Bob Dandridge was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2021.
13 Facts About Bob Dandridge
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Bob Dandridge 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.
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Bob Dandridge was named to the NBA All-Rookie Team in 1970.
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In just his second season, Bob 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 and Oscar Robertson.
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In Game 3 of that finals series, Bob Dandridge led all scorers with 29 points, while recording 10 rebounds.
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Bob Dandridge 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.
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In Game 2 of the 1978 NBA Finals, Bob Dandridge led all scorers with 34 points en route to a Bullets win.
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Bob Dandridge returned to the Bucks for 11 games in 1981, before retiring.
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Bob Dandridge is usually mentioned as one of the NBA's best forwards in the 1970s.
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Bob Dandridge scored more points in the NBA Finals in the 1970s than any other player, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
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Bob Dandridge 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.
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In 1992, Bob Dandridge was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame.
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In 2021 Bob Dandridge was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.