You were a Coca-Cola shareholder and owned a bottling plant franchise. That wasn’t common for basketball players in the 1980s. How did that begin? Julius Erving: Not just basketball players but athletes, period. The doors weren’t open, particularly for black athletes. But I was very fortunate to meet an individual named J. Bruce Llewellyn, a New York businessman who owned the Fedco grocery stores. It was a multi-million dollar business at a time when you didn’t see a lot of minorities be successful like that. In the 1980s, he invited me to be a part of an acquisition of a bottling franchise, which covered Philadelphia and New Jersey and Delaware. We held on to it until around 2005, then we sold it back to Coca-Cola, so that was a win. That lasted longer than my career because my career was only sixteen years and this was longer.