In a new documentary called “Rolling Along,” former NBA player Bill Bradley charts his progress, from college hoops to pro courts to Congress to performing on stage.
You might have seen an affable, 6-foot-5-inch older fellow pacing the paths of Central Park recently, talking to himself. Well, that was no ordinary man. Among his accomplishments: a Rhodes scholarship, a flawless jump shot, even a seat in the Senate. And of late — surprisingly — a moment in the footlights.
One person who felt a connection was filmmaker Spike Lee, a Knicks fan of rabid dimension, who’s been friends with Bradley for years. Running into each other before the pandemic at Clyde Frazier’s Wine and Dine, the now-closed Manhattan restaurant of another ex-Knick, Walt Frazier, Bradley told Lee: “I’d like to do this thing for you to get your opinion.” Lee invited him to his Brooklyn office, where Bradley read to him “Rolling Along.
Bradley, who turns 80 in July, has always had intellectual leanings . He’s written six books and enjoys a wide circle of culturally enlightened friends, including Emanuel “Manny” Azenberg, longtime producer of Neil Simon’s plays on Broadway. So maybe it isn’t surprising that Bradley wanted to revisit acceptance on another stage. “I kind of like when the audience is with you. You know, when I ran for president,” he says, of his unsuccessful Democratic primary run in 2000, “there was the phenomenon of walking into a room of 90 people in Iowa or New Hampshire or wherever, and your job was to convince the 90 people that you’re the guy.
Tollin told Bradley afterward that “to me, this is a play that would work really well in regional theaters,” and after sending him “four pages of notes,” the director found himself in Bradley’s office at Allen & Co., the New York investment firm he joined in 2001. “Then covid killed it and we pivoted” to film, Tollin added.
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