An honest unflinching self portrait of the basketball legend whose classy public image as a superstar and a gentleman masked his personal failings and painful losses which he describes here from his own point of view for the very first timeFor most of his life Julius Erving has been two men in one There is Julius the bright inuisitive son of a Long Island domestic worker who has always wanted to be respected forthan just his athletic ability and there is Dr J the cool acrobatic showman whose flamboyant dunks sent him to the Hall of Fame and turned the act of jamming a basketball through a hoop into an art form In many ways Ervings life has been about the push and pull of Julius and The DoctorIt is Dr J who has stories to tell of the wild days and nights of the ABA in the 1970s and of being the seminal figure who transformed basketball from an earthbound and rigid game into the creative free flowing aerial display it is today He has a long list of signature plays hes famous for winning the first dunk contest in 1976 with a jam on which he lifted off from the foul line and he made a miraculous layup against the Lakers on which he soared behind the backboard before reaching back in to flip the ball in on the other side with one hand He inspired a generation of dunkers including Michael Jordan to express their improvisational talentsBut Julius wasnt always as graceful and in control as Dr J Erving had a pristine image throughout his career and early retirement but he was far from a perfect man Here he gives detailed accounts of some of the personal problems he faced or created behind the scenes including the adulterous affair with sports writer Samantha Stephenson which led to the birth of his daughter professional tennis player Alexandra Stephenson Though his marriage survived that infidelity the death of Ervings 20 year old son Cory in 2000 in a tragic accident proved too much for the union to bear Erving paints a raw heartbreaking picture of the dissolution of his marriage as his wife Turuoise began to blame him for his refusal to be paralyzed by grief for as long as she was Their intense arguments came to a head when Erving stepped out of the shower one day to find his wife holding a lamp in one hand and a vase in the other ready for a physical confrontation I knew somebody was going to get hurt and it wasnt going to be me he says He packed a suitcase and he and Turuoise never lived under the same roof againErvings story is a tale of the nearly perfect player and the imperfect man and how he has come to terms with both of them It will appeal to readers on a sports level and on a human on.
segnala pdf problema ebok Segnala un epub Segnala un problema PDF/EPUBAn honest unflinching self portrait of the basketball legend whose classy public image as a superstar and a gentleman masked his personal failings and painful losses which he describes here from his own point of view for the very first timeFor most of his life Julius Erving has been two men in one There is Julius the bright inuisitive son of a Long Island domestic worker who has always wanted to be respected forthan just his athletic ability and there is Dr J the cool acrobatic showman whose flamboyant dunks sent him to the Hall of Fame and turned the act of jamming a basketball through a hoop into an art form In many ways Ervings life has been about the push and pull of Julius and The DoctorIt is Dr J who has stories to tell of the wild days and nights of the ABA in the 1970s and of being the seminal figure who transformed basketball from an earthbound and rigid game into the creative free flowing aerial display it is today He has a long list of signature plays hes famous for winning the first dunk contest in 1976 with a jam on which he lifted off from the foul line and he made a miraculous layup against the Lakers on which he soared behind the backboard before reaching back in to flip the ball in on the other side with one hand He inspired a generation of dunkers including Michael Jordan to express their improvisational talentsBut Julius wasnt always as graceful and in control as Dr J Erving had a pristine image throughout his career and early retirement but he was far from a perfect man Here he gives detailed accounts of some of the personal problems he faced or created behind the scenes including the adulterous affair with sports writer Samantha Stephenson which led to the birth of his daughter professional tennis player Alexandra Stephenson Though his marriage survived that infidelity the death of Ervings 20 year old son Cory in 2000 in a tragic accident proved too much for the union to bear Erving paints a raw heartbreaking picture of the dissolution of his marriage as his wife Turuoise began to blame him for his refusal to be paralyzed by grief for as long as she was Their intense arguments came to a head when Erving stepped out of the shower one day to find his wife holding a lamp in one hand and a vase in the other ready for a physical confrontation I knew somebody was going to get hurt and it wasnt going to be me he says He packed a suitcase and he and Turuoise never lived under the same roof againErvings story is a tale of the nearly perfect player and the imperfect man and how he has come to terms with both of them It will appeal to readers on a sports level and on a human on.