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J dribbled away most of the clock and, with only a second left, launched a fadeaway jumper from the free throw line over several defenders. Everyone in the building knew who would take the last shot for the Nets - but that knowledge didn't help the Colonels. But with 17 seconds left in the game, the score was tied at 87, and the Nets had the ball. Desperate for a victory, Kentucky played well.

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The series then shifted to Louisville's Freedom Hall for Game 3. The first two games were played at Nassau Coliseum in New York, and the Nets crushed the Colonels in both games. In Round 2 of the 1974 ABA Playoffs, the Nets faced the powerful Kentucky Colonels in a 'best of seven' series. Nets fans quickly learned to expect buzzer-beating shots from their new hero. The 1973-74 season was Erving's first with the New York Nets. J hits an amazing fallaway jumper at the buzzer to give the Nets an 89-87 victory over Kentucky in Game 3 of the 1974 ABA Eastern Division Playoff Finals. After the game, Leo Hirsch talked to the Doctor about his classic performance. It demoralized the Nuggets, and gave the Nets a leg up in the series. Erving hit the shot over Bobby Jones, one of the best defenders in either league. 'It wasn't really the shot I wanted,' said Julius Erving of his game-winning shot at the buzzer in Game 1 of the 1976 ABA Finals. His current contract calls for a piddling $125,000 a year Signed a three-year contract for over $1 million with Hawks, which takes effect in 1975 when his present contract with Squires expires, but his attorneys are trying to get him out of that one earlier. Plans to finish college and get degree in business management. 'That was Willie's biggest contribution of the year,' says Squires owner Earl Foreman in sarcasm. Willie Sojourner was always calling him that and made it stick. Nicknamed 'The Doctor' because of the way he operates on the floor. He also set a record for best rebounding average in the playoffs at 20.36 (224 in 11 games). He scored a record-tying 53 points in one game - equalling Roger Brown's outburst of two years ago - and set a playoff mark with 21 field goals in one game. In 1972 he was even better in playoffs, in absence of Scott.

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He is the best rebounding forward in pro ball. Keeps a calm look throughout game, almost passive, but is always looking for the edge.

Well, Erving can, and he can handle a basketball as though it were a tennis ball, hang high in the air, and lay it on the rim, or hurl it through the hoop, like no one else in the sport, and that includes Connie Hawkins. 'If I could palm a ball,' said Scott, 'I'd be hell.'.

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We had Charlie Scott hold his hand against Erving's last year, and Julie's fingers extended one full joint farther than Charlie's.

Offered services first to New York Nets on Long Island, where he grew up, but was turned down. Passed up senior season at UMass to turn pro. Chosen as ABA's All-Time Most Valuable Player From Jim O'Brien's 1972-73 Complete Handbook of Pro Basketball: Unanimous Selection to ABA 30 Man All-Time Team. Member of 2 New York Nets ABA Championship teams. ABA Career Scoring Average Leader with 28.7 ppg.

ABA Co-MVP with George McGinnis in 1974-75.

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