Two-time NBA champion and former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley released a statement regarding President Donald Trump’s comments and tweets about the NBA and NFL.
"My entire life has been founded on the knowledge that sports is a model of what's best about America and about humanity: a model of discipline, aspiration, selflessness, and excellence,” Bradley said in a press release.
"Those who would denigrate those values, who would use our shared love of the game to divide us, show a fundamental misunderstanding of what makes us great as a country, and as human beings - not to mention a fundamental misunderstanding of what sports is actually about. So many of us have gotten up before dawn for early morning practices, we've driven hours to our kids' games, and we've gone hoarse cheering for our favorite teams, all because we love these games that push us to be better, and that connect us in a way unlike any other to our teammates, neighbors, and fellow Americans.”
Bradley then called on the sports world to reject the comments made by the president and come together at sporting events.
“I'm calling on everyone who has ever been a fan or a player, as a kid or as an adult, to affirm our shared values and to reject the President's comments in no uncertain terms,” Bradley said in the same press release. “It's time to show up, united and cheering together and for one another, at the arenas and stadiums where our common love of the game and for our country takes flight."
The former professional basketball player for the New York Knicks served three terms as a Democratic U.S. Senator from New Jersey.
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