Julius Erving had the misfortune to come along when the ABA was still reasonably healthy and before Magic and Bird and then Jordan, all of whom made NBA basketball a vastly more popular sport.
Most of Erving’s legendary moments came in the ABA and either weren’t televised or certainly weren’t archived.
He was one of the true greats though and a lot of his legend was built in the summers at the legendary Ruckers Park. You can kind of draw a line from Connie Hawkins to Erving to David Thompson to Michael Jordan to Zion Williamson. Erving was, as much as anyone, responsible for basketball moving from a staid, horizontal game to an elevated aerial assault.