Julius Irving | No. 11 | Nick Wright's Top 50 Players of the Last 50 Years
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2022
- Known to many by his nicknames "Dr. J" and "The Doctor," Julius Erving was among the most exciting players in NBA history. He was known for jaw-dropping athleticism manifesting in dunks that were both powerful and graceful. To "posterize" a defender remains basketball slang believed to have originated with Erving's penchant for dunking over opposing players in spectacular fashion.
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Is Dr. J the greatest 76er in franchise history?
Yes without question
Absolutely.
He is 1 or 2 but He isn't top 19 in my book...he may be 20th at best
Averaging 38-19 in any playoff series ever is nuts.
Right lmao
He is the reason I started watching basketball 🏀!! The doctor is in the house !! The man could fly
Dr. J had 6 Finals appearances, '74, '76, '77, '80, '82, & '83. He's also a 3 time champion, not 2 time. The graphic also doesn't mention Dr. J's 4x All-ABA 1st team selections, or Dr. J's 30,000+ points career. As well as has an All-Defensive 1st team selection on his hands, should've won more honestly.
Overall Dr. J is the greatest SF in my opinion and easily top 10. More like top 5. With his ridiculous Finals MVPs.
Please don’t tell me you just said dr J is better then lebron or Larry dude😂
Rightfully top-3 (behind LeBron and Bird).
But the gap between 3rd to 4th (Durant) is pretty wide in my opinion.
But for me he is the epitome of a basketball legend.
@@flavianojorge4543, disagree. Better scorer than both Bird and James. Career wise is 8th all-time with 3 scoring titles. Is one of the most versatile and greatest defenders ever, being able to leap extremely high and perform some great shot-blocks. While also being a great 1 on 1 and perimeter defender. Dr. J has a better finals performance than Bird, James, and Durant in '76, all with much less help than what he had as he had no other all-stars on his team. Dr. J was also a great rebounder and underrated passer. Of course Dr. J has more MVPs than Bird or Durant and ties with Lebron. Has less rings and Finals MVPs, however, Dr. J faced much harder competition than Lebron.
This gets into a subpoint of how good each competition was. However, to sum it up quickly, in the 2010s (when Lebron won most of his rings), he faced a lackluster Eastern Conference with SRS scores much worse than the West. Sometimes even facing negative scoring teams. It was much less competitive, and the team wins and conference build was over all much weaker at the time. There's other factors to this as well, I'm just keeping it short. Erving on the other hand, was in a very talented ABA league, that had surpassed the NBA at the time. This is due to the fact that the ABA beat the NBA in their exhibition games, as well as there were a more talent you could point to at the time. Then Erving goes on to go to the stacked East, which is the strongest Eastern conference of all-time, and make 4 Finals trips, winning one of them. And 2 of those trips were past his prime. '72 - '81 is Erving's prime. You can also point to the fact that Dr. J faced over 30 Hall of Famers in his career, versus Lebron who's around 21. And this is only talking about the playoffs, not the Finals, as every team that's ever made the Finals had an official Hall of Famer on their team. I'm also criticizing Lebron's East playoff competition anyways, not relevant to bring up the Finals in the scope.
So with 3 rings, 2 Finals MVP (both being very good, but '76 is hands down better) 4 MVPS, being one of the best defenders ever, one of the best playoff and Finals players ever, Dr. J takes the 1st spot. Sorry if that was long, there's a lot more I can get into, but I don't want to bore you with the details.
@@splitsecond8356 I am not going to refute your argument, i love to see someone argue Dr.J as the best SF of all time. As he is my favorite player of all time. But even though i prefer Dr.J over everyone else as a player, we will just agree to disagree the he is the 3rd best SF only behind to LeBron and Bird, and far ahead of Durant.
@@flavianojorge4543, you can hold whatever stance you want. I'm personally not all that high on Lebron, his competition was very weak in his time in the East, and his playoff run in the West is the 3rd worst recorded of all-time. Even when looking at Lebron at his best in 2016, Dr. J had a similar run in '76 but had 38 points, 14 rebounds, 4 assists, 2 steals, 2 blocks. Much better than Lebron's best. Scoring wise, Dr. J is better, and defensively if the DPOY existed back then Dr. J would've officially had 1 in '76, as he was doing better than Gilmore who's like top 5 defensively bare minimum. And potentially '74 where he had a better Scottie Pippen '94 campaign. Most people that know about ABA Dr. J they tend to concede the Lebron argument anyways, so I won't keep to this.
Bird is interesting. I think Bird is better than Lebron. Faced more Hall of Famers, was in the best East of all-time, and is one of the best all-around players ever. Bird has arguably the best 50/40/90 season ever, in '88, I'd say Curry in 2016, but I understand all the importance and great statistical outputs that Bird had to give him that argument. Very underrated defensively too, he was 3rd DPOY voting for 2 years, should've won some 1st Team-Defensive spots as well when you look at who they gave it to over him. But even talking about Bird at his best, the only thing he did better than Dr. J was shooting. Dr. J was more efficient all-around then Bird, Bird was only more efficient when it came to deep 2s and 3 point efficiency. Scoring wise, of course Erving wins that hands down. Dr. J was more consistent in the playoffs and had really never had a true bad game in the playoffs or finals as he always playing really good. More MVPs than Bird. A better defensive player than Bird. Better Finals MVP and MVPS than Bird. Played longer than Bird. I never got the argument for Bird either, I respect Bird, he's my number 6 all-time, but he's not better than Dr. J.
And of course Durant as you said, Durant is cool. He's personally one of my favorites of all-time behind Dr. J. But I have outside the top 10 in my stacked 18 because he needs another win. And with the East making a huge comeback in how talented and deep it is, if he wins a ring and has a 2017 or 2018 like performance, I'll give him the nod over Bird. But Durant needs to do a lot more to get over Erving since he's nowhere near the defender he is, and arguably scorer, even though I think Durant is the better scorer by a bit.
Doctor J was named to the 35th Anniversary All time NBA team in 1981 as an ACTIVE player. Doc and Kareem were the only two active players named to that team... Doc was also named to the 50th and 75th anniversary teams too (retired by then) ... but that 75-76 season was special because: Doc was ABA scoring champion, won regular season MVP, won Playoff MVP, won last ABA title, first slam dunk champion, first team all ABA, ABA defensive first team, averaged 38-14-5 (which lead both Finals teams) with Nugget's Bobby Jones as primary defender on him , Doc and the Nets challenged NBA champion Boston Celtics to a series to determine "world" champion, but Celtics and NBA refused ... at 25-26 years old
Yes Magic and Bird have people watching but it all started from Dr. Jay Dr. Jay was the first basketball player I knew about and want it to be
The doctor. Even a mid 30 year old like myself can understand his greatness.
The doctor in my top ten
If ONLY NBA will finally include ABA stats and accolades (rightfully) Dr.J will get his true deserving respect as a Legend of the game.
They should because they took the dunk contest, teams.and 3 point line from the aba so they should count those stats
Graphic says 2 championships. He had 3 - 2 in the ABA and 1 NBA. You got it right in your narrative. Dr. J was my idol. Moses Guthrie, my favorite movie character.
In 82 finals Bob Mcadoo a 3 times scoring champion was the 5 scoring option for the Lakers behind 4 all stars in Kareem,Magic,Wilkes and Nixon..
Thank you Nick & Chris!! Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you for giving the ABA it’s props & dismantling the untruth about the NBA having the better players! Thank you for the Doc’s stats and his numbers during the playoffs(when it matters most)! Thank you for giving him his proper due! I’m still baffled at the arrogance of other “experts” that dismiss his ABA accomplishments simply because it was the ABA without mentioning the ABA NBA head to head battles & how the ABA held its own against the so-called superior league.I hate that they leave him out of the GOAT conversation when he was the main reason for the merger?! How can they leave him out of the GOAT conversation when it is his style of play,that revolutionized the way individuals play by doing the “IMPOSSIBLE “ & making the highlight reel in the same way that Steph revolutionized the three point shot & the way pistol Pete revolutionized dribbling & passing.Thank you! Oh!& Doc won 3 MVPS in a row as well in the ABA!
Julius *Erving
Dr j was the league marquee name for a 10 year stretch period..people who say tha Kareem was are out of contact with reality..
Dr j retired 3 rd in points, first in steals, and top 10 in blocks and offensive rebounds
What about doing a countdown of best players post NBA-ABA merger?
Nick got this right.
One can definetely conclude that Kareem could have been a one ring player without magic and that first ring was with Big O..
🐐 goat
Me personally I'm not the biggest fan of Nick wright I think Dr Jay should be between 7:00 and 10:00 my personal opinion he's my favorite athlete of all time and I'm not a really a fan of Christmas shower because he kind of addicts himself especially here you can't down Dr j and say well he's in top 15 to 20 but and then say the ABA stats matter because of you say the ABA stats matter what excuse me Nick said about from his rookie year all the way to the 24 years old tell me who had a better stretch not LeBron not even Michael Jordan and we talking playoffs so if you taking turn all that and then what he did when he got to the NBA he was probably between 28 and 30 and he still was able to accomplish I believe he should be at least nah or 10th all time and we're not even talking that he was a great team defender and his impact on the game just like Curry impact on the game and how curious changing the game and it was tougher to score back then because you can hand check that's why Lebron is supposed to be the all-time leading scorer I just think that Julius is the greatest small forward of all time
Should be ranked higher
Lmao y’all spelled his name wrong
Dr J went to conference finals 8 out of 10 years and 6 out of 10 tp the finals .
Wow.
Did nick already say olajuwon?
No lol. Probably 8 or 9
@@oscarwestbrook1155 oh cool! Thank you!!!
dr j is one of those guys who always looks old no matter how old he was in the picture
Dr j is the Only player post 1970 with 30000 p/ 10000 reb / 5000 as / 2000 st / 2000bk..
Bingo!
Even before my favorite player Michael Jordan I wanted to be like Dr. J I didn’t wanna be like bird or magic even I love them
Dr j lost nba ring ,finals mvp and instant dominance because of Gene Shue , Mc Ginnis didnt like the hostile take over of the Sizers team by the greatest star of the game..
Add Pat Williams to that list. Took ball out of his hands. He really was the 1st PF with Nets. Took 6 less shots a game in NBA. Facts
Spell the guy's name right in the title: Erving, not Irving
And when was he ever injured...hmm
Karl malone should be higher
Dr j lost the 81 series because the refs let the Celtics play very dirty in game 6 to reverse and destroy a runaway dunk fest on them.they resorted to violence and chaos that went unpunished by the refs..
I dont feel like ABA should be valued the same as NBA. Wasnt the ABA much less competetive than the NBA?
In 1977, the FIRST year of the ABA/ NBA merger, 10 (TEN!) of the all- stars were from the ABA. The 76ers, with 3 starters from the ABA, knocked out, the DEFENDING NBA CHAMPS, the Celtics from the playoffs! They went to the NBA finals that year. The all-star game MVP was from the ABA. The All-NBA team had 4 ABA guys on it. The all-defensive team had 3 ABA guys on it.
Nick clearly doesn't value the ABA as much a the NBA. If he did, 4 MVPs and 3 championships would put Dr J, at least, in the top 7.
@@prescriptionexercise3899 right all you have to do is look at the Superstars in the ABA then look at the superstars the nba had
Kareem had no playoff success once so ever from 1971 to 1980 till magic arrived..in 79 he list with Nixon,Dantley and Wilkes..
Finals MVP regular season MVP World Championship with Bucks. 1971
@@scottdavidson9963 Ok but after 71 till 80 no playoff success..can you somehow understand the self revealing truth that derives from this..that is full 8 seasons and then at age 30 magic pairs with Kareem a non toxic pairing and then he gets 5 more rings ! my argument is about how moronic is the rings argument and not at all about Kareem value!
Sorry but Moses Malone should be above Julius despite the fact Dr's Game is so much more entertaining
The Doc was so impactful, inspiring a whole generation of players
We can see Nick, don't know anything about basketball!
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