Junior Bridgeman

infobox NBA Player


name = Junior Bridgeman
nickname =
position = Small forward/shooting guard
height_ft = 6 | height_in = 5
weight_lbs = 210
nationality = USA
birth_date = birth date and age|1953|9|17
birth_place = East Chicago, Indiana
death_date =
death_place =
college = Louisville
draft = 8th overall
draft_year = 1975
draft_team = Los Angeles Lakers
career_start = 1975
career_end = 1987
former_teams = Milwaukee Bucks (1975–1984; 1987) Los Angeles Clippers (1984–1986)
awards =

Ulysses Lee "Junior" Bridgeman (born September 17 1953, East Chicago, Indiana) is a retired American basketball player.

Bridgeman was a member of the 1971 East Chicago Washington High School Senators basketball team, which went undefeated (29-0) and won the Indiana state high school basketball championship. Among his teammates were Pete Trgovich (who played at UCLA) and Tim Stoddard (N.C. State), who would go on to have success as a Major League Baseball pitcher.

A 6'5" guard/forward from the University of Louisville, Bridgeman was drafted by the Los Angeles Lakers in 1975 and immediately traded with Brian Winters, Dave Meyers and Elmore Smith to the Milwaukee Bucks for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Bridgeman went on to have a solid 12-year NBA career, spent mostly with the Bucks, and he scored 11,517 total points. Although he was a sixth man for most of his career, he averaged double figures in scoring for nine consecutive seasons. He played in 711 games for the Bucks, still the most in franchise history, although he started only 105 times. His #2 jersey was retired by the Bucks franchise in 1988.

Bridgeman is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha, the first intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity established for African Americans. [http://hartfordalphas.com/alphaphialpha.php?ID=3]

External links

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