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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 Party (United States)|Democratic]] [[United States Senate|U.S. senator]] from [[New Jersey]] (1979–1997). He ran for [[2000 Democratic Party presidential primaries|the Democratic Party's nomination for president]] in the [[2000 United States presidential election|2000 election]], which he lost to Vice President [[Al Gore]].
Bradley was born and raised in [[Crystal City, Missouri]], a small town {{convert|45|mi}} south of [[St. Louis]]. He excelled at basketball from an early age. He did well academically and was an all-county and all-state basketball player in high school. He was offered 75 college scholarships, but declined them all to attend [[Princeton University]]. He won a gold medal as a member of the [[1964 United States men's Olympic basketball team|1964 Olympic basketball team]] and was the [[NCAA
While at Oxford, Bradley played one season of professional basketball in Europe and eventually decided to join the [[New York Knicks]] in the 1967–68 season, after serving six months in the [[Air Force Reserve]]. He spent his entire ten-year professional basketball career playing for the Knicks, winning NBA titles in 1970 and 1973. Retiring in 1977, he ran for a seat in the [[United States Senate]] [[1978 United States Senate election in New Jersey|the following year]], from his adopted home state of [[New Jersey]]. He was re-elected in [[1984 United States Senate election in New Jersey|1984]] and [[1990 United States Senate election in New Jersey|1990]], left the Senate in 1997, and was an unsuccessful candidate for the [[2000 Democratic Party presidential primaries|2000 Democratic presidential nomination]].
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==Early life==
Bradley was born on July 28, 1943, in [[Crystal City, Missouri]], the only child of Warren (June 22, 1901{{spaced ndash}}October 1, 1994),<ref name=Part6>{{cite news |title=Meandering Toward A Destination Certain |
{{rquote|right|Bradley must surely be the only great basketball player who wintered regularly in [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]] until he was thirteen years old.|''The New Yorker'', 1965{{r|mcphee}}}}
Bradley began playing basketball at the age of nine. He was a star at [[Crystal City High School (Missouri)|Crystal City High School]], where he scored 3,068 points in his scholastic career, was twice named [[All-America]]n, and was elected to the Missouri Association of Student Councils.{{r|mcphee}} He received 75 college [[athletic scholarship|scholarship]] offers, although he applied to only five schools<ref name=project/><ref name=broken>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/08/17/nyregion/bradley-says-he-won-t-seek-4th-term.html?pagewanted=1 |title=Bradley Says He Won't Seek 4th Term |author=Levy, Clifford J. |date=August 17, 1995 |access-date=July 22, 2009 |work=The New York Times |page=A1}}</ref><ref name=gelman196501>{{cite magazine |title=The Unusual All-American|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MARoY5QGnPAC&q=%22bill%20bradley%22%2075%20college%20scholarships&pg=PA19|magazine=[[Boys' Life]] |author=Gelman, Steve|date=January 1965 |access-date=February 16, 2011 |pages=19–21}}</ref> and only scored a 485 out of 800 on the [[SAT#Reading Test|Verbal portion of the SAT]],<ref name=time20000207>{{cite news|title=Numbers: Feb. 7, 2000 |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,996037,00.html |access-date=February 17, 2011 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]|date=February 7, 2000 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110123125058/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0%2C9171%2C996037%2C00.html |archive-date=January 23, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> 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.<ref name=kabaservice20000127>{{cite news|last=Kabaservice|first=Geoff|title=Bill Bradley's SAT Scores|url=http://www.slate.com/id/73787/|access-date=February 17, 2011|newspaper=Slate|date=January 27, 2000| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110201035503/http://www.slate.com/id/73787/| archive-date= February 1, 2011 | url-status= live}}</ref>
Bradley's basketball ability benefited from his height—{{convert|5|ft|9|in}} in the seventh grade, {{convert|6|ft|1|in}} in the eighth grade,{{r|gelman196501}} and his adult size of {{convert|6|ft|5|in}} by the age of 15{{r|mcphee}}—and unusually wide peripheral vision,{{r|mcphee}} which he worked to improve by focusing on faraway objects while walking.<ref>{{cite news |title=Daily News Sports Hall of Fame Candidates. And Introducing the Candidates ... Bill Bradley |author=Samuel, Ebenezer |page=10 |work=[[New York Daily News]] |date=June 18, 2006}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Bill Bradley's Shooting Star; The Freshman Senator From New Jersey Winning Points With His Party and on the Senate Floor |
==Basketball==
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[[File:Bill Bradley NYWTS.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Bradley practicing at Princeton in 1964]]
Bradley wore #42 in honor of childhood hero [[Dick Kazmaier]], who had won the [[Heisman Trophy]] at Princeton.{{r|mcphee}}{{rp|73}} He was so superior to the rest of the freshman team that coach Eddie Donovan chose lineups by saying "You, you, you, you, and Bradley".{{r|gellman19991213}} Bradley averaged more than 30 points per game for the freshman team,<ref>At that time, freshmen were prohibited from playing varsity sports for NCAA member schools. That rule would not be repealed for basketball until the 1972–73 academic year.</ref> at one point making 57 consecutive [[free throw]]s,<ref name=allamer1>{{cite news |title=Pick 3 On All-American Five |publisher=[[Chicago Daily Defender]] |date=February 19, 1963 |page=24}}</ref> breaking a record set by a member of the NBA's [[Syracuse Nationals]]. The following year, as a [[Sophomore year|sophomore]], he was a varsity starter in [[Butch van Breda Kolff]]'s first year as coach of the [[Princeton Tigers men's basketball|Tigers]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Princeton Quintet's New Coach To Stress a 'New Look' Offense |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/11/25/archives/princeton-quintets-new-coach-to-stress-a-new-look-offense-van-breda.html |work=The New York Times |date=November 25, 1962 |page=232}}</ref>
In his sophomore year Bradley scored 40 points in an 82–81 loss to St. Joseph's and was named to ''[[Sporting News|The Sporting News]]'' All-American first team in early 1963. The coach of the [[St. Louis Hawks]] believed he was ready to play professional basketball.<ref name=allamer1/> The [[Associated Press|AP]] and [[United Press International]] polls both put Bradley on the [[Reserve team|second team]], establishing him as the top sophomore player in the country;<ref>{{cite news |title=Heyman of Duke Tops All-Star Fives |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1963/03/01/archives/heyman-of-duke-tops-allstar-fives-4-players-named-to-both-quintets.html |work=The New York Times |date=March 1, 1963 |page=16}}</ref> Bradley also hit .316 as a first baseman for the baseball team.{{r|mann19660207}} The following year ''The Sporting News'' again named him to its All-American team as its only junior, and as its player of the year.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bradley of Princeton Tops All-America Basketball List |work=The New York Times|date=February 23, 1964 |author=UPI |page=S6|author-link=United Press International}}</ref> At the Olympic basketball trials in April 1964, Bradley played guard instead of his usual forward position but was still a top performer.<ref>{{cite news |title=Bradley of Princeton (at Guard) Sets Pace in Olympic Tryouts |author=White, Gordon S. |work=The New York Times |date=April 4, 1964 |page=21}}</ref>{{r|gelman196501}} He was one of three chosen unanimously for the Olympic team, the youngest chosen, and the only undergraduate. The Olympic team won its sixth consecutive gold medal.{{r|mcphee}}
As a senior and team captain<ref>{{cite news |title=Princeton's Five Elects Bradley |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/10/archives/princetons-five-elects-bradley-tiger-allamerica-forward-chosen-team.html |work=The New York Times |date=April 10, 1964 |page=47}}</ref> in the 1964–1965 season, Bradley became a [[Celebrity|household name]].{{r|mann19660207}} Only the third tallest on his team,{{r|mcphee}} but called "easily the No. 1 player in college basketball today",{{r|gelman196501}} "the best amateur basketball player in the United States", and "The White [[Oscar Robertson]]",{{r|mcphee}} he scored 41 points before fouling out of the game in an 80–78 loss to [[Michigan Wolverines men's basketball|Michigan]]{{r|mann19660207}} and their star player [[Cazzie Russell]] in the 1964 ECAC Holiday Basketball semi-final at Madison Square Garden, then led Princeton to the [[1965 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament|NCAA Final Four]]<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2006/12/13/16976 |title=No. 1: Bill Bradley '65 |newspaper=The Daily Princetonian |access-date=January 15, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110517232402/http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2006/12/13/16976/ |archive-date=May 17, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> after defeating heavy favorite [[Providence Friars men's basketball|Providence]] and [[Jimmy Walker (basketball, born 1944)|Jimmy Walker]] by 40 points.{{r|mann19660207}} The team then lost to Michigan in the semifinals, but Bradley scored a record 58 points in the consolation game to lead the team to victory against [[Wichita State Shockers men's basketball|Wichita State]] and earn himself the Final Four MVP.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.awardsandhonors.com/award/ncaa_basketball_tournament_mvp_men.html |title=Web Page Under Construction |access-date=December 20, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707201523/http://www.awardsandhonors.com/award/ncaa_basketball_tournament_mvp_men.html |archive-date=July 7, 2011 }}</ref> 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,<ref name=sullivan>{{cite news |title=Sullivan Award Is Voted to Bill Bradley |author=McGowen, Deane |work=The New York Times |date=January 30, 1966 |access-date=July 31, 2009 |page=S1 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/01/30/archives/sullivan-award-is-voted-to-bill-bradley-becomes-first-basketball.html?scp=1}}</ref> and the second Princeton student to win the award, after [[Track and field athletics|runner]] [[Bill Bonthron]] in 1934.<ref name=sullivan/>
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). Bradley 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,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.princetonbasketball.com/blog/?cat=24 |title=Princeton Player Records |date=October 11, 2008 |access-date=August 3, 2009 |publisher=Princetonbasketball.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170719161123/http://www.princetonbasketball.com/?cat=24|archive-date=July 19, 2017 }}</ref> but likely could have scored many more points if he had not insisted so often on passing the ball, in what his coaches called "Bradley's hope passes", to inferior teammates closer to the basket; he only emphasized his own scoring when Princeton was behind{{r|mcphee}}{{rp|46}} or, as during the Wichita State game, his teammates forced Bradley to shoot by returning passes to him.{{r|mann19660207}} Van Breda Kolff often encouraged Bradley to be more of a "one on one" player, stating that "Bill is not hungry. At least ninety percent of the time, when he gets the ball, he is looking for a pass."{{r|mcphee}}{{rp|46}}
The coach described Bradley as "not the most physical player. Others can run faster and jump higher. The difference ... is self-discipline."{{r|mcphee}} Afraid that he was not qualified for Princeton, Bradley recalled that after almost failing freshman French and biology, he "just lived in the library".{{r|gellman19991213}} 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,{{r|gelman196501}} frequently spoke for the [[Fellowship of Christian Athletes]] around the country, and taught Sunday school at the [[Nassau Presbyterian Church|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.{{r|mcphee}} 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]].{{r|gellman19991213}}
Others noted that Bradley seemed to lack enemies despite great athletic, academic, and social success. Classmate [[Larry Lucchino]] described Bradley as having an "aura ... of near-idolatry". All 15 [[Princeton University eating clubs]] asked him to join;{{r|gellman19991213}} Bradley chose [[Cottage Club]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=About the Cottage Club|url=https://www.cottageclub.net/about-cottage-club|access-date=January 3, 2021|website=University Cottage Club}}</ref> Fans shouted "Don't touch God!" when opposing players' bodies hit his on court. Roommates helped answer dozens of letters each week asking for autographs, mementos, and public appearances.{{r|gellman19991213}} Each year improving from mediocre freshman grades, Bradley graduated ''[[magna cum laude]]''{{r|kabaservice20000127}} after writing his [[senior thesis]] about [[Harry S. Truman]]'s [[Electoral history of Harry S. Truman|1940 United States Senate campaign]],{{r|mann19660207}} titled "On That Record I Stand",<ref>{{Cite thesis |last=Bradley |first=William Warren Jr. |title="On That Record I Stand" – Harry S. Truman's Fight for the Senatorship in 1940 |date=1965 |degree=History |publisher=Princeton University |url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/dsp01cc08hg870}}</ref><ref name=athlete>{{cite news |title=Athletes Prospering in Political Arena |
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[[File:1965–66 Simmenthal Milano - Bill Bradley.jpg|thumb|Bradley playing for [[Olimpia Milano]] in the 1965–66 season]]
Bradley's graduation year, 1965, was the last year that the [[National Basketball Association|NBA's]] [[NBA territorial pick|territorial rule]] was in effect, which gave professional teams first rights to [[draft (sports)|draft]] players who attended college within 50 miles of the team.<ref name=draft>{{cite news |title=Sports of The Times: Lost in a Draft |
Bradley dropped out of Oxford in April 1967, two months before graduation, to enter the [[United States Air Force Reserve|Air Force Reserves]]. (The following year, Oxford allowed Bradley to take "special exams", enabling him to graduate.) He served six months on active duty as an officer, though the requirement was four years' service. (On March 6, 1967, President Lyndon B. Johnson declared that he would issue an executive order that [[Selective Service System|Selective Service]] deferments for post-graduate study would henceforth be limited to the medical and dental fields.<ref>Bradley, Bill Life on the Run (Bantam Books, 1977) {{ISBN|0-553-11055-1}}</ref>)
Bradley joined the New York Knicks in December 1967, having missed the preseason and several weeks of the [[1967–68 NBA season|1967–1968 season]]. He was placed in the backcourt, although he had spent his high school and college careers as a [[forward (basketball)|forward]]. Neither he nor the team did well, and in the following season, he was returned to the forward slot.<ref>{{cite news |title=Sports of The Times: It Still Was a Good Year |
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]].<ref name=phillips/> 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.
Retiring from basketball in 1977, he was elected to the [[Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame]] in 1983, along with teammate [[Dave DeBusschere]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Bradley, DeBusschere Join Hall of Fame |
==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 [[United States Senate|Senate]] chamber when the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] was passed. [[Butch van Breda Kolff|Van Breda Kolff]] and many others who knew him predicted that Bradley would be [[Governor of Missouri]], or president, by 40.{{r|mcphee}}{{rp|42}} His Rhodes application stated "I can best serve mankind as a politician".{{r|gellman19991213}} Bradley spent his time at Oxford focusing on European political and economic history.<ref name=phillips/>
During his third year with the Knicks, Bradley told [[Robert Lipsyte]] that he regretted only focusing on school and basketball at Princeton
{{quote|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}}
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===U.S. Senate===
[[File:Desk XLIV.jpg|thumb|right|Drawer of Bradley's former Senate Chamber desk (Bradley's signature is visible in the upper left corner)]]
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 [[1978 United States Senate election in New Jersey]]. He felt his time had been well-spent in "paying his dues". The seat was held by [[Rockefeller Republican|liberal Republican]] and four-term incumbent [[Clifford P. Case]]. Case lost the Republican primary to anti-tax [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] [[Jeff Bell (politician)|Jeffrey Bell]], who, like Bradley, was 34 years old as the campaign season began.<ref name=phillips/> Bradley won the election with about 56% of the vote.<ref>{{cite news |title=Jersey Democrats Contend Bradley Will Mean 'Big Plus' for the State |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/11/09/archives/jersey-democrats-contend-bradley-will-mean-big-plus-for-the-state.html |work=The New York Times |date=November 9, 1978 |page=B8}}</ref> During the campaign, [[Yale]] football player [[John Spagnola]] was Bradley's bodyguard and driver.<ref name=phillips/>
In the Senate, Bradley acquired a reputation for being somewhat aloof and was thought of as a "policy wonk",<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.salon.com/news/feature/1999/10/02/bradley/index.html |title=Who's the Real Underdog? |date=October 2, 1999 |access-date=July 22, 2009 |work=[[Salon.com]] |author=York, Anthony}}</ref> 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.<ref name=fire>{{cite news |title=Does Bill Bradley Have Enough Fire in the Belly? |work=[[BusinessWeek]] |date=March 31, 1986 |author=Grover, Ronald |page=80}}</ref> [[Domestic policy]] initiatives that Bradley led or was associated with included reform of [[child support]] enforcement; legislation concerning [[lead (metal)|lead]]-related children's health problems; the [[Earned Income Tax Credit]]; [[Campaign finance reform in the United States|campaign finance reform]]; a re-apportioning of California water rights; and federal [[budget]] reform to reduce the [[Government budget deficit|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.<ref>Reisner, Mark. Cadillac Desert, New York Penguin 1987.</ref> He sponsored the [[Freedom Support Act]], an exchange program between the republics of the former Soviet Union and the United States.<ref>{{cite news|title=New faces from abroad: Exchange students bring different cultural perspectives to gorge |date=September 7, 2007 |access-date=July 23, 2009 |author=Cox, Ed |work=Dallas Chronicle |url=http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2007/09/news09-07-07-02.shtml |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110102095723/http://www.thedalleschronicle.com/news/2007/09/news09-07-07-02.shtml |archive-date=January 2, 2011 }}</ref>
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==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.<ref name="gellman19991213">{{Cite news |
Bradley married Ernestine (née 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Would-be first lady confronts the horrors of her past |work=[[The Ottawa Citizen]] |date=February 3, 2000 |author=Macintyre, Ben |page=A10}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=The girl from Germany, the professor from N.J. |work=[[USA Today]] |date=September 9, 1999 |author=Lawrence, Jill |page=8A}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Unconventional Ernestine on the road |author=Lawrence, Jill |work=[[USA Today]] |date=January 19, 2000 |access-date=July 23, 2009 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/e1036.htm}}</ref> Bradley and Schlant divorced in 2007. His partner since 2009 has been former [[LBJ Library]] director [[Betty Sue Flowers]].<ref name=buchholz20090531>{{cite news|last=Buchholz |first=Brad |title=Betty Sue Flowers leaving behind 45 years in Austin to follow her bliss |url=http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/05/31/0531flowers.html |access-date=February 17, 2011 |newspaper=Austin American-Statesman |date=May 31, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716133355/http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/05/31/0531flowers.html |archive-date=July 16, 2011 }}</ref>
==Career statistics==
{{NBA player statistics legend|champion=y|leader=y}}
===NBA===
Source<ref name=bbr/>
====Regular season====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
!Year
!Team
!GP
!GS
!MPG
!FG%
!FT%
!RPG
!APG
!SPG
!BPG
!PPG
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1967}}
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1967–68 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 45 || 11 || 19.4 || .416 || .731 || 2.5 || 3.0 || || || 8.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1968}}
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1968–69 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| '''82''' || 39 || 29.4 || .429 || .814 || '''4.3''' || 3.7 || || || 12.4
|-
| style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"|{{nbay|1969}}†
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1969–70 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 67 || 64 || 31.3 || .460 || .824 || 3.6 || 4.0 || || || 14.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1970}}
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1970–71 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 78 || 66 || 29.5 || .453 || .823 || 3.3 || 3.6 || || || 12.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1971}}
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1971–72 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 78 || 78 || 35.6 || '''.465''' || .849 || 3.2 || 4.0 || || || 15.1
|-
| style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"|{{nbay|1972}}†
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1972–73 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| style="background:#cfecec;" | '''82'''* || style="background:#cfecec;" | '''82'''* || '''36.6''' || .459 || .871 || 3.7 || '''4.5''' || || || '''16.1'''
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1973}}
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1973–74 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| style="background:#cfecec;" | '''82'''* || style="background:#cfecec;" | '''82'''* || 34.3 || .451 || .874 || 3.1 || 3.0 || .5 || '''.3''' || 14.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1974}}
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1974–75 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 79 || 79 || 35.3 || .436 || .873 || 3.2 || 3.1 || '''.9''' || .2 || 13.3
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1975}}
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1975–76 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| '''82''' || '''82''' || 33.0 || .433 || '''.878''' || 2.9 || 3.0 || .8 || .2 || 11.1
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|{{nbay|1976}}
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1976–77 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 67 || 5 || 15.3 || .464 || .810 || 1.5 || 1.9 || .4 || .1 || 4.3
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 742 || 588 || 30.7 || .448 || .840 || 3.2 || 3.4 || .7 || .2 || 12.4
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|All-Star
| 1 || 0 || 12.0 || .400 || – || 1.0 || .0 || || || 4.0
{{s-end}}
====Playoffs====
{| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%; text-align:right;"
!Year
!Team
!GP
!GS
!MPG
!FG%
!FT%
!RPG
!APG
!SPG
!BPG
!PPG
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1968 NBA Playoffs|1968]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1967–68 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 6 || 0 || 10.7 || .429 || .692 || 1.0 || .3 || || || 5.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1969 NBA Playoffs|1969]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1968–69 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 10 || 10 || '''41.9''' || .461 || .769 || '''7.3''' || '''4.0''' || || || 16.0
|-
| style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"|[[1970 NBA Playoffs|1970]]†
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1969–70 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| style="background:#cfecec;" | '''19'''* || style="background:#cfecec;" | '''19'''* || 32.4 || .429 || .814 || 3.8 || 3.2 || || || 12.4
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1971 NBA Playoffs|1971]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1970–71 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 12 || 12 || 30.7 || .424 || .737 || 3.4 || 3.6 || || || 10.5
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1972 NBA Playoffs|1972]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1971–72 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| style="background:#cfecec;" | 16* || style="background:#cfecec;" | 16* || 37.1 || '''.467''' || .839 || 2.9 || 3.4 || || || '''16.2'''
|-
| style="text-align:left; background:#afe6ba;"|[[1973 NBA Playoffs|1973]]†
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1972–73 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| style="background:#cfecec;" | 17* || style="background:#cfecec;" | 17* || 34.5 || .448 || .800 || 3.4 || 2.6 || || || 14.0
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1974 NBA Playoffs|1974]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1973–74 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 12 || 12 || 35.4 || .396 || .862 || 2.3 || 1.1 || .6 || '''.3''' || 12.6
|-
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1975 NBA Playoffs|1975]]
| style="text-align:left;"|[[1974–75 New York Knicks season|New York]]
| 3 || 3 || 29.3 || .375 || '''1.000''' || 3.0 || 2.0 || '''.7''' || .0 || 6.7
|- class="sortbottom"
| style="text-align:center;" colspan="2"|Career
| 95 || 89 || 33.3 || .438 || .805 || 3.5 || 2.8 || .6 || .2 || 12.9
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[[Category:FISU World University Games gold medalists for the United States]]
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