Very surprising and freaky. My wife and I actually met him and spent a couple hours shooting the s*** with him over pool a few years back - he was in town interviewing for the Comets HC position. Very friendly, very open about his experiences on and off the court. If you were going to be a journeyman in the NBA, it would be difficult to have a more star-crossed career than he had.
Didnt he average over 20 pts a game that year? He was always a pretty good scorer, just didnt do much else.
I remember Woolridge mostly from his playing days at Notre Dame where he was second fiddle to a guy named Kelly Tripuka.
RIP Orlando. Followed his college career at ND, best ND team ever. Teammates with Laimbeer, Tripucka and Bill Hanzlik.
Magic beat them soundly the year after the Final Four birth, when Orlando, Tripuka, Hanzlik, Jackson and the other fab 5 freshmen were sophmores. The Final Four one when they were freshmen and also had Laimbeer, Adrian Dantley should have been a Senior...he went pro as a Junior. Imagine: Dantley as a all-american senior Laimbeer Tripucka Woolridge Hanzlik
I remember him being on one of the Paul Westhead high scoring Denver teams back in the late 80s/early 90s. IIRC, Woolridge, Michael Adams, Walter Davis, Chris Jackson and Reggie Williams (?) all averaged like 120 pts/G between them.
I remember him playing overseas after his nba career was over. The rockets had won the nba championship the previous season. At the time the previous seasons nba champs would go play overseas against various euroleague teams just prior to nba training camps beginning. I dont remember who woolridge was playing for but i do remember him going off(he scored 30+ iirc) and his team almost beating the rockets team.
Yeah, he played in the highest scoring regulation-time game of all time (no OTs)? http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199011020DEN.html
Owner of one of the better dunks I've seen. Creativity, hangtime, and actually useful in a game (i've done the around the back and between the leg thing during actual game to get around 2 defenders, but with the chinaman layup finish, not dunk ) <iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/E7ijzLPcx1I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Probably so. That Utah/Denver game that was higher was 2 or 3 OTs. That Denver team was fun to play (if you don't like D).
Check out the Rocket's dropping 156 on that Denver team: http://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/199101100DEN.html The Blade w/ 23, which had to be close to his career high.
It was Pistons vs Denver in 1983. The score was 186-184 in triple OT. http://www.nba.com/pistons/news/highest_score_071211.html
