For someone who did Julius Erving's bidding for almost three decades, it warmed my innards to see so many others still have the touch.
Erving's weeks-long, online auction of personal memorabilia wrapped up last weekend with Dr. J pocketing $3.5 million, minus taxes, consignment percentage, Atlanta bank IOU, Irwin Weiner's agent fee in perpetuity and Ken Starr's annual commissary prison allowance.
Of the 144 items sold — 18 purchased by 76ers' CEO Adam Aron — the most coveted was his 1974 New York Nets ABA championship ring. It went for $460,000, purportedly a record for a sports ring, though not as much as Eddy Curry once paid for a Ring Ding.