It would be hard not to be envious of Bill Melchionni's basketball career. What a ride. From starring as a guard at Bishop Eustace Prep in his hometown of Pennsauken, New Jersey, to becoming a ...

Julius Erving, known to most as “Dr. J”, is one of the greatest NBA players of all time and helped usher in a whole new and ...

George Gervin says the NBA’s popularity was saved by bringing in players like him and Julius Erving from the ABA.

Long before there was Barclays Center or the black and white merchandise, there were the New Jersey (later New York) Americans (later Nets), playing with ABA red, white and blue basketballs. They ...

Before the NBA was the biggest basketball league in the world, it faced tough competition at home from none other than the ABA and its golden child, Julius Erving. The American Basketball Association, ...

Tim Bassett can tell a good basketball story. The 1973-'74 basketball season was the first of seven professional seasons for Bassett. At 6'8 225lb, the kid from Washington,DC, was positioned either at ...

Basketball fans didn’t quite know what to expect in February when the NBA hosted its annual All-Star weekend festivities. There was a new format for the game. First, each of the first three quarters ...

The 1970s opened with two major additions to the Nets franchise. Lou Carnesecca arrived as head coach and the team acquired Rick Barry. At 22 years old, Barry had been the NBA’s leading scorer with 35 ...

Dennis Murphy, a Fullerton businessman whose visionary sports ventures included co-founding the American Basketball Assn., World Hockey Assn., World Team Tennis and Roller Hockey International, died ...

NBA TV did its best to fill the void between NBA Finals games with an extremely intriguing documentary about Julius Erving, simply titled The Doctor. We got to go on a trip through every aspect of Dr.

"I'd go through the middle -- make the ball disappear, switch hands -- do something magical with it. The guy who was announcing the game kept calling me a lot of different nicknames, like Houdini or ...