ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The Musial Awards are set to take place this weekend at the Stifel Theatre in St. Louis and it will feature plenty of honorees at the event.
Adam Wainwright will be no-doubt one of the most newsworthy honorees at the Awards Saturday on Nov. 18, but joining him will be tons of special people alongside him too, including Bill Bradley.
Bradley had a decorated career both as a basketball player and outside of it. The Crystal City Missouri native and Basketball Hall of Famer won two NBA championships with the New York Knicks in the 1970s, then after his professional basketball career entered the world of politics, becoming a U.S. Senator, representing New Jersey for 18 years.
Bradley will receive 2023 Stan Musial Lifetime Achievement Award Saturday, honoring how he used his influence, fame, and platform as a vehicle to achieve good for humanity, from attempts to return Native American land to the Sioux during his political career and serving in the Air Force Reserves before joining the Knicks just being the start of his good efforts.
Bradley joined Total Information A.M. Wednesday to discuss being 'moving' for him to receive an award named after someone he grew up watching and revering as a kid.
"My father would drive us from Grand Avenue up to old Sportsman Park and watch the Cardinals and Musial play," said Bradley. "Musial was the guy, he was always the clutch hitter that came through more times than not."
Despite having a widely decorated career in everywhere he went, Bradley says the lessons he learned as kid from playing basketball and watching Musial helped him tremendously.
"Courage, discipline, selflessness, imagination, responsibility and others, those values stay with you your whole life," said Bradley. "You might not have the ability to take you all the way to the pros, but they stay with you your whole life."
The Musial Awards are set to take place on Nov. 18 at the Stifel Theatre.