

Sixers legend Julius Erving was taken to an area hospital on Friday night. With wire and gleaming metal bristling in her mouth, oral sex was not an option.”īut Erving, known for his Dante de Blasio-like Afro and his thunderous dunks, felt terrible in 1999 when his and Samantha’s out-of-wedlock daughter - playing in the semifinals at Wimbledon - was caught in a media firestorm over her famous father. Updated: Sixers and NBA legend Julius Erving hospitalized, released Saturday Published: Jan. I can drive over and spend a relaxing evening that might even include oral sex,” Erving writes. “I can only remember one time that we actually had intercourse, and that was because she had just gotten this new orthodontia to straighten her teeth. “She becomes someone who helps me unwind if I’m feeling high-strung or stressed. The hotly anticipated book is supposed to be under lock and key until its official publication on Tuesday, but I found an early copy at a downtown bookstore.Įrving tells how he met Samantha Stevenson - whom he describes on the page as “a smart single woman - a pretty white girl, a bit of a hippie giving off a vibe of availability” - in 1978 when she was covering the Philadelphia 76ers for Sport magazine. The audio for this program is not available.Julius Erving wouldn’t have fathered tennis player Alexandra Stevenson, 32, if her mother hadn’t gotten braces on her teeth, the Hall of Fame basketball player writes in his new autobiography, “Dr. I am living a bountiful life, and while it has not always been easy, it has been exciting and, I believe, emblematic of our time. I want to recall with you everything that I have seen and done, and try to make sense of this ongoing journey. I ask for no pity I only want to relate what I have felt and seen.Īn American life, after all, is the sum of its parts, the successes and the failings, and mine has been rich with both. Julius Erving and everybody else, Heinsohn told Roland Lazenby in his biography Jerry. I am an American man whose journey has been blessed by the great gifts that America offers-wealth, fame, championships, awards-and also scoured by the tragedies that are a part of the human experience. His death, at a hospital, was announced on Twitter by the Lakers.

J Enterprises and the Erving Group, partner in the first minority-owned NASCAR team in the modern era, board member of corporations such as Saks Fifth Avenue, Meridian Bank, Williams Communications, and Sports Authority, and institutions including Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Philadelphia’s Fairmont Park Commission-are those I wish to be measured by. My other accomplishments- of completing my college degree, of the pride I take in my children, of rising up and out of the Hempstead, Long Island, projects to become Julius Erving, founder and CEO of Dr. I am, of course, an athlete, a former basketball player, and while my achievements in that arena are my best known, they are only the mythic part of my story.
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I am an African-American, living through tumultuous times in our country, navigating a cultural landscape that has been very much divided for much of my life I am a husband, trying and not always succeeding to live up to vows of fidelity amid the seductions of celebrity and fame I am a father, seeking to impart values and my belief in America to my sons and daughters, pulled too often by the demands of professional sports away from those children I am a businessman, believing deeply in the system that rewarded me and now seeking to build another legacy. 1964, in the grounds of Stoke Mandeville Hospital, home of the National Spinal Injuries. Yet my journey is more than that of an athlete. She was born on October 17, 1969, in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Find the perfect dr j basketball stock photo, image, vector. I am born with great genetic gifts of speed and strength and dexterity, and the opportunities of my country allowed me to gain wealth and fame through basketball. Stevenson didn't keep her ordeal of trying to get into a locker room as a woman in the 1970s a secret, but it was also a hint to the future. I believe that while what I achieved is only possible in the United States, my faults are my own, singular and personal. J met Samantha Stevenson, a freelance journalist who had been assigned to cover the Philadelphia 76ers. Mine is an American life, fully lived, rich with the spoils and temptations of success, and rife with the failings and shortcomings of succumbing to those same temptations. He said he spends at least 10 days a month on the road making corporate and philanthropic appearances through his company, Dr. The author spoke with Bill Littlefied on Only A Game. ( Listen to our interview and read Bill's book review.)
