EHS Basketball Great Pat Bradley “E” Club Guest Speaker at Annual Banquet

Special to The Advocate

The “E” Club of Everett is thrilled to announce that the featured speaker for our Annual Scholarship and Awards Dinner, taking place on May 20th (6:30) at Spinelli’s, located on Rt. 1 in Lynnfield, is one of Everett High School’s All-Time greats, Pat Bradley.

The achievements of Pat, a 1995 EHS graduate, are simply amazing. In his four years playing Everett High varsity basketball, Pat was named to both the Boston Globe and Boston Herald All Scholastic teams, led Crimson Tide teams to the Eastern Mass. final (’94) and Eastern Mass. North final (’95), and finished his career scoring 1,461 points, despite losing the first half of his senior year to injury. Upon his graduation in 1995, his 1,461 points had him ranked as the All-Time points leader in EHS boys’ basketball history.

While playing in an AAU game in North Carolina, the summer between his junior and senior year at EHS, Pat caught the eye of legendary University of Arkansas basketball coach Nolan Richardson, who’s 1994 Razorbacks team had just been crowned NCAA Men’s Basketball champions. Impressed with Pat’s play, he promptly contacted Pat and offered him a full scholarship to become a Razorback for the ‘95-96 season. This was a big leap in recruiting interest, since at the time Pat had received offers from lesser Division 1 programs in the northeast, and had some skeptics wondering if going to a program of Arkansas’ stature, was too big of a leap.

Pat would prove his skeptics wrong, as he had a phenomenal four-year career at Arkansas. Upon his graduation, among other things, he had achieved:  4-year starter, led the team in scoring 3 years, twice named to the All-SEC team, set Arkansas and SEC records for career 3-point FG’s (366) and Consecutive games (60) with a 3-point FG, 5th All Time scorer (1765pts), all while leading the Razorbacks to 3 NCAA Tournament appearances (including one Sweet 16). Also, post-graduation, Pat was etched into Razorback immortality, being inducted into both the University of Arkansas (2014) as well as the State of Arkansas Sports Halls of Fames (2015). Not bad, for a kid who some thought couldn’t make the leap to play at Arkansas.

After playing professionally overseas in both Denmark and France, and then in the NBA Development league, Pat set his sights on a career in sports broadcasting, where, again, he has thrived. For many years he co-hosted several highly rated radio shows in the Little Rock, Arkansas area and since moved to the national stage where he can be found frequently on the SEC Network, as well as ESPN, both TV and Radio.