly believe all Dr.J could do is Dunk .Over 30,000 pts on dunks . No way . The man was a Great Basketball player
AMEN!
DOCTOR!
The DOCTAAAHHHHHHHH!!!
Bird made a fool of Dr J who had Barkley and Malone restrain him.
That was a dirty play
Dr J is the real GOAT
The GOAT in my opinion...
KING KUMARI top 15 player ever and top 3 SF imo
KING KUMARI makes sense u prob watched him as a kid and were in awe tell me if im right
No.
By far
That Afro, knee pad version of Dr J was beyond cool!
And that particular number 6 the one that curve at the top
Totally...
Love the doc..lived in a small northern Ontario Canada town and went to school every day 17 yrs old with dr j attitude..not rich underdog but I got a guy ..I look up to..
@@1990758
Iconic..is there ever going to be another Doctor J...
@@rickrobitaille8809 never
I'm a tried and true Celtic fan from the old days, but The Doc was simply wonderful, an incredible player of immense talent, and one faboulous guy off the court.
Holy shit! I love Dr. J!
Dr. J smooth put Dave Cowens (a 50th NBA anniversary teammate) on a poster
The Doc was better than jordan, bryant or anybody else. And is still a class act.
GOD bless Julias Erving!
I never seen that dunk by Doc man. That was absolutely awesome!!! Dr. J was the first basketball player I liked growing up as a kid in the 1980's. That was sensational man, wow!
I looked this up specifically.1977 eastern conf.final, but this isnt the one....and i dug both cowens and julius, but julius was it for me.
I beg your pardon?
PM's Far-Out Grooviness i came your tube feature remembering explicitly Dr. doing another dunk on Cowens in the 1977 ECF.thats all.Im a great fan of the Doc, even before i lived in Philly, but i also loved Cowens game as an undersized Center.thats all.iwasnt knocking your work, or wasnt clear in my comment.thnx for your creativity.P.S. (remember letter writing?) now , after reading other comments...i guess this was the play because i remember the crowd going wild.its amazing how memory is undependable on some matters.thnx again
you're welcome, no problem
Dr J has huge hands ...and with an athletic ability combined...great dunk...
I met the Dr in 1991 and his hands were the biggest I have ever seen beyond huge
I recall a book I read in elementary school that had an actual sized Doc J handprint and I was like G-WIZ!!!
His hands measured 10" from the bottom of his palm to the tip of his index finger.
THE DOCTOR IS IN!!
He was just beautiful.
When I was a little kid I saw him play for the NY Nets at the Commack Arena. Young as I was, I'll never forget it.
Saw this live on TV as @ 15 yr old. Remember slamming the couch against the wall in disbelief at that play. He was my all time fav.
Doc used to do that 10 times a game in his days with the Nets.
I've seen him do quite a few from foul line, and not in dunk contest
A LEGEND when he played, more of a LEGEND NOW.
At the old spectrum!, man the good ole day's!!!
Big George McGinnis with the rebound and long pass. Dr. J at the 3 and McGinnis at the 4 was a great pair of forwards.
Agreed
that was nasty.
Cowen's, one of the few who had the audacity to believe he could block Dr. J.
Doc looks exactly like the character he played in The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh - great 👍 post.
Julius Erving DEFINES basketball, in exactly the same way Muhammad Ali defines boxing. There was no one like him before his time and no one to come along since.....the Funky Fly Freshest man to ever handle a basketball. That's not my opinion....That's Just The Way It Is. Deal With It.
This is top 5 without a doubt
Exactly but ESPN won't even put this in the top 20
I played with dr.j in my 2k and ahh he was cool but seems much better in real life ijs
Doc just totally disrespected Cowens. Didn't fake did not hesitate. My favorite athlete of all time.
I remember that dunk vividly. There was another one where poor Dave Cowens waited under the basket- pumping himself to jump once...twice...and three times before Dr. J cruelly swooped in from on high and dunked over him. Remember that Julius has dunked over pretty much everybody, including people are taller than Cowens - Kareem, Walton, Artis Gilmore, etc. I wonder how he would've fared against Wilt (pretty sure Wilt would've blocked some of J's attempts; or maybe Shaq or Daryl Dawkins?). Did anyone EVER block Julius when he was in full flight? I've looked but never found the answer to that. If I could ask Doc one question, that would be it.
Yes, it happened by Dan Roundfield one night in the Omni in last minute of a tight game. Doc flew right down middle to slam and Roundfield utterly rejected him! On the ensuing Hawks play game winner Roundfield shot the game winner from @ 5' and Doc rejected it soundle to preserve a 1 or 2pt win.
A friend and I were big fans and watched on TBS I think. I've never seen the transaction replayed again. 😢
@@patrickhorne4348 I'd love to see the video on that if you have it! That's a question I had prepared for Doc if by some farfetched chance I ever ran into him. It would be interesting to see what he said.
He did it so many times, that people forget that Doc literally invented the modern offensive game. While being double and triple teamed his entire career.
And the lack of a 3 point line on the floor..... classic NBA!!
So much better game that way.
Ah, yes, proof that there _was_ in fact a time in NBA history when defenders would actually *do their job.*
Yes, there actually _was_ an era when players still had the *spine* to defend the basket, and didn’t let a fear of embarrassment soften their game.
Let’s be clear about this: although Dave Cowens was a great player in his own right, it was almost a certainty that Doctor J was going to make him absolutely _eat_ that dunk-something Dave probably knew himself. Still, he put forth a concerted defensive effort, even knowing it would likely fail. He was man enough to compete fully for the sake of a *team win,* and unlike the comparatively soft, fake-tough-guys of today’s game, smart enough to know that it is more important than image.
Oh, wow, do I ever miss the days when this sport didn’t suck.
it's not just ego. in today's game you would not only get postered but also get a foul and give him an and one
That what I miss ..players attempting to drive AND score and defenders trying to stop them.
Just goes to show you its all about old vs new, and the contrast between what was, and what is, that gets everyone excited. That dunk would barely wake anyone up today let alone get them on their feet.
@@mattn6591 whatever
That was a sad Celtics team...All time greats and Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe
as an NBA fan that has Michael Jordan , bird, magic, ranking high above Dr j I have to say I recall Dr J in his twilight of his career being very fundamentally sound, he played defense , rebounded & played within his limits not forcing plays that he could no longer do. I guess I'm saying he was an all around player & gave great effort. The only time he shocked the hell out of me was by grabbing bird by the throat. Bird was shocked as well lol, other than that Dr j was a class act on the court.
Bird had it coming.He was a very dirty player.
Always did that in the ABA , almost Every game, The Great Doctor J.......
Classic!
Going to see him play at the Spectrum are some of the best memories of my childhood
Wow, you're right. This dunk is super forgotten. What a posterization!
The most forgotten dunk and the one least seen except for local television, was the windmill dunk over Elvin Hayes against the Bullets while stationary in the lane. Doc was standing with the ball at least halfway between the free throw line and the front of the rim when this happened. It was against the Washington Bullets. I cannot find ANY tape of this game as at the time the Sixers away games were broadcast on channel 48 at the time. The extension and the violence of that dunk by even today’s standards was incomprehensible. It was during his first year as a Sixer. To this day, I haven’t seen another NBA player do what “The Doctor “ did in that game.
Does anyone play today with this kind of style, smoothness and power? Lots of players today have power, but the other two?
Why, Dave Cowens, why.......?
Cowens was a lunchpail player he got paid to have the ball bounce off his head
Dave Cowens gets POSTERIZED!
Right On Cowens, this is arguably better than the dunk on Walton!
DeeNice681 definitely better than Walton.....i think the one over Bobby Gross. . in the same game....is better than Walton.
Which one? lol!
Oh no the one on Walton this worse it was up in Portland and he threw the ball at Bill Walton and Bill Walton is much taller
Man!! I miss watching him play! I cried for years when the Nets let him go to Philly!!
Doctor J in my top 5.
The expression on Cowens face as the Dr. dunks on him is priceless
I remember that game. The Doc was operating and Darryl Dawkins was a beast on the boards!!
Brent Musburger loved The Good Doctor and the Spectrum :)
What was Cowens thinking???? I mean why even jump hell stand back and enjoy the show like everybody else!
Before MJ, there was Dr. J.
These bicentennial uniforms are the best looking of the 76ers uniforms. Very Patriotic.
Cowens was Set-Up, AND he got Punked & Posterized! 😂😅
The ball looks so small I'm his hands ...one of the two best of all time players
YESSH! I REMEMBER ONLY WHEN BUT WHERE I WAS AT THE TIME I SAW THAT ONE LIVE ON TV. IT WAS A SUNNY SPRING AFTERNOON 1977 I WAS I HARLEM WITH SOME GOOD FRIENDS IN AN APARTMENT IN HARLEM IT AN EARLY ROUND PLAYOFF GAME. IT ALSO THE FIRST YEAR OF THE ABA -NBA MERGER AND THE DR. J WAS MAKING HIS ROOKIE IN THE NBA THAT WAS ON DAVE COWENS OF BOSTON IN PHONE PHILADELPHIA!
0:14 HOUSE CALL ON DAVE COWENS!!!