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Orlando Woolridge
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Orlando Vernada Woolridge (born December 16, 1959 in Bernice, Louisiana) is a former professional basketball player in the NBA.
He was selected sixth in the 1981 NBA Draft by the Chicago Bulls and played with them for his first five seasons before going to the New Jersey Nets. After that, he played for the Los Angeles Lakers, the Denver Nuggets, the Detroit Pistons, the Milwaukee Bucks, and the Philadelphia 76ers. His best seasons came with Chicago, where he averaged over 20 points per game from 1983 through 1986. (Woolridge also averaged 25.1 points per game with the 1990-91 Nuggets, which played an unusual novelty hurry-up offense under head coach Paul Westhead that year; the team's pace factor in 1990-91 was 15 points over the league average.) He holds career averages of 16.0 points, 4.3 rebounds and 1.9 assists per game.
Notably, every team that Woolridge joined over the course of his career amassed a worse won-loss record in his first year with the team than it did in the previous year.
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