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A native of Crystal City, Missouri and the son of Warren Bradley and Susie Bradley, Bill Bradley was a Rhodes Scholar and basketball player at Princeton University. He served as captain of the US Olympic basketball team in 1964 and received the James E. Sullivan Award, presented to the United States' top amateur athlete, in 1965.
After graduating from Princeton and playing professional basketball briefly in Italy, he was recruited by the New York KnicksThe New York Knicks (or New York Knickerbockers are a National Basketball Association team based in New York, New York. Founded 1946, as part of the Basketball Association of America Formerly known as Home Arena Madison Square Garden Uniform colors Blue a of the National Basketball AssociationNBA redirects here, as it is the most common usage of the abbreviation; for more uses, see NBA (disambiguation). The National Basketball Association of the United States and Canada, commonly known as the NBA is the premier professional basketball league i. In ten years playing forward for the Knicks, "Dollar Bill," as he was known, scored a total of 9,217 points and won two NBA championship s, in 1970Events January events January 1 Construction begins on Arcosanti, by Paolo Soleri, in Mayer, Arizona, located 65, miles north of Phoenix, Arizona. January 1 Unix epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. January 12 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian civil war. January and 1973Events January events January 1 United Kingdom, Ireland, and Denmark enter the European Economic Community now known as the European Union January 3 Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) sells the New York Yankees for $10 million to a 12-person syndicate led. Bradley retired from basketball in 1977For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). Events January 1 First woman Episcopal priest ordained January 6 EMI sacks the Sex Pistols January 18 Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious " legionnaire's disease" Januar. In 1982Events January January 6 William Bonin is convicted of being the "freeway killer". January 8 AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, disappears in the Sahara du, he was inducted into the Basketball Hall of FameThe Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honors players who have shown extreme skill at basketball, all-time great coaches and referees, and other major contributors to the game. A few entire teams have been inducted as well, including the Buffalo Ge, and in 1984This page is about the year 1984. For other uses of 1984, see 1984 (disambiguation). 1984 is a leap year starting on Sunday (link shows calendar). Events January January 1 Brunei becomes a fully independent state January 1 AT&T is broken up into 22 indepe the Knicks retired his number 24 jersey.