Philadelphia Daily News writer describes Dr. J’s move in the 1980 NBA Finals this way:

“It started with the 76ers up, 89-84, and Erving at a sharp angle right of the basket. He took one hard dribble toward the baseline and then left the planet. There were four problems with this move. One was named Mark Landsberger, another Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, another Jim Chones and the fourth was the black boundary stripe that even includes Erving in its jurisdiction. HE WENT AROUND the first three in one awesome uncoiling of calf muscles and now he was floating partially out of bounds, well behind the backboard. Come now, even Erving’s imagination couldn’t find an escape from this prison of flesh and glass and borderline, could it? So he windmilled the ball in his right palm to kill time and decide, but by now even gravity was demanding he stop this nonsense. Finally, the fitting climax occurred. He reached from behind the backboard, he reached from out of bounds, he reached around the flailing snake arms of Abdul-Jabbar and Chones and flicked it up with impossibly perfect English off the glass . . . and in, I swear, in.”

But, you can see for yourself:

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