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Can Doctor J. Save the ABA?

bobkuska
Jun 13, 2021
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[One more article about Julius Erving from Sport Magazine’s classic March 1975 cover of the Doctor wearing scrubs. This one is titled “Can Doctor J. Save the ABA?” The byline belongs to Marty Bell, then an editor at Sport who would also publish the 1975 book The Legend of Dr. J. Because Bell here reports the ABA story in real time, his first-draft of hi…

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