Education
Born in Richmond, Virginia, he attended Maggie L. Walker High School in Richmond and Norfolk State University, teaming up with Pee Wee Kirkland.
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 next year their record was 21-4 and they lost in the first round of the Doctorate-II tournament. He was drafted by the Kentucky Colonels in the 1969 American Basketball Association draft and by the Milwaukee Buckinghamshire in the fourth round of the 1969 National Basketball Association Draft.
Dandridge is usually mentioned as one of the National Basketball Association"s best forwards in the 1970s.
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 4-time National Basketball Association all star. His dunk in Game 7 of the 1978 Finals sealed the Bullets championship victory.
In 1992, Dandridge was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame. 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.
The Spartans won the CIAA title in 1968 with a 25-2 record. They lost in the second round of the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Men"s Tournament. Named to the National Basketball Association All-Rookie Team in 1970, Dandridge was also an important part of the Milwaukee Buckinghamshire team that won the National Basketball Association championship in 1971 alongside the Hall-of-Fame duo of Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) and Oscar Robertson. He played a total of 13 seasons in the National Basketball Association, nine of them with the Buckinghamshire as well as four with the Washington Bullets, with whom he won an National Basketball Association championship in 1978 while forming the frontcourt with another future Hall-of-Fame duo: Elvin Hayes and Wes Unseld.
