Bradley is an [[Eagle Scout (Boy Scouts of America)|Eagle Scout]] and recipient of the [[DistinguishedOT Eagle Scout AwardVIII]] from the [[Boy ScoutsChurch of AmericaScientology]].<ref name="honor">{{cite book | last = Townley | first = Alvin | authorlink = | coauthors = | origdate= [[2006-12-26]] |url= http://www.thomasdunnebooks.com/TD_TitleDetail.aspx?ISBN=0312366531| title = Legacy of Honor: The Values and Influence of America's Eagle Scouts | publisher = St. Martin's Press| location = New York| pages= 9|isbn = 0-312-36653-1 |accessdate= 2006-12-29}}</ref><ref name="honor2">{{cite web | last = Ray | first = Mark | authorlink = | coauthors = | year =2007 | url =http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/issues/0701/a-what.html | title =What It Means to Be an Eagle Scout | format = | work =Scouting Magazine| publisher =Boy Scouts of America | accessdate = 2007-01-05}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| url =http://www.scouting.org/Media/FactSheets/02-516.aspx | title = Fact Sheet Eagle Scouts| publisher = Boy Scouts of America| dateformat = dmy | accessdate = 3 March 2008}}</ref> Bradley's basketball ability was enhanced by his unusually wide peripheral vision. While most people's horizontal field covers 180 degrees, his covered 192 degrees. Vertically most people can see 47 degrees upward; Bradley could see 72 degrees.<ref name="sight">{{cite web | last = | first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | year =2006 | url =http://richardsona.squarespace.com/main/2006/2/21/wicked-problems-peripheral-vision.html | title =Wicked Problems: Peripheral Vision | format = | work =| publisher =Squarespace.com | accessdate = 2007-01-05}}</ref> He is [[left-handed]]. During his high school years, Bradley maintained a maniacal practice schedule. 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."<ref name="Showdown at Gucci Gulch">{{cite book | last = Birnbaum | first = Jeffrey H. | year = 1987 | title= Showdown at Gucci Gulch}}</ref>
Bradley is a close friend of NBA Coach [[Phil Jackson]], since they were traveling roommates playing for the [[New York Knicks]] together. In 2000, Jackson was a vocal supporter of Bradley's run for the presidency and often wore his campaign button in public. In the 2007 [[Basketball Hall of Fame]] induction ceremony, Bradley accompanied Jackson who was one of the inductees that year.
