{"id":1265,"date":"2013-05-27T09:43:12","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T14:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauleide.com\/?p=1265"},"modified":"2020-10-03T20:04:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-04T01:04:35","slug":"today-in-nba-history-1981-dr-j-julius-erving-named-mvp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/today-in-nba-history-1981-dr-j-julius-erving-named-mvp\/","title":{"rendered":"Today In NBA History 1981: &#8220;Dr. J&#8221; Julius Erving Named MVP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4688 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dr-J-Larry-Bird.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"593\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dr-J-Larry-Bird.jpeg 641w, https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dr-J-Larry-Bird-600x555.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4688 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dr-J-Larry-Bird.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dr-J-Larry-Bird.jpeg 641w, https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dr-J-Larry-Bird-600x555.jpeg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h2>Today in 1981, Dr. J was king.<\/h2>\n<p>Julius Erving of the Philadelphia 76ers was named the NBA\u2019s Most Valuable Player, making him the only player to win MVP honors in both the NBA and the ABA.<\/p>\n<p>To this day, only a handful of players have revolutionized the entire game, not just the NBA, the way Dr. J did. And not just in terms of on the court success, of which he had plenty, but in terms of personal style. Dr. J was the alpha male of his era and even if you knew nothing about basketball, just seeing the way he floated across the court, told you he was the man everyone else wanted to be.<\/p>\n<p>Erving won three championships, four Most Valuable Player Awards, and three scoring titles with the ABA&#8217;s Virginia Squires and New York Nets (now the NBA&#8217;s Brooklyn Nets) and the NBA&#8217;s Philadelphia 76ers. He is the fifth-highest scorer in professional basketball history with 30,026 points (NBA and ABA combined).<\/p>\n<p>And he wasn&#8217;t just a finesse scoring type of player- Dr J was mean and reflected the era in which he played.<\/p>\n<h2>Erving was inducted in 1993 into the Basketball Hall of Fame and was also named to the NBA&#8217;s 50th Anniversary All-Time team. In 1994, Dr. J was named by <i>Sports Illustrated<\/i> as one of the 40 most important athletes of all time.<\/h2>\n<p>For crying out loud, the term &#8220;slam&#8221;\u00a0dunk was coined to describe the way Erving attacked the rim.<\/p>\n<p>Before him, dunking was a practice usually among big men to show their dominance, strength and physicality.<\/p>\n<p>There was no art or style to it. The dunk was judged by many as style over substance and unsportsmanlike.<\/p>\n<p>Erving, however, changed that misconception and turned the dunk into the most exciting, expressive shot in the game. The &#8220;slam dunk&#8221; became an art form and came to help popularize the sport.<\/p>\n<p>With no Dr. J, there would be no Michael Jordan, no Charles Barkley, no Kobe, and certainly no LeBron James.<\/p>\n<h3>Related NBA Content:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dallas Mavericks \u201cTriple J Ranch\u201d &#8211; A Love That Could Never Be<\/li>\n<li>DRAM On LeBron James Sprite Cranberry Commercial, NBA2K, Legend Of \u201cBubbaChuck\u201d Allen Iverson<\/li>\n<li>Best Tall Freak: Manute Bol vs. Shawn Bradley vs. Gheorge Muresan vs. Rik Smits<\/li>\n<li>Best NBA Players Ever: Michael Jordan #1, Who Is #2?<\/li>\n<li>Sitting Down With Spider: NBA Champ John Salley Talks All Things Father\u2019s Day<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in 1981, Dr. J was king. 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