Bill Bradley

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Bill Bradley
Player information
Full name	William Warren Bradley
birthday	28th July 1943 (age 77)
place of birth	Crystal City, Missouri , USA
size	196 cm
Weight	92 kg
position	Small forward
college	Princeton
NBA draft	1965, Territorial Pick , New York Knicks
Jersey number	24
Clubs as active
1965-1966	Olimpia Milano
196700000	Kentucky Colonels
1967-1977	New York Knicks
National team
196400000	United States

William Warren "Bill" Bradley (born July 28, 1943 in Crystal City , Missouri ) is an American politician and former basketball player .

For the Democratic Party , he was a member of the US Senate from 1979 to 1997 as a representative of the state of New Jersey . As a basketball player he was active in the North American professional league NBA for the New York Knicks between 1967 and 1977 .

career

Basketball career

As an outstanding high school athlete, Bradley received over 70 offers for athletic scholarships , including from Kentucky's Adolph Rupp . Since Bradley placed more emphasis on his education than on sports, he decided in 1961 to study at Princeton University at his own expense.

Bill Bradley as a College Player (1964)

As the outstanding player of the Ivy League , Bradley was voted three times for the All-American team ('63 to '65) and once for Player of the Year (1965). At the Olympia '64 he won the gold medal with the USA team.

Before the regular draft of 1965, the New York Knicks pulled him as a so-called " Territorial Pick, " but Bradley did not immediately opt for a career as a professional athlete. As a winner of a Rhodes Scholarship at Worcester College at the University of Oxford , he studied in England until 1967. In the meantime he played basketball in Italy for Olimpia Milano .

In 1967 he finally moved to the NBA. An important part of an extraordinary Knicks team with Willis Reed , Walt Frazier and Dave DeBusschere , he won the NBA championship in 1970, and another in 1973. He ended his basketball career in 1977 after ten years with the Knicks. In 1983 Bradley was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame .

politics

Bradley chose a career in politics and became a U.S. Senator for New Jersey State in 1979 , which he remained until 1997. As a popular politician, he was considered a possible presidential candidate in 1988, but did not make a decision until 2000 and lost in the primaries to Vice President Al Gore .

Others

Bradley is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (since 1996) and the American Philosophical Society (since 1997).

At the beginning of 2008 he was one of a group of 105 basketball players who were nominated by the EuroLeague in order to be able to determine fifty important personalities in the sport of basketball in Europe and to honor them in May 2008 in Madrid (Spain). All the nominated players played a particularly prominent role in the European Cup competitions of FIBA Europe and the EuroLeague and were each one of the particularly prominent "stars" of their national league teams.

See also

• List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Web links

Commons : Bill Bradley  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Bill Bradley in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Washington Post article series, Life of Bill Bradley
• Bill Bradley - Player Profile on NBA.com
• Bill Bradley - player profile on basketball-reference.com
• Bill Bradley in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame :: Bill Bradley. In: hoophall.com. Retrieved May 9, 2020 . 
2. ^ Member History: Bill Bradley. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 17, 2018 . 
3. ^ NN: The All-Time Player Nominees. ( Memento of January 2, 2015 on the Internet Archive ) Archived from EuroLeague website; Barcelona, ​​January 2, 2015. Accessed February 2, 2019.