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Bob Dandridge
Personal information
Born (1947-11-15) November 15, 1947 (age 77)
Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
High school Maggie Walker (Richmond, Virginia)
Listed height 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight 195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
College Norfolk State (1965–1969)
NBA Draft 1969 / Round: 4 / Pick: 45th overall
Selected by the Milwaukee Bucks
Pro career 1969–1981
Career history
1969–1977 Milwaukee Bucks
1977–1981 Washington Bullets
1981 Milwaukee Bucks
Career highlights and awards
  • 2× NBA champion (1971, 1978)
  • 4× NBA All-Star (1973, 1975, 1976, 1979)
  • All-NBA Second Team (1979)
  • NBA All-Defensive First Team (1979)
  • NBA All-Rookie First Team (1970)
  • No. 10 retired by Milwaukee Bucks
  • No. 12 retired by Norfolk State Spartans
Career statistics
Points 15,530 (18.5 ppg)
Rebounds 5,715 (6.8 rpg)
Assists 2,846 (3.4 apg)

Robert L. Dandridge Jr. (born November 15, 1947) is an American former professional basketball player. Nicknamed the "Greyhound", Dandridge was a four-time NBA All-Star and two-time NBA champion, who scored 15,530 points in his career. He was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021.

Early years

Born in Richmond, Virginia, he attended Maggie L. Walker High School in Richmond and Norfolk State University, teaming up with Pee Wee Kirkland. His teams had phenomenal years. The Spartans won the CIAA title in 1968 with a 25–2 record; they lost in the second round of the NCAA Division II Men's Tournament. The next year their record was 21–4 and they lost in the first round of the D-II tournament. He was drafted by the Kentucky Colonels in the 1969 American Basketball Association draft and by the Milwaukee Bucks in the fourth round of the 1969 NBA draft.

Basketball career

Dandridge was named to the NBA All-Rookie Team in 1970. In just his second season, Dandridge played an important part on the Milwaukee Bucks team that won the NBA championship in 1971, averaging 19.2 points, 9.6 rebounds, and 3.4 assists per playoff game, alongside the Hall-of-Fame duo of Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Oscar Robertson. In Game 3 of that finals series, Dandridge led all scorers with 29 points, while also recording 10 rebounds. On January 23, 1976, Dandridge scored a career high 40 points in a 113–97 win over the Kansas City Kings. He played a total of 13 seasons in the NBA, nine of them with the Bucks as well as four with the Washington Bullets, with whom he won an NBA championship in 1978 during his first season with the team, while forming the frontcourt with another future Hall-of-Fame duo: Elvin Hayes and Wes Unseld. In Game 2 of the 1978 NBA Finals, Dandridge led all scorers with 34 points en route to a Bullets win. His dunk in Game 7 of the 1978 Finals sealed the Bullets championship victory. Dandridge returned to the Bucks for 11 games in 1981, before retiring.

In his career, he averaged 18.5 points per game over 839 regular season games and 20 points per game in 98 playoff games and was a four-time NBA all star. Dandridge is usually mentioned as one of the NBA's best forwards in the 1970s.

Dandridge scored more points in the NBA Finals in the 1970s than any other player, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He scored a total of 450 points in four NBA Finals played, playing a total of 23 games, garnering an average of over 19 points a game, most notably scoring 109 points in the 1979 NBA Finals, which was the most on his Washington Bullets team.

In 1992, Dandridge was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.

In 2021 Dandridge was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Retirement

After retiring as a player, Dandridge served as an assistant coach at Hampton University from 1987 to 1992. Today, he lives in Norfolk, Virginia and conducts basketball clinics.

NBA career statistics

Legend
  GP Games played   GS  Games started  MPG  Minutes per game
 FG%  Field goal percentage  3P%  3-point field goal percentage  FT%  Free throw percentage
 RPG  Rebounds per game  APG  Assists per game  SPG  Steals per game
 BPG  Blocks per game  PPG  Points per game  Bold  Career high

Regular season

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1969–70 Milwaukee 81 – 30.4 .485 – .754 7.7 3.6 – – 13.2
1970–71† Milwaukee 79 – 36.2 .509 – .702 8.0 3.5 – – 18.4
1971–72 Milwaukee 80 – 37.0 .498 – .739 7.7 3.1 – – 18.4
1972–73 Milwaukee 73 – 39.1 .472 – .789 8.2 2.8 – – 20.2
1973–74 Milwaukee 71 – 35.5 .503 – .818 6.7 2.8 1.6 0.6 18.9
1974–75 Milwaukee 80 – 37.9 .473 – .805 6.9 3.0 1.5 0.6 19.9
1975–76 Milwaukee 73 – 37.5 .502 – .824 7.4 2.8 1.5 0.5 21.5
1976–77 Milwaukee 70 – 35.7 .467 – .771 6.3 3.8 1.4 0.4 20.8
1977–78† Washington 75 – 37.0 .471 – .788 5.9 3.8 1.3 0.6 19.3
1978–79 Washington 78 – 33.7 .499 – .825 5.7 4.7 0.9 0.7 20.4
1979–80 Washington 45 – 32.4 .451 .182 .809 5.5 4.0 0.6 0.8 17.4
1980–81 Washington 23 – 23.7 .426 .000 .718 3.6 2.6 0.7 0.4 10.0
1981–82 Milwaukee 11 0 15.8 .382 – .588 1.5 1.2 0.5 0.2 4.7
Career 839 – 35.2 .484 .167 .780 6.8 3.4 1.3 0.6 18.5
All-Star 4 1 18.5 .480 – .667 3.5 0.5 1.3 0.0 6.5

Playoffs

Year Team GP GS MPG FG% 3P% FT% RPG APG SPG BPG PPG
1970 Milwaukee 10 – 39.9 .507 – .655 8.7 5.7 – – 16.3
1971† Milwaukee 14 – 38.2 .463 – .782 9.6 3.4 – – 19.2
1972 Milwaukee 11 – 40.1 .495 – .740 8.8 1.9 – – 21.5
1973 Milwaukee 6 – 34.0 .421 – .704 4.7 1.2 – – 13.8
1974 Milwaukee 16 – 40.5 .493 – .766 7.6 2.8 1.4 0.6 19.3
1976 Milwaukee 3 – 40.7 .490 – .900 7.7 2.7 1.0 0.0 22.0
1978† Washington 19 – 39.3 .479 – .690 6.5 3.9 1.6 0.7 21.2
1979 Washington 19 – 41.4 .473 – .827 7.4 5.5 0.7 0.8 23.1
Career 98 – 39.6 .480 – .761 7.7 3.7 1.2 0.7 20.1


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