The Outside shooter and The Fighting Pilot

摘要

Bill bradley's life story seems sim-ple to tell—and to sell. The narrative starts at a faded free-throw line on a blacktop be-hind his boyhood home in Crystal City, Mo. "I spent thousands of hours back here," he told a friend, Susan Reingold, on the morn-ing he announced his presidential candida-cy. Then he picked up a basketball, toed the line, closed his eyes—and swished a shot through the rusty hoop. This Sunday, Bradley will be back on the court. But this one is in Madison Square Garden, where he was lionized as a player for the New York Knicks. In what could be the biggest fund-raiser of the 2000 campaign, dozens of past and present NBA stars—including Ka-reem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, Julius Erving and Grant Hill-will join him in schmoozing and shooting hoops with anyone willing to pay $1,000 for the privilege.