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Bill Bradley: The Knicks Could Be Champions
Miles McBride, of the New York Knicks, during Tuesday night’s game against the Indiana Pacers. (Photo by Sarah Stier/Getty Images)
‘I still believe the unselfish team wins,’ the NBA legend tells The Free Press. ‘And these Knicks are unselfish.’
By Joe Nocera
05.16.24
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“I’m like a fan,” said Bill Bradley. “I’ve been waiting for this for a long time.” 

So, of course, has the rest of New York. It’s been 51 years since the New York Knicks last won a championship, with that iconic team anchored by Willis Reed and Walt Frazier, and that included, at small forward, future New Jersey senator Bill Bradley. Fifty-one years of i…

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Joe Nocera
Joe Nocera is an editor and writer at The Free Press. During his long career in journalism, he has been a columnist at The New York Times, Bloomberg, Esquire, and GQ, the editorial director of Fortune, and a writer at Newsweek, Texas Monthly and The Washington Monthly. He was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2007.
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