But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you've got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.

Erving was U. But he's the professor and he was the first one to call me "the doctor. He played three exhibition games with the Hawks until because of a legal injunction he was obliged by a three-judge panel to return to the ABA Squires.

He is the fifth-highest scorer in professional basketball history with 30026 points (NBA and ABA combined). Erving was inducted in 1993 into the Basketball Hall of Fame and was also named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary All-Time team. Erving won three championships four Most Valuable Player Awards and three scoring titles with the ABA's Virginia Squires and New York Nets (now the NBA's Brooklyn Nets) and the NBA's Philadelphia 76ers.