Years before Julius Erving became the iconic Dr. J and one of basketball's all-time legends, he established a friendship with Bob Nash that has lasted for decades.
Before Erving began his collegiate career at the University of Massachusetts, and before Nash attended San Jacinto College, a two-year school in Texas, the future pros first squared off in the spring of 1968.
They met in upstate New York in the Schoolboy Basketball Classic, an annual event featuring teams from the Empire State and the New York City metropolitan region, Connecticut and Massachusetts. Nash, who's from Hartford, competed for the Connecticut squad; Erving, out of Roosevelt, New York, on Long Island, suited up for the NYC area squad.