A Sense of Where You Are

Bill Bradley at Princeton

Ranked #48 in Sense, Ranked #75 in Basketball

When John McPhee met Bill Bradley, both were at the beginning of their careers. A Sense of Where You Are, McPhee's first book, is about Bradley when he was the best basketball player Princeton had ever seen. McPhee delineates for the reader the training and techniques that made Bradley the extraordinary athlete he was, and this part of the book is a blueprint of superlative basketball. But athletic prowess alone would not explain Bradley's magnetism, which is in the quality of the man himself—his self-discipline, his rationality, and his sense of responsibility. Here is a portrait of... more

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Erik Torenberg @bencasnocha His book on Bradley is perhaps the best basketball related literature I’ve read, followed by Bradley’s own book. (Source)


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