Bob Dandridge

Bob Dandridge

Personal information
Born	(1947-11-15) November 15, 1947 Richmond, Virginia, U.S.
Listed height	6 ft 6 in (1.98 m)
Listed weight	195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
High school	Maggie Walker (Richmond, Virginia)
College	Norfolk State (1965–1969)
NBA draft	1969: 4th round, 45th overall pick
Selected by the Milwaukee Bucks
Playing career	1969–1981
Position	Small forward / shooting guard
Number	10
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)
Stats at NBA.com
Stats at Basketball Reference
Basketball Hall of Fame as player

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
†	Won an NBA championship

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

External links

• Career statistics from NBA.com  and Basketball Reference