Bill Bradley

Early life

Bradley was born on July 28, 1943 in Crystal City, Missouri, the only child of Warren, a banker, and Susan “Susie” (ne Crowe) Bradley (d. 1995), a teacher. Politicians and politics were standard dinner-table topics in Bradley’s childhood, and he described his father as a “solid Republican” who was an elector for Thomas E. Dewey in the 1948 presidential election.

He began playing basketball in fourth grade. He was a basketball star at Crystal City High School, where he scored 3,068 points in his scholastic career, and was twice named All-American. He received 75 college scholarship offers, although he applied to only five schools.

Bradley’s basketball ability was enhanced by his unusually wide peripheral vision, which he worked to improve by focusing on faraway objects while walking. During his high school years, Bradley maintained a rigorous practice schedule, a habit he carried through college. 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.”

Basketball

College

Playing at Princeton, 1964

Considered the top high school player in the country, Bradley initially chose to attend Duke University in the fall of 1961. However, after breaking his foot in the summer of 1961 during a baseball game and thinking about his college decision outside of basketball, he decided to enroll at Princeton University instead. He had been awarded a scholarship at Duke, but not at Princeton (the Ivy League does not allow its members to award athletic scholarships). In his freshman year at Princeton, Bradley averaged more than 30 points per game for the freshman team, and at one point during his freshman season, he made 57 consecutive free throws. The following year, as a sophomore, he was a varsity starter, in Butch van Breda Kolff’s first year as the Princeton coach.

Bradley was named to The Sporting News All-American first team in early 1963, in his sophomore year, and the coach of the St. Louis Hawks believed he was ready to play professional basketball at that point. The AP and United Press International polls both put Bradley on the second team, establishing him as the top sophomore player in the country. The following year, as a junior, The Sporting News again named him to its All-American team (the only junior) and additionally named him player of the year.

Olympic medal record

Men’s Basketball

Gold

1964 Tokyo

United States

At the Olympic basketball trials in April 1964, Bradley played guard instead of his usual forward position, and was still a top performer at the trials. He was chosen unanimously for the Olympic team and was also elected captain of the Princeton basketball team for the following season. The Olympic team went on to win its sixth consecutive gold medal.

In total, Bradley scored 2,503 points at Princeton, averaging 30.2 points per game. He was awarded the 1965 James E. Sullivan Award, presented annually to the United States’ top amateur athlete, the first basketball player to win the honor, and the second Princeton student to win the award, after runner Bill Bonthron in 1934.

Bradley holds a number of Ivy League career records, including total and average points (1,253/29.83, respectively), and free throws made and attempted (409/468, 87.4%). Ivy League season records he holds similarly include total and average points (464/33.14, 1964) and most free throws made (153 in 170 attempts, 90.0%, 1962-1963). He also holds the career point record at Princeton and many other school records, including the top ten slots in the category of total points scored in a game.

Bradley wrote his senior thesis at Princeton about Harry S. Truman, titled “On That Record I Stand”. He graduated with honors and was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship at Worcester College, University of Oxford. Bradley’s tenure at Princeton was the subject of Pulitzer Prize-winning author John McPhee’s first book, A Sense of Where You Are.

Professional

Bill Bradley

Position(s)

Small forward/Shooting guard

Jersey #(s)

24

Born

July 28, 1943 (1943-07-28) (age 66)

Crystal City, Missouri

Career information

Year(s)

19671977

NBA Draft

1965 / Round: n/a / Pick: territorial

Selected by New York Knicks

College

Princeton

Professional team(s)

Olimpia Milano (19651966)

New York Knicks (19671977)

Career stats (NBA)

Points

9,217

Assists

2,533

Steals

209

Stats @ Basketball-Reference.com

Career highlights and awards

New York Knicks #24 retired

1965 USBWA College Player of the Year

NBA All-Star (1973)

Basketball Hall of Fame as player

Bradley’s graduation year, 1965, was the last year that the NBA’s territorial rule was in effect, which gave professional teams first rights to draft players who attended college within 50 miles of the team. The New York Knicks drafted Bradley as a territorial pick the 1965 draft, but he did not sign a contract with the team immediately. While attending Oxford, he played professional basketball briefly in Italy’s Lega Basket Serie A for Olimpia Milano (196566 season), where the team won a European Champions Cup. He signed a contract with the Knicks in April 1967, and was to join the team mid-season, after serving six months in the United States Air Force Reserve. He was released from the military earlier than he had expected, and began practicing with the Knicks in December.

In Bradley’s rookie season, he joined the team late, having also missed the entire preseason. He was placed in the back court, although he had spent his high school and college careers as a forward. Both he and the team did not do well, and in the following season, he was returned to the forward slot. Then, in his third season, the Knicks won their first-ever NBA championship, followed by the second in the 197273 season, when he made the only All-Star Game appearance of his career. Over ten years with the Knicks, Bradley scored a total of 9,217 points, an average of 12.4 points per game, with his best season average being 16.1 points per game in the 197273 season. He was also the first player to win an Olympic gold medal, a European Champions Cup, and an NBA championship, a feat that has only been matched by Manu Ginbili.

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. 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. He noted in the book that he had initially signed only a four-year contract, and that he was uncomfortable using his celebrity status to earn extra money endorsing products as other players did.

Retiring from basketball in 1977, he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1982, along with teammate Dave DeBusschere. 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.

Politics

Politics were 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 Senate chamber when the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed. He spent his time at Oxford focusing on European political and economic history. In 1978, he 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.

Senate

After four years of political campaigning for Democratic candidates around New Jersey, Bradley decided in the summer of 1977 to run for the Senate himself. He felt his time had been well-spent in “paying his dues”. The seat was held by liberal Republican and four-term incumbent Clifford P. Case. Case lost the primary election to anti-tax conservative Jeffrey Bell, who, like Bradley, was 34 years old as the campaign season began. Bradley won the seat in the general election with about 56 percent of the vote. During the campaign, Yale football player John Spagnola was Bradley’s bodyguard and driver.

In the Senate, Bradley acquired a reputation for being somewhat aloof and was thought of as a “policy wonk”, specializing in complex reform initiatives. Among these was the 1986 overhaul of the federal tax code, co-sponsored with Dick Gephardt, which reduced the tax rate schedule to just two brackets, 15 percent and 28 percent, and eliminated many kinds of deductions. Domestic policy initiatives that Bradley led or was associated with included: reform of child support enforcement; legislation concerning lead-related children’s health problems; the Earned Income Tax Credit; campaign finance reform; a re-apportioning of California water rights; and federal budget reform to reduce the deficit, which included, in 1981, supporting Reagan’s spending cuts but opposing his parallel tax cut package, one of only three senators to take this position. He sponsored the Freedom Support Act, an exchange program between the republics of the former Soviet Union and the United States.

Bradley was re-elected in 1984 with 65 percent of the vote against Montclair mayor Mary V. Mochary. 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. In 1990, a controversy over a state income tax increasen which he refused to take a positionurned 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 to run for re-election, publicly declaring American politics “broken.”

While he was a senator, Bradley walked the beaches from Cape May to Sandy Hook, a four-day, 127-mile trip each Labor Day weekend, to assess beach and ocean conditions and talk with constituents.

Following the 1990/91 revelations of Izvestiaconcerning the downing of Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Bill Bradley, along with Carl Levin, Sam Nunn and Ted Kennedy wrote to the Soviet President, Mikhail Gorbachev requesting information about the flight.. Afterwards, on December 10. 1991, Senator Jesse Helms, at that time ranking member of the minority staff of the Committee on Foreign Relations pressed the matter with Boris Yeltsin. The Russian Federation’s 1992 handing over the long concealed and denied Black Box and tapes, together with the Soviet military communications of the shootdown, might well have been the results of these senatorial attempts for more information, beginning with Senator Bradley and the others.

Presidential candidate

Bradley ran in the 2000 presidential primaries, opposing incumbent Vice President Al Gore for his party’s nomination. Bradley campaigned as the liberal alternative to Gore, taking positions to the left of Gore on a number of issues, including universal health care, gun control, and campaign finance reform. On the issue of taxes, Bradley trumpeted his sponsorship of the Tax Reform Act of 1986, which had significantly cut tax rates while abolishing dozens of loopholes. He voiced his belief that the best possible tax code would be one with low rates and no loopholes, but he refused to rule out the idea of raising taxes to pay for his health care program, calling the idea of such a pledge “dishonest”.

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.

Bradley also made child poverty a significant issue in his campaign. He promised to address the minimum wage, expand the Earned Income Tax Credit, allow single parents on welfare to keep their child support payments, make the Dependent Care Tax Credit refundable, build support homes for pregnant teenagers, enroll 400,000 more children in Head Start, and increase the availability of food stamps.

Although Gore was considered the party favorite, Bradley received a number of high-profile endorsements, including senators Paul Wellstone, Bob Kerrey, and Daniel Patrick Moynihan; former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich; former New York City mayor Ed Koch; former Federal Reserve chairman Paul Volcker; and basketball stars Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson. 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. He 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. Bradley later called it a “great honor” to be the presenter when Jackson was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2007.

In March 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.

Recent years

Later in 2000, Bradley was offered the chairmanship of the United States Olympic Committee, which he turned down. In September 2002, Bradley turned down a request from New Jersey Democrats to replace Robert Torricelli on the ballot for his old Senate seat, which another former senator, Frank Lautenberg, accepted. Oxford University awarded Bradley an honorary Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) in 2003, with a citation that described him in part as “..an outstandingly distinguished athlete, a weighty pillar of the Senate, and still a powerful advocate of the weak…”. An Eagle Scout as a boy, Bradley was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. This award is given in recognition of community service more than 25 years after a scout first earns the Eagle badge.

In January 2004, Bradley and Gore both endorsed Howard Dean for President in the 2004 Democratic primaries. In January 2008, Bradley announced that he was supporting Barack Obama in the 2008 Democratic primary. He campaigned for Obama and appeared on political news shows as a surrogate. Bradley’s name was mentioned as a possible replacement for Tom Daschle as nominee for Secretary of Health and Human Services in the Obama administration after Daschle withdrew from consideration; the position went to Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius.

He has worked as a corporate consultant and investment banker. He has been a managing director of Allen & Company LLC, since 2001, and is a member of the board of directors of Starbucks and private company Raydiance. Bill Bradley is also a board member of DonorsChoose.org, an online charity that connects individuals to classrooms in need.

Personal

Bradley married Ernestine (ne Misslbeck) Schlant, a German-born professor of comparative literature, in 1974. She has a daughter, Stephanie, from a previous marriage, and they have one daughter, Theresa Anne.

See also

List of NCAA Division I men’s basketball players with 2000 points and 1000 rebounds

References

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^ Samuel, Ebenezer (2006-06-18). “Daily News Sports Hall of Fame Candidates. And Introducing the Candidates…Bill Bradley”. Daily News. p. 10.

^ Kornheiser, Tony (1982-04-18). “Bill Bradley’s Shooting Star; The Freshman Senator From New Jersey Winning Points With His Party and on the Senate Floor”. The Washington Post. p. G1.

^ “At Princeton, Practice Makes Bradley a Near-Perfect Player”. The New York Times. 1964-02-23. p. S6.

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^ At that time, freshmen were prohibited from playing varsity sports for NCAA member schools. That rule would not be repealed for basketball until the 197273 academic year.

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^ Dupont, Kevin (1983-02-20). “Bradley, DeBusschere Join Hall of Fame”. The New York Times. p. S3.

^ Goldaper, Sam (1984-02-19). “Knicks Beat Nets As King Scores 32″. The New York Times. p. S1.

^ “Jersey Democrats Contend Bradley Will Mean ‘Big Plus’ for the State”. The New York Times. 1978-11-09. p. B8.

^ York, Anthony (1999-10-02). “Who’s the Real Underdog?”. Salon.com. http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/02/bradley/index.html. Retrieved 2009-07-22.

^ Grover, Ronald (1986-03-31). “Does Bill Bradley Have Enough Fire in the Belly?”. BusinessWeek. p. 80.

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^ Jacobson, Joel R. (1987-12-27). “The Ball’s in Bradley’s Court”. p. NJ16. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/27/nyregion/the-ball-s-in-bradley-s-court.html?scp=5&sq;=”bill bradley” 1988 nomination&st=cse. Retrieved 2009-07-22.

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^ O’Neill, James M. (1995-08-28). “Question for Bradley at the Beach / The Retiring Senator Took His Last Annual Shore Walk. But Everyone Wanted to Know if he Would Run”. The Philadelphia Inquirer.

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^ a b Marelius, John (1999-09-09). “Bradley makes candidacy official”. San Diego Union-Tribune. p. A1.

^ Rusher, William A. (1999-09-22). “2000 Race Could Get Interesting”. Contra Costa Times. p. A17.

^ Dao, James (1999-12-07). “Bradley Says Ruling Out A Tax Hike Is Dishonest”. The New York Times. p. A20. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/07/us/bradley-says-ruling-out-a-tax-hike-is-dishonest.html. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

^ Mezzacappa, Dale (2000-01-31). “Candidates T ackling Education Dilemmas They Know Voters Care About School Issues”. Philadelphia Inquirer. p. A01.

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^ “National News Briefs; Minnesota Senator Endorses Bradley”. 1999-04-24. p. A20. http://www.nytimes.com/1999/04/24/us/national-news-briefs-minnesota-senator-endorses-bradley.html. Retrieved 2009-07-28.

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^ Kawakami, Tim (2000-01-16). “Lakers Report; Timberwolves Leave Fisher All Alone, and They Pay for It”. Los Angeles Times. p. D8.

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^ Fee, Kevin (2007-09-08). “Phil Enshrined – Former UND All-American Joins the Hall of Fame”. Grand Forks Herald. p. C1.

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^ “Bradley says no to USOC post”. Star-Ledger. 2000-09-01. p. 52.

^ “Torricelli Substitute Named – Lautenberg Vows Tough Campaign”. The Washington Post. 2002-10-02. p. A1.

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^ Batterson, Paulina Ann (2001). Columbia College: 150 years of courage, commitment, and change. University of Missouri Press. p. 311.

^ “Former Sen. Bill Bradley endorses Howard Dean”. Southern Illinoisan. 2007-01-07. p. B6.

^ Political Radar: Bill Bradley Backs Barack Obama

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Further reading

Bradley, Bill The New American Story (Random House, 2007) ISBN 978-1-40006-507-3

Bradley, Bill The Journey from Here (Artisan, 2000) ISBN 1-57965-165-8

Bradley, Bill Values of the Game (Artisan, 1998) ISBN 1-57965-116-X

Bradley, Bill Time Present, Time Past: A Memoir (Diane Pub Co, 1996) ISBN 0-7881-5778-7

Bradley, Bill Life on the Run (Bantam Books, 1977) ISBN 0-553-11055-1

McPhee, John A Sense of Where You Are: Bill Bradley at Princeton (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965) ISBN 0-374-51485-2

External links

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United States Senate

Preceded by

Clifford P. Case

United States Senator (Class 2) from New Jersey

19791997

Served alongside: Harrison A. Williams, Nicholas F. Brady, Frank Lautenberg

Succeeded by

Robert Torricelli

Party political offices

Preceded by

Paul J. Krebs

Democratic Nominee for the U.S. Senate (Class 2) from New Jersey

1978, 1984, 1990

Succeeded by

Robert Torricelli

Preceded by

Ann Richards

Keynote Speaker of the Democratic National Convention

Along with Barbara Jordan and Zell Miller

1992

Succeeded by

Evan Bayh

Sporting positions

Preceded by

Walt Hazzard

NCAA Basketball Tournament

Most Outstanding Player (men’s)

1965

Succeeded by

Jerry Chambers

Honorary titles

Preceded by

Joe Biden

Youngest Member of the United States Senate

1979-1981

Succeeded by

Don Nickles

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1964 Olympic Champions Men’s Basketball team – United States

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NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Tournament Most Outstanding Player

1939: J. Hull  | 1940: M. Huffman  | 1941: J. Kotz  | 1942: H. Dallmar  | 1943: K. Sailors  | 1944: A. Ferrin  | 1945: B. Kurland  | 1946: B. Kurland  | 1947: G. Kaftan | 1948: A. Groza  | 1949: A. Groza  | 1950: I. Dambrot | 1951: B. Spivey  | 1952: C. Lovellette  | 1953: B. Born  | 1954: T. Gola  | 1955: B. Russell  | 1956: H. Lear  | 1957: W. Chamberlain  | 1958: E. Baylor  | 1959: J. West  | 1960: J. Lucas  | 1961: J. Lucas  | 1962: P. Hogue  | 1963: A. Heyman  | 1964: W. Hazzard  | 1965: B. Bradley  | 1966: J. Chambers  | 1967: L. Alcindor  | 1968: L. Alcindor  | 1969: L. Alcindor  | 1970: S. Wicks  | 1971: H. Porter*  | 1972: B. Walton  | 1973: B. Walton  | 1974: D. Thompson  | 1975: R. Washington  | 1976: K. Benson  | 1977: B. Lee  | 1978: J. Givens  | 1979: M. Johnson  | 1980: D. Griffith | 1981: I. Thomas  | 1982: J. Worthy  | 1983: H. Olajuwon  | 1984: P. Ewing  | 1985: E. Pinckney  | 1986: P. Ellison  | 1987: K. Smart  | 1988: D. Manning  | 1989: G. Rice  | 1990: A. Hunt  | 1991: C. Laettner  | 1992: B. Hurley  | 1993: D. Williams  | 1994: C. Williamson  | 1995: E. O’Bannon  | 1996: T. Delk  | 1997: M. Simon  | 1998: J. Sheppard  | 1999: R. Hamilton  | 2000: M. Cleaves  | 2001: S. Battier  | 2002: J. Dixon  | 2003: C. Anthony  | 2004: E. Okafor  | 2005: S. May  | 2006: J. Noah  | 2007: C. Brewer  | 2008: M. Chalmers  | 2009: W. Ellington

*Ruled ineligible after tournament

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Associated Press (AP) College Men’s Basketball Player of the Year Award winners

1961: J. Lucas  | 1962: J. Lucas  | 1963: A. Heyman  | 1964: G. Bradds  | 1965: B. Bradley  | 1966: C. Russell  | 1967: L. Alcindor  | 1968: E. Hayes  | 1969: L. Alcindor  | 1970: P. Maravich  | 1971: A. Carr  | 1972: B. Walton  | 1973: B. Walton  | 1974: D. Thompson  | 1975: D. Thompson  | 1976: S. May  | 1977: M. Johnson  | 1978: A. Lee  | 1979: L. Bird  | 1980: M. Aguirre | 1981: R. Sampson  | 1982: R. Sampson  | 1983: R. Sampson  | 1984: M. Jordan  | 1985: P. Ewing  | 1986: W. Berry  | 1987: D. Robinson  | 1988: H. Hawkins  | 1989: S. Elliott  | 1990: L. Simmons  | 1991: S. O’Neal  | 1992: C. Laettner  | 1993: C. Cheaney  | 1994: G. Robinson  | 1995: J. Smith  | 1996: M. Camby  | 1997: T. Duncan  | 1998: A. Jamison  | 1999: E. Brand  | 2000: K. Martin  | 2001: S. Battier  | 2002: J. Williams  | 2003: D. West  | 2004: J. Nelson  | 2005: A. Bogut  | 2006: J. Redick  | 2007: K. Durant  | 2008: T. Hansbrough  | 2009: B. Griffin

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Oscar Robertson Trophy winners

1959: O. Robertson  | 1960: O. Robertson  | 1961: J. Lucas  | 1962: J. Lucas  | 1963: A. Heyman  | 1964: W. Hazzard  | 1965: B. Bradley  | 1966: C. Russell  | 1967: L. Alcindor  | 1968: L. Alcindor  | 1969: P. Maravich  | 1970: P. Maravich  | 1971: S. Wicks  | 1972: B. Walton  | 1973: B. Walton  | 1974: B. Walton  | 1975: D. Thompson  | 1976: A. Dantley  | 1977: M. Johnson  | 1978: P. Ford  | 1979: L. Bird  | 1980: M. Aguirre  | 1981: R. Sampson  | 1982: R. Sampson  | 1983: R. Sampson  | 1984: M. Jordan  | 1985: C. Mullin  | 1986: W. Berry  | 1987: D. Robinson  | 1988: H. Hawkins  | 1989: D. Ferry  | 1990: L. Simmons  | 1991: L. Johnson  | 1992: C. Laettner  | 1993: C. Cheaney  | 1994: G. Robinson  | 1995: E. O’Bannon  | 1996: M. Camby  | 1997: T. Duncan  | 1998: A. Jamison  | 1999: E. Brand  | 2000: K. Martin  | 2001: S. Battier  | 2002: J. Williams  | 2003: D. West  | 2004: J. Nelson  | 2005: A. Bogut  | 2006: A. Morrison & J. Redick  | 2007: K. Durant  | 2008: T. Hansbrough  | 2009: B. Griffin

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UPI College Basketball Player of the Year Award winners

1955: T. Gola  | 1956: B. Russell  | 1957: C. Forte  | 1958: O. Robertson  | 1959: O. Robertson  | 1960: O. Robertson  | 1961: J. Lucas  | 1962: J. Lucas  | 1963: A. Heyman  | 1964: G. Bradds  | 1965: B. Bradley  | 1966: C. Russell  | 1967: L. Alcindor  | 1968: E. Hayes  | 1969: L. Alcindor  | 1970: P. Maravich  | 1971: A. Carr  | 1972: B. Walton  | 1973: B. Walton  | 1974: B. Walton  | 1975: D. Thompson  | 1976: S. May  | 1977: M. Johnson  | 1978: B. Lee  | 1979: L. Bird  | 1980: M. Aguirre | 1981: R. Sampson  | 1982: R. Sampson  | 1983: R. Sampson  | 1984: M. Jordan  | 1985: C. Mullin  | 1986: W. Berry  | 1987: D. Robinson  | 1988: H. Hawkins  | 1989: D. Ferry  | 1990: L. Simmons  | 1991: S. O’Neal  | 1992: J. Jackson  | 1993: C. Cheaney  | 1994: G. Robinson  | 1995: J. Smith  | 1996: M. Camby

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1964 NCAA Men’s Basketball Consensus All-Americans

First Team

Gary Bradds  Bill Bradley  Walt Hazzard  Cotton Nash  Dave Stallworth

Second Team

Ron Bonham  Mel Counts  Fred Hetzel  Jeff Mullins  Cazzie Russell

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1965 NCAA Men’s Basketball Consensus All-Americans

First Team

Rick Barry  Bill Bradley  Gail Goodrich  Fred Hetzel  Cazzie Russell

Second Team

Bill Buntin  Wayne Estes  Clyde Lee  Dave Schellhase  Dave Stallworth

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1965 NBA Draft

Territorial pick

Bill Bradley  Bill Buntin  Gail Goodrich

First round

Fred Hetzel  Rick Barry  Dave Stallworth  Jerry Sloan  Billy Cunningham  Jim Washington  Nate Bowman  Ollie Johnson

Second round

Wilbert Frazier  Dick Van Arsdale  Tom Van Arsdale  Tal Brody  Jesse Branson  Hal Blevins  Flynn Robinson  John Fairchild  Ron Watts

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Sullivan Award winners

1930:  Jones | 1931: Berlinger | 1932: Bausch | 1933: Cunningham | 1934: Bonthron | 1935: Little | 1936: Morris | 1937: Budge | 1938: Lash | 1939: Burk | 1940: Rice | 1941: MacMitchell | 1942: Warmerdam | 1943: Dodds | 1944: Curtis | 1945: Blanchard | 1946: Tucker | 1947: Kelly | 1948: Mathias | 1949: Button | 1950: Wilt | 1951: Richards | 1952: Ashenfelter | 1953: Lee | 1954: Whitfield | 1955: Dillard | 1956: McCormick | 1957: Morrow | 1958: Davis | 1959: O’Brien | 1960: Johnson | 1961: Rudolph | 1962: Beatty | 1963: Pennel | 1964:  Schollander | 1965: Bradley | 1966: Ryun | 1967: Matson | 1968: Meyer | 1969: Toomey | 1970: Kinsella | 1971: Spitz | 1972: Shorter | 1973: Walton | 1974: Wohlhuter | 1975: Shaw | 1976: Jenner | 1977: Naber | 1978: Caulkins | 1979: Thomas | 1980: Heiden | 1981: Lewis | 1982: Decker | 1983: Moses | 1984: Louganis | 1985: Benoit | 1986: Joyner-Kersee | 1987: Abbott | 1988: Griffith-Joyner | 1989: Evans | 1990: Smith | 1991: Powell | 1992: Blair | 1993: Ward | 1994: Jansen | 1995: Baumgartner | 1996: Johnson | 1997: Manning | 1998: Holdsclaw | 1999: C. Miller & K. Miller | 2000: Gardner | 2001: Kwan | 2002: Hughes | 2003: Phelps | 2004: Hamm | 2005: Redick | 2006: Long | 2007: Tebow | 2008: Johnson

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Olimpia Simmenthal Milano 1965-66 Euroleague Champions

Bradley | Thoren | Masini | Vianello | Riminucci | Iellini | Pieri | Longhi | Ongaro | Binda | Gnocchi | Fenelli | Coach Rubini

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New York Knicks

Founded in 1946 Based in New York City, New York

The franchise

Franchise All-Time roster Head coaches Seasons Current season

Arenas

Madison Square Garden III 69th Regiment Armory Madison Square Garden IV

Head coaches

Cohalan Lapchick Boryla Levane Braun Donovan Gallatin McGuire Holzman Reed Holzman H. Brown Hill Pitino Jackson MacLeod Riley Nelson Van Gundy Chaney Williams Wilkens Williams L. Brown Thomas D’Antoni

General managers

Podesta Boryla Donovan Holzman Donovan DeBusschere Stirling Bianchi Checketts Grunfeld Layden Thomas Walsh

D-League affiliate

Springfield Armor

Administration

Madison Square Garden, L.P. (Owner; subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corp.) James Dolan (Chairman & CEO) Donnie Walsh (President & GM of Basketball Ops.) Mike D’Antoni (Head Coach)

Notable figures

Dick Barnett Walt Bellamy Bill Bradley Carl Braun Marcus Camby Bill Cartwright Dave Checketts Nat “Sweetwater” Clifton Dave DeBusschere Patrick Ewing Walt Frazier Harry Gallatin Marty Glickman Ernie Grunfeld Richie Guerin Red Holzman Allan Houston Ned Irish Mark Jackson Phil Jackson Larry Johnson Bernard King Jerry Lucas Anthony Mason Stephon Marbury Dick McGuire Earl Monroe Charles Oakley Cal Ramsey Willis Reed Micheal Ray Richardson Pat Riley Nate Robinson Latrell Sprewell John Starks Trent Tucker Kiki Vandeweghe Jeff Van Gundy Gerald Wilkins Max Zaslofsky

Retired numbers

10 12 15 15 19 22 24 33 613

NBA Championships (2)

1970 1973

Rivals

Philadelphia 76ers Boston Celtics Chicago Bulls Indiana Pacers Miami Heat New Jersey Nets Toronto Raptors

Culture and Lore

Willis Reed limping onto the court Eddie Spike Lee Hue Hollins 1994 NBA Finals 1999 NBA Finals Scott Layden Isiah Thomas Knickerbocker Knicksuggets brawl Whatever Happened to Micheal Ray? Mike Walczewski George Kalinsky

Media

TV: MSG Network Radio: WEPN-AM Current announcers: Mike Breen Walt Frazier Gus Johnson John Andariese Kelly Tripucka Former announcers: Marv Albert Bob Wolff

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New York Knicks 196970 NBA Champions

5 May | 6 Riordan | 9 Stallworth | 10 Frazier | 12 Barnett | 16 Warren | 17 Bowman | 18 Jackson | 19 Reed (Finals MVP) | 20 Hosket | 22 DeBusschere | 24 Bradley | 33 Russell | Coach Holzman

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New York Knicks 197273 NBA Champions

7 Meminger | 10 Frazier | 12 Barnett | 15 Monroe | 17 Bibby | 18 Jackson | 19 Reed (Finals MVP) | 22 DeBusschere | 24 Bradley | 32 Lucas | 40 Gianelli | 43 Wingo | Coach Holzman

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Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1983

Players

Bill Bradley Dave DeBusschere Jack Twyman

Coaches

Dean Smith

Contributors

Louis Wilke

Referees

Lloyd Leith

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Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Based in Springfield, Massachusetts

Members

 

Coaches (82)

Allen Anderson Auerbach Auriemma Barmore Barry Blood Boeheim Brown Calhoun Cann Carlson Carnesecca Carnevale Carril Case Chancellor Chaney Conradt Crum Daly Dean Daz-Miguel Diddle Drake Ferrndiz Gaines Gamba Gardner Gill Gomelsky Gunter Hannum Harshman Haskins Hickey Hobson Holzman Iba Jackson Julian Keaney Keogan Knight Krzyzewski Kundla Lambert Litwack Loeffler Lonborg McCutchan A. McGuire F. McGuire Meanwell Meyer Miller Moore Nikoli Novosel Olson Ramsay Riley Rubini Rupp Rush Sachs Sharman Shelton Sloan Smith Stringer Summitt Taylor Thompson Wade Watts Wilkens Williams Wooden Woolpert Wootten Yow

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as players

 

Contributors (56)

Abbott Bee Biasone H. Brown W. Brown Bunn Colangelo Davidson Douglas Duer Embry Fagan Fisher Fleisher Gavitt Gottlieb Gulick Harrison Hearn Hepp Hickox Hinkle Irish Jones Kennedy Lemon Liston Lloyd McLendon Mokray Morgan Morgenweck Naismith Newell Newton J. O’Brien L. O’Brien Olsen Podoloff Porter Reid Ripley Saperstein Schabinger St. John Stagg Stankovi Steitz Taylor Teague Tower Trester Vitale Wells Wilke Zollner

 

Players (139)

Guards

Archibald Beckman Belov Bing Blazejowski Borgmann Brennan Cervi Cousy Davies Drexler Dumars Frazier Friedman Gervin Goodrich Greer Hanson Haynes Holman Hyatt Jeannette Johnson K. Jones S. Jones Jordan Lieberman Maravich Marcari Martin McDermott McGuire Meyers Monroe Murphy Page Petrovi Robertson Roosma Russell Schommer Sedran Sharman Steinmetz Stockton Thomas Thompson Vandivier Wanzer West Wilkens Woodard Wooden

Forwards

Arizin Barkley Barry Baylor Bird Bradley Cunningham Curry Dalipagi Dantley DeBusschere Dehnert Endacott English Erving Foster Fulks Gale Gates Gola Hagan Havlicek Hawkins Hayes Heinsohn Howell Lucas Luisetti McAdoo B. McCracken J. McCracken McHale Mikkelsen Miller Pettit Phillip Pollard Ramsey Schayes Schmidt Thompson Twyman White Wilkins Worthy Yardley

Centers

Abdul-Jabbar Barlow Bellamy Chamberlain Cooper osi Cowens Crawford DeBernardi Donovan Ewing Gallatin Gruenig Harris-Stewart Houbregs Issel Johnson Johntson Krause Kurland Lanier Lovellette Lapchick Macauley Malone Meneghin Mikan Murphy Olajuwon Parish Reed Risen Robinson Russell Semjonova Thurmond Unseld Wachter Walton

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches

 

Referees (13)

Enright Hepbron Hoyt Kennedy Leith Mihalik Nucatola Quigley Rudolph Shirley Strom Tobey Walsh

 

Teams (6)

Buffalo Germans The First Team Harlem Globetrotters New York Rens Original Celtics 1966 Texas Western

Awards

Bob Cousy Award Curt Gowdy Media Award John Bunn Award Frances Pomeroy Naismith Award

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United States Senators from New Jersey

Class 1

Elmer Rutherfurd Davenport Schureman Ogden Condit Lambert Wilson Southard McIlvaine Bateman Dickerson Southard W. Dayton R. Stockton Thomson Field J. Wall Wright F. T. Frelinghuysen J. Stockton Randolph Sewell Blodgett J. Smith J. Kean Martine J. Frelinghuysen Edwards H. Kean Moore Milton Barbour Walsh H. Smith Williams Brady Lautenberg Corzine Menendez

Class 2

Paterson Dickinson F. Frelinghuysen Richard Stockton J. Dayton Kitchell Condit Dickerson T. Frelinghuysen G. Wall Miller Wright Ten Eyck J. Stockton Catell F. T. Frelinghuysen McPherson Sewell Dryden Briggs Hughes Baird Edge Baird, Jr. Morrow Barbour Smathers Hawkes Hendrickson Case Bradley Torricelli Lautenberg

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United States presidential election, 2000

General election results  State results  Florida results

Democratic Party

2000 Democratic National Convention  Primaries

Candidates

Bill Bradley   Al Gore (presidential campaign)

VP candidate

Joe Lieberman

Republican Party

2000 Republican National Convention  Primaries

Candidates

Lamar Alexander   Gary Bauer  George W. Bush (presidential campaign)  Elizabeth Dole  Steve Forbes   Orrin Hatch  Alan Keyes  John McCain  Dan Quayle  Harold Stassen

VP candidate

Dick Cheney

Additional key figures

Katherine Harris  Jeb Bush  David Boies  Theodore Olson  James Baker  Ron Klain  Warren Christopher  Michael Whouley  Benjamin Ginsberg  Bob Butterworth  Joe Allbaugh  Mac Stipanovic  Craig Waters  Theresa LePore  Carol Roberts

Election Day

Florida Central Voter File (scrub list)  Volusia error  Chad  Butterfly ballot

Aftermath and

legal proceedings

Florida election recount  Brooks Brothers riot  Palm Beach County Canvassing Board v. Harris (Harris I)  Gore v. Harris (Harris II)  Bush v. Gore

Films

Recount (2008)   Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election (2002)

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Starbucks Corporation

Corporate Directors:

Barbara Bass  Howard Behar  Bill Bradley  Mellody Hobson  Olden Lee  Greg Maffei  Howard Schultz  James Shennan  Javier Teruel  Myron Ullman  Craig Weatherup

Assets & Products:

15th Avenue Coffee and Tea  Ethos Water  Hear Music  Pasqua Coffee  Seattle’s Best Coffee  Tazo Tea Company  Torrefazione Italia

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