Julius "Dr. J" Erving

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

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Comedy, Sports, Arts

5.0 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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It’s the Season 6 finale of Knuckleheads, y’all! And we’ve got a real one to close it out for you. One of the greatest ever to do it. New York legend. Rucker Park hero. Philadelphia superstar. The high-flying hooper every kid wanted to be, a man who made his mark on the sport forever with a name the game will never forget, it’s JULIUS ... DR.J ... ERVING! Nothing but love for our OG. Make an appointment with the Doctor and tune in for this very special episode of Knuckleheads. Current state of basketball and player resemblances [3:00] Legendary dunking, being one of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players, nickname origin [9:15] UMASS and Rucker Park [23:45] ABA to NBA transition, first dunk contest, biggest rivalries [30:49] Effortless swagger, endorsements, racism over time [53:20] Being MJ’s favorite player, Wilt Chamberlain, almost playing for the Bucks [1:04:55] About Our Hosts: NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls. Other places to find Knuckleheads: Subscribe on Youtube Follow on Instagram Follow on FacebookSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	First, what I want to ask you, this is a two-port question.
0:03.3	Okay.
0:03.8	When you got to the ABA, who was the first push in the bus you asked,
0:08.3	and when you got to the NBA, who was the first person to bus you asked?
0:11.9	I'm still waiting.
0:13.4	Oh, that's right.
0:15.2	That's straight up.
0:17.2	You did all that.
0:19.2	I was really still waiting.
0:20.8	But you know what, Ron Harper did sneak a dunk in on me,
0:24.3	because I thought I was a shark block.
0:25.8	Oh, okay.
0:26.6	That was my last year, just first year.
0:28.9	So it took a long time.
0:32.0	I do remember Buck Williams hitting me with an elbow in my chest.
0:38.4	I lost my breath, and I never was able to get him back.
0:42.8	He was kind of being anyway, 6'10", and pretty strong.
0:46.5	So my enforcer was sleep on the job, that particular day.
0:49.6	So this is a better question, was there even a foul call, which I highly doubt, or
0:55.0	you just got caught with it?
0:56.5	No, it wasn't a foul call.
0:59.6	But let me go back to the NBA thing, because there were two guys, Orange and Jibali, and
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