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36 Years Ago Today, Dr. J Scored The Coolest Basket In NBA HistoryOn May 11, 1980, in the fourth quarter of Game 4 of the NBA Finals, Julius Erving drove around Mark Landsberger, who managed to pin him under the basket with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s help. But he easily evaded both defenders with the most audacious layup I’ve ever seen in the NBA, swooping up from unde...

"This Doctor Can Operate": Dr. J, Pistol Pete, And The Sexual RevolutionExcerpted from Dr. J: The Autobiography, available now from Harper Collins....

The Good DoctorThere is a long, engaging excerpt from Dr. J's new book (written with the talented Karl Taro Greenfeld) over at Grantland. Worth checking out, for sure....

Old Photo: Dr. J And John Havlicek, Shirtless And Wearing Sombreros

We know nothing about the origin of this photo of Julius Erving and John Havlicek, but we love it. It was tweeted this morning by SLAM associate editor Adam Figman, who says it shows the two retired NBA legends "chilling very hard in Mexico, 1977." And that much is demonstrably true: The Doctor and ...

How Dr. J Blackified Pro Ball, Found Himself, And Stayed Eternally Cool

Originally published in Esquire in February 1985 and anthologized in Teenage Hipster in the Modern World, a stellar collection of Mark Jacobson's non-fiction. Reprinted here with the author's permission....

You Need that Spalding Touch

Fans of a certain age will remember this ad...it was in the back of almost every Marvel and DC comic for years. ...