When I went to Philadelphia I was 26 years old and really sitting on top of the world. Family life, a professional career, plenty of friends and associates, and a good reputation, a wish list that could be the envy of many.

Erving was U. But he's the professor and he was the first one to call me "the doctor. He played three exhibition games with the Hawks until because of a legal injunction he was obliged by a three-judge panel to return to the ABA Squires.

He is the fifth-highest scorer in professional basketball history with 30026 points (NBA and ABA combined). Erving was inducted in 1993 into the Basketball Hall of Fame and was also named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time team. Erving won three championships four Most Valuable Player Awards and three scoring titles with the ABA's Virginia Squires and New York Nets (now the NBA's Brooklyn Nets) and the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers.