Another Ulysses (“Junior” Bridgeman) To Remember

Why ? it, as I can think of other billionaires more suited to leave the earth than a good one, former basketball player and a very good one, Ulysses “Junior” Bridgeman, who became another example of “all the money in the world …… , when he died suddenly, days back, too young at age 71.

He was one of my favorite players, though his teams, first Louisville in a famed national semi now almost exactly 50 years ago, and later some fine Milwaukee Bucks’ teams (as a mogul, Ulysses became part owner of, speaking of 50, has 2 titles, (1971 and 2021), failed in games/’offs series I really wanted them to win for rooting or anti-rooting and NOT financial reasons.

That aspect of win/lose in sports is far less important than $$, which sadly, is so important (think or forget being ripped off just to keep a car, an old, small one going) but again, “not another day will it buy?!!”

“Junior” deserves to defy the “heaven/needle” maxim and make heaven, as a self made man, who earned great sums and still seemed to avoid the so often “musky” pitfalls, great wealth and power so often generate!

Speaking of money (there it is again!) the above first edition of James Joyce’s seminal “Ulysses” is worth a great deal of it, which again is an “it,” however, not “THE IT!”

Ulysses “Junior” Bridgeman, pictured above. A rare, self-made billionaire, who deserves “above.”