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Julius Erving #6 Blue Jersey Philadelphia 76'ers McFarlane NBA Legends Hardwood Classics Six Inch Action Figure is n | 
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| Brand: Mcfarlane Nba Legends > Julius Erving
Category: Toy
Buy New: $28.99
New (3) Collectible (1) from $28.99
Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 92033
MPN: erving
Model: erving
UPC: 787926762716
EAN: 0787926762716
ASIN: B00065IRZ4
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Julius Erving #6 Philadelphia 76'ers Blue Jersey action figure is new in Mcfarlane factory sealed plastic package....package has some shipping chaffing and overall in good condition
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Doctor J is about to make another house call via the dunk June 26, 2005
Lawrance M. Bernabo (The Zenith City, Duluth, Minnesota)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
McFarlane Toys started going old school last year with the first series of its Cooperstown collection, offering baseball Hall of Famers. Now they are doing the same for basketball stars with six members of the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, including Julius Erving. Of course this 6" action figure shows Dr. J, wearing the home blue jersey of the Philadelphia 76ers, at the apex of a leap towards the basket as he gets ready to slam home another acrobatic dunk. I think the sculptors for this figure also wanted to make sure they had Dr. J's famous Afro, which would explain why he is wearing the blue jersey that the 76ers wore in the 1970s versus the red jersey Dr. J wore when he was league M.V.P. in 1981 and part of the World Championship team of 1983. Of course, it would be cool if they had gone back a bit earlier to when Erving was a member of the New Jersey Nets and then he could be dunking the red, white and blue ball of the A.B.A. (but I am sure that would be wrong, even in a year when an "old" A.B.A. team won its third N.B.A. title).
What most fans do not remember is that Erving was pretty good in college where he was one of only six players in N.C.A.A. history to average 20 points and 20 rebounds a game while playing at the University of Massachusetts. Erving is also one of only three pro players to score more than 30,000 career points (combining his A.B.A. and N.B.A. point), averaging 22 points and 6.7 rebounds a game for the 11 seasons of his 16 year career that he played in the N.B.A. But even though there was all that substance to his career, Dr. J gets the credit for showing a new generation of players how to get airborne and play the game above the rim. Erving was an artist as a player, who used his athleticism to redefine the forward position. Before Erving the game was dominated mostly by guards and centers, with Elgin Baylor being the exception that proved the rule. But with Erving around the forward became the league's glamour position (remember the year the first three draft picks in 1982 were James Worthy, Terry Cummings and Dominique Wilkins? I rest my case).
The other figures in the NBA Legends Series I are an earlier Philadelphia basketball legend, Wilt Chamberlain wearing the uniform of the Warriors for his famous 100 point game, Larry Bird of the Boston Celtics, Bill Walton with the Portland Trailblazers, Pete Maravich with the New Orleans Jazz, and Willis Reed with the New York Knickerbockers. It is hard to look at this list and not think about the basketball legends you would like to see in Series II. If you have Larry Bird, then how about Magic Johnson? You say Wilt Chamberlain then you have to think of Bill Russell, which brings a whole host of Celtic greats to mind (including Red Auerbach and his victory cigar). They have to do Oscar Robertson, but if we are talking NBA legends then go back to the start and have one of George Mikan.
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