Bill Bradley
Bill Bradley | |||||||||||||||||||||
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United States Senator from New Jersey | |||||||||||||||||||||
In office January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1997 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Clifford P. Case | ||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Robert Torricelli | ||||||||||||||||||||
Personal details | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born | William Warren Bradley July 28, 1943 Crystal City, Missouri, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Democratic | ||||||||||||||||||||
Spouse |
Ernestine Misslbeck Schlant
(m. 1974; div. 2007) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Domestic partner | Olimpia Milano | ||||||||||||||||||||
1967–1977 | New York Knicks | ||||||||||||||||||||
Career highlights and awards | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Career statistics | |||||||||||||||||||||
Points | 9,217 (12.4 ppg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Rebounds | 2,354 (3.2 rpg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Assists | 2,533 (3.4 apg) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Stats at NBA.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
Stats at Basketball-Reference.com | |||||||||||||||||||||
Basketball Hall of Fame as player | |||||||||||||||||||||
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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William Warren Bradley (born July 28, 1943) is an American politician and former professional basketball player. He served three terms as a Democratic U.S. senator from New Jersey (1979–1997). He ran for the Democratic Party's nomination for president in the 2000 election, which he lost to Vice President Al Gore.
Bradley was born and raised in
While at Oxford, Bradley played one season of professional basketball in Europe and eventually decided to join the
Bradley is the author of seven non-fiction books, most recently We Can All Do Better, and hosts a weekly radio show, American Voices, on Sirius Satellite Radio. He is a corporate director of Starbucks and a partner at investment bank Allen & Company in New York City. Bradley is a member of the ReFormers Caucus of Issue One.[1] He also serves on that group's advisory board.
Bradley is a member of both the American Academy of Arts and Sciences[2] and the American Philosophical Society.[3] In 2008 Bradley was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.[4]
Early life
Bradley was born on July 28, 1943, in
Bradley must surely be the only great basketball player who wintered regularly in Palm Beach until he was thirteen years old.
— The New Yorker, 1965[6]
Bradley began playing basketball at the age of nine. He was a star at Crystal City High School, where he scored 3,068 points in his scholastic career, was twice named All-American, and was elected to the Missouri Association of Student Councils.[6] He received 75 college scholarship offers, although he applied to only five schools[9][11][10] and only scored a 485 out of 800 on the Verbal portion of the SAT,[12] which—despite being likely in the top third of all test takers that year—normally would have caused selective schools like Princeton University to reject him.[13]
Bradley's basketball ability benefited from his height—5 feet 9 inches (1.75 m) in the seventh grade, 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) in the eighth grade,[10] and his adult size of 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 m) by the age of 15[6]—and unusually wide peripheral vision,[6] which he worked to improve by focusing on faraway objects while walking.[14][15] During his high school years, Bradley maintained a rigorous practice schedule, a habit he carried through college.[16] He would work on the court for "three and a half hours every day after school, nine to five on Saturday, one-thirty to five on Sunday, and, in the summer, about three hours a day. He put ten pounds of lead slivers in his sneakers, set up chairs as opponents and dribbled in a slalom fashion around them, and wore eyeglass frames that had a piece of cardboard taped to them so that he could not see the floor, for "a good dribbler never looks at the ball."[6]
Basketball
College career
Bradley was considered to be the top high school basketball player in the country. He initially chose to attend Duke in the fall of 1961.[17] However, after breaking his foot in the summer of 1961 during a baseball game and thinking about his college decision outside of basketball, Bradley decided to enroll at Princeton due to its record in preparing students for government or United States Foreign Service work.[18][10] He had been awarded a scholarship at Duke, but not at Princeton; the Ivy League does not allow its members to award athletic scholarships,[17][18] and he was disqualified from receiving financial aid because of his family's wealth.[6]: 13
Bradley wore #42 in honor of childhood hero
In his sophomore year Bradley scored 40 points in an 82–81 loss to St. Joseph's and was named to
As a senior and team captain
Bradley holds a number of Ivy League career records, including total and average points (1,253/29.83, respectively), and
The coach described Bradley as "not the most physical player. Others can run faster and jump higher. The difference ... is self-discipline."[6] Afraid that he was not qualified for Princeton, Bradley recalled that after almost failing freshman French and biology, he "just lived in the library".[19] Bradley had three to four hours of classes and four hours of basketball practice daily, studied an average of seven hours each weekday, and up to 24 more hours each weekend,[10] frequently spoke for the Fellowship of Christian Athletes around the country, and taught Sunday school at the local Presbyterian Church. When practicing he did not move from a location on the court unless he made at least ten of 13 shots, and could detect whether a basket was an inch too low from the regulation ten feet.[6] Bradley took losses personally, outraged when other freshman players laughed and joked after a loss. His only criticism of childhood hero Wilt Chamberlain was that Chamberlain lacked a killer instinct.[19]
Others noted that Bradley seemed to lack enemies despite great athletic, academic, and social success. Classmate
Professional career
Bradley's graduation year, 1965, was the last year that the
Bradley dropped out of Oxford in April 1967, two months before graduation, to enter the
Bradley joined the New York Knicks in December 1967, having missed the preseason and several weeks of the
During his NBA career, Bradley used his fame on the court to explore social as well as political issues, meeting with journalists, government officials, academics, businesspeople, and social activists. He also worked as an assistant to the director of the Office of Economic Opportunity in Washington, D.C., and as a teacher in the street academies of Harlem.[8] In 1976, he also became an author by publishing Life on the Run. Using a 20-day stretch of time during one season as the main focus of the book, he chronicled his experiences in the NBA and the people he met along the way. Bradley wrote that he was uncomfortable using his celebrity status to earn extra money endorsing products as other players did.[43]
Retiring from basketball in 1977, he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1983, along with teammate Dave DeBusschere.[44] In 1984, the Knicks retired his number 24 jersey; he was the fourth player so honored by the Knicks, after Willis Reed, Walt Frazier, and DeBusschere.[45] He is one of only two players, along with Manu Ginóbili, to have won a EuroLeague title, an NBA championship, and an Olympic gold medal.[46]
Politics
Politics was a frequent subject of discussion in the Bradley household, and some of his relatives held local and county political offices. He majored in history at Princeton and was present in the
During his third year with the Knicks, Bradley told Robert Lipsyte that he regretted only focusing on school and basketball at Princeton; "perhaps considered a smart athlete" by society, "or an athlete with character, but still a particular kind of object instead of a particular human being".[19] In Life on the Run, Bradley wrote that he had intended to only play in the NBA for four years before signing a second contract for four more. The New York Times's review of the book stated that "it does not seem ... that there was much in the way of intellectual contact" with teammates, and speculated that after basketball "Perhaps he will turn to politics at last".[43] In 1978 Bradley said that congressman Mo Udall, himself a former professional basketball player, had told him ten years earlier that professional sports could help prepare him for politics, depending on what he did with his non-playing time.[34] A year after the Lipsyte conversation, Bradley gave a speech to 113 top Missouri scholar-athletes. Instead of just congratulations as they expected, the NBA starter quoted Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell in giving advice he wished he had heard in high school:[19]
Thousands of people who do not know me use my participation on a Sunday afternoon as an excuse for non-action, as a fix to help them escape their own everyday problems, and society's problems. The toll of providing that experience is beginning to register on me
"Are you being subtly programmed into being a certain kind of person with a narrow range of traditional career alternatives?" Bradley asked the audience. "If so, rebel".[19]
U.S. Senate
After four years of political campaigning for Democratic candidates around New Jersey, Bradley decided in the summer of 1977 to retire from the Knicks and run in the
In the Senate, Bradley acquired a reputation for being somewhat aloof and was thought of as a "policy wonk",
Bradley was re-elected in 1984 with 65% of the vote against Montclair mayor Mary V. Mochary.[52]
In 1987, Bradley re-introduced legislation that would return 1.3 million acres of land in the Black Hills of South Dakota to the Sioux tribe that had been illegally seized by President Ulysses S. Grant under the threat of starvation of the tribe in 1877. The legislation proposed to keep Mount Rushmore within the US Park Service and 1.3 million acres of the Black Hills to return to jurisdiction under a Sioux National Council. The legislation died in committee.[53][54]
In 1988, he was encouraged to seek the Democratic nomination for president, but he declined to enter the race, saying that he would know when he was ready.[55] In 1990, a controversy over a state income tax increase—on which he refused to take a position—and his proposal on merit pay for teachers, which led the NJEA to support his opponent, turned his once-obscure rival for the Senate, Christine Todd Whitman, into a viable candidate, and Bradley won by only a slim margin. In 1995, he announced he would not run for re-election, publicly declaring American politics "broken".[11]
While he was a senator, Bradley walked the beaches from
Presidential candidate
Bradley ran in the
On public education, he proposed to make over $2 billion in block grants available to each state every year. He further promised to bring 60,000 new teachers into the education system in hard-to-staff areas over ten years by offering college scholarships to anyone who agreed to become a teacher after graduating; Gore offered a similar proposal.[61]
Bradley also made
Although Gore was considered the party favorite,[58] Bradley received a number of high-profile endorsements, including senators Paul Wellstone,[63][64] Bob Kerrey, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan;[65] former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich;[66] former New York City mayor Ed Koch; former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker; and basketball stars Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson.[67][68][69] Bradley and Jackson have been close friends since they were teammates playing for the New York Knicks. Jackson was a vocal supporter of Bradley's run for the presidency and often wore his campaign button in public.[70] Jackson announced his acceptance of the position of head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers while Bradley was campaigning in California in 1999, and he was a "regular draw on the Bradley money trail" during the campaign.[71][72] Bradley later called it a "great honor" to be the presenter when Jackson was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.[73]
Bradley's campaign initially had strong prospects, due to high-profile endorsements and as his fundraising efforts gave him a deep war chest. However, it floundered, in part because it was overshadowed by Senator John McCain's far more attention-gaining, but ultimately unsuccessful, campaign for the Republican nomination; McCain had stolen Bradley's "thunder" on several occasions. Bradley was much embarrassed by his two to one defeat in the Iowa caucus, despite spending heavily there, as the unions pledged their support for Gore. Bradley then lost the New Hampshire primary 53–47%, which had been viewed as a must-win state for his campaign to remain competitive. Bradley finished a distant second during each of the primaries on Super Tuesday.
On March 9, 2000, after failing to win any of the first 20 primaries and caucuses in the election process, Bradley withdrew his campaign and endorsed Gore; he ruled out the idea of running as the vice-presidential candidate and did not answer questions about possible future runs for the presidency. He said that he would continue to speak out regarding his brand of politics, calling for campaign finance reform, gun control, and increased health care insurance.[74][75]
After politics
In 1999 Bradley was awarded the
In January 2004, Bradley and Gore both endorsed
He has worked as a corporate consultant and
Bradley is a member of the board of directors of the
Bradley created an autobiographical one-man show, Rolling Along, which was filmed before a live audience in a New York theater in 2022. The film debuted at the 2023
Personal life
As a young man Bradley avoided women who wanted to date a celebrity. He wrote in Life on the Run that being famous had taught him what beautiful women experienced, "the unnaturalness of being a sex object". Future TV journalist Diane Sawyer was a serious girlfriend in college.[19]
Bradley married Ernestine (née Misslbeck) Schlant, a German-born professor of
Published works
- Bradley, Bill Life on the Run (Bantam Books, 1977) ISBN 0-553110551
- Bradley, Bill Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir (Alfred A. Knopf, 1996) ISBN 978-0679444886
- Bradley, Bill Values of the Game (Artisan, 1998) ISBN 1-57965116X
- Bradley, Bill The Journey from Here (Artisan, 2000) ISBN 1-579651658
- Bradley, Bill ISBN 978-1400065073
- Bradley, Bill We Can All Do Better (Vanguard Press, May 8, 2012) ISBN 978-1593157296
See also
- List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career free throw scoring leaders
- List of NCAA Division I men's basketball players with 2000 points and 1000 rebounds
- List of Princeton University Olympians
- List of NBA players who have spent their entire career with one franchise
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Further reading
- ISBN 0-374514852.
Primary sources
- Bradley, Bill. Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir (Vintage, 1997).
- Bradley, Bill. The New American Story (Random House, 2008).