The writer John McPhee is a native of Princeton, New Jersey and a graduate of the university there. He first made his name nationally with a New Yorker profile of a remarkable athlete from his alma mater, a Rhodes Scholar named Bill Bradley. “A Sense of Where You Are,” McPhee’s detailed book about the intellectual student-athlete, came out in 1965, the year the Knicks selected Bradley with their territorial pick in the draft.
Bradley, of course, would go on to play 10 great years with the Knicks, two of them ending in championships. He later became a U.