While this year's 3-Point Contest sports five All-Stars — Milwaukee Bucks point guard Damian Lillard, New York Knicks point guard Jalen Brunson, Cleveland Cavaliers point guard Darius Garland, Miami ...

Julius Erving returns to the site of his ABA dunk contest glory, but it is an emerging aerial master, Larry Nance, that takes the NBA's inaugural competition.

The NBA Slam Dunk Contest was once Julius Erving’s domain before the torch was passed to Michael Jordan. The ensuing years boasted their share of memorable moments, but there’s nothing that ...

Since the NBA didn't have an All-Star Weekend in ... mandatory and three they could do freestyle. For his standing dunk, Julius Erving took two basketballs and dunked them backward and immediately ...

Part 2 of a look back at LI's best basketball players, a series that goes through seven decades for the boys and five decades ...

The NBA All-Star AT&T Slam Dunk Contest is a competition in which ... by the ABA at its 1976 All-Star Game in Denver, with Julius Erving being the winner. That same year, dunks were allowed ...

Julius Erving is one of the best 50 players in NBA history. Many Hall of Famers looked ... drives to the basket to dunk the ball in front of Boston Celtics forward Larry Bird (33) at the Boston ...

High-flying, unstoppable future World Sports Humanitarian Hall of Fame inductee Julius Erving scores ... defenses throughout the NBA. Erving was famed for his dunks, especially the “Rock The ...

HoopsHype came out with the 78 greatest players of all time and Philadelphia 76ers legend Julius Erving popped up at No. 20 on the list: He was 26 by the time he made his NBA debut after years in ...