Bill Bradey
Bill Bradley 7/28/43 ~ Bill Bradley College: Princeton and Oxford Height: 6-5
Weight: 205 lbs. Average Points Per Game is 12.4 Rebounds in his Career 2354
Assists in Career 2533 Points in Career 9217 Bill Bradley started off his life
in Crystal City, Missouri. He was born on July 28, 1943. He took his first shot
with a basketball when he was 9 at the Crystal City’s YMCA. He started playing
basketball for his local high school as a freshman. He became captain of his
high school team his second year. He often went to the gym when he didn’t have a
team practice. He would ask his coach if he could use the gym on the off days of
practice. Bill then moved on from high school and made up his mind to go to
Princeton University. He was an all American is college and was also asked to
play on the Olympic team. That team went on to be gold medallists. He later
broke the record for most points in a single NCAA tournament. He also became the
first basketball player to get the Sullivan Award for the nations best amateur
athlete. Aside from all his basketball he was a good student getting strait B’s.
Bill was one of the thirty-two people of the U.S. chosen to go to Oxford
University in England.
Bill then came back after two years of little basketball
to be drafted by the knicks. He signed a three year contract for 500,000. That
was unusual for a basketball player to get. Most of them got 50,00 to 100,00. He
then had to spend six months in the air force. After the six months he started
playing for the knicks. But he wasn’t as good as he was in college because, he
didn’t have as much practice. But managed to start on the knicks great team the
second year of his career. Bill won the rookie of the year award. In 1971 he was
thinking about dropping out of basketball and going for politics but then he hit
his career high 38 and stayed. He also got three hundred rebounds and assists.
Bill was then chosen for the all-star game which he thought were only for the
young starts not the old but he thought wrong. He played twelve minutes and
scored four points. Bill brought his team to 4 championships. Bill had his high
games and his low games. He played good games will more then ten assists,
points, rebounds and even blocks. In 1972-1973 he was averaging 16 points. In
1976 he decided to retire. He averaged four points and twelve minutes per game.
His scoring average of his career was 12.4. After he retired he wanted to join
in politics. Bradley won his democratic election. He didn’t just stop playing
basketball he stop watching basketball in 1977. He did this all for his
daughter. He was then elected for the Basketball Hall of Fame. He later became
an educator at Stanford, Maryland, and Notre Dame. That is my report on Bill
Bradley.
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