#JULIUS ERVING DAUGHTER PRO#
Pro sports have long been populated by feelgood stories of famous fathers and sons, from Bobby and Brett Hull to Calvin and Grant Hill. Doesn't it make you feel like taking a shower? But there wasn't anything clean about this break.
Then, father and daughter went their separate ways. "She was brought to me at a basketball clinic at a public school.'' "I met her only once, and she was 3 years old,'' said Erving, now an executive with the Orlando Magic. Where was Erving when his toddler took her first baby steps? Why wasn't the man who elevated the dunk to an art form in the audience to offer applause as young Alexandra played the Wicked Witch in her fifth-grade play? When an adolescent girl had her heart broken for the first time, why wasn't Dr. There are no easy answers, only harder questions. Why do two good people - a father and daughter who don't know each other - have to be thrown together after all these years, the secrets of their private lives exposed, causing little besides sensational embarrassment? And, far worse, at a time when she alone deserved to be the star of the sports pages, Stevenson was forced to see her photo awkwardly juxtaposed next to a mug shot of a famous dad who never bothered to be actively involved in her daily life.Ĭaring fans of basketball and tennis shook their heads and asked: Why now? The news made anyone with a heart cringe with regret.Įrving, one of the game's good guys, got caught with his pants down almost two decades after an adulterous sin.
It is the tabloid headline of the week: Dr. "I acknowledge a relationship with her mother in 1980,'' Erving admitted in a terse communique. Hall of Fame basketball player Julius Erving was in seclusion, shamed by a past that includes an out-of-wedlock child who grew up to be an athletic hero. Where was a father's hug for Stevenson when her fairy tale went poof Saturday, after the world's 86th-ranked player lost two humbling sets to Lindsay Davenport and trudged away in defeat from the tournament? A lot of this had to do with protecting his image and the feelings of his wife, who supposedly didn’t want him having involvement with the child.July 4 - Where was Alexandra Stevenson's daddy at the biggest moment of her life, when the 18-year-old tennis sensation nervously walked onto the grass of Centre Court to play in the semifinals of Wimbledon? and Stephenson recounts, Erving was married and wanted separate lives for him and Samantha and had nothing to do with his daughter. That’s a lot of success considering she did it all without having a father around.Īs this ESPN article on the relationship between Dr. She was never able to replicate the success of reaching the semifinals at Wimbledon in 1999. Stephenson achieved a high ranking of No. Did he not take into consideration the feelings of his daughter? What child wants to hear that they were only conceived because their mother got braces and couldn’t provide oral pleasure? I’m sure that will definitely help her self-esteem. Much like when Jimmy Connors revealed in his autobiography that Chris Evert had an abortion, I’m not sure why Dr. With wire and gleaming metal bristling in her mouth, oral sex was not an option.”
“I can only remember one time that we actually had intercourse, and that was because she had just gotten this new orthodontia to straighten her teeth. I can drive over and spend a relaxing evening that might even include oral sex,” Erving writes, per the New York Post’s Page Six. “She becomes someone who helps me unwind if I’m feeling high-strung or stressed.
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