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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Moses and the Doctor
    sub title: two men, one championship, and the birth of modern basketball
  name:
    name part: Epplin, Luke
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2026
    copyright date: 2026
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (340 p.) : illustrations (some color)
  abstract: "In the early 1970s, playground courts across the United States were jammed with hoops buffs experimenting with showy moves and aerial shots that were changing the look and feel of a sport once stubbornly earthbound. Out of this scene emerged a pair of incomparable yet dissimilar streetball sensations, both of whom would make their name in the American Basketball Association, an upstart professional league characterized as much by flamboyance as invention. Julius Erving, better known as Dr. J, became a mythic figure whose airborne acrobatics inspired an army of high-flying acolytes. Moses Malone, a down-and-dirty banger, scrambled basketball apprenticeships forever by skipping directly from high school to the pros. Into the 1980s, Erving and Malone switched leagues, won MVPs, shattered records, and led their respective clubs into the playoff's championship round. But one prize eluded them: an NBA title. After suffering perennial defeat at the hands of Magic Johnson's Los Angeles Lakers and Larry Bird's Boston Celtics, the two eventually joined forces on the Philadelphia 76ers, blending their contrasting talents into a seamless whole. Together, Erving and Malone set out to accomplish what no other NBA team fronted by ex-ABA superstars had managed."--Amazon.
  target audience: adult
  note: Luke Epplin.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Malone, Moses
      name part: 1955-2015
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Erving, Julius
  subject:
    name:
      name part: National Basketball Association.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Philadelphia 76ers (Basketball team)
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: American Basketball Association (1967-1976)
  subject:
    name:
      name part: NBA Finals (Basketball) (1983)
  subject:
    topic: Basketball players
    geographic: United States
    genre: Biography
  subject:
    topic: Sports
  subject:
    topic: Middle Atlantic (DC
  subject:
    topic: State & Local
  subject:
    topic: United States
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
  subject:
    topic: Basketball
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION
  subject:
    topic: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
  subject:
    topic: SPORTS & RECREATION / Basketball
  classification: GV885.5 .E66 2026
  classification: 796.323
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Moses and the Doctor
    name:
      name part: Epplin, Luke.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, NY : Grand Central Publishing, 2026
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1522716336
  identifier: 9780306833519 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 0306833514
  identifier: 9780306833496
  identifier: 888B1587-8F9B-4B76-9D69-43E089879529 OverDrive, Inc.
  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: EBLCP
    record creation date: 260207
    record change date: 20260530144324.4
    record identifier: in00005783143
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng