Mar 28, 20201 min
With the feat, he became the only player besides Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain and Willis Reed to record more than 35 rebounds in a playoff game. And he did it as a 6-foot-6 power forward.
(Bridges finished with 12 points and 36 rebounds that game; his teammate, Lou Hudson, finished with 35 points and 11 rebounds).
Some of Bridges’ career highlights:
In 1962, in the last season of the long-gone American Basketball League, he dropped 55 points, the league record.
Over 13 seasons in the NBA, he averaged a tad under 12 points and 12 rebounds per game.
During the 1967-68 season, he set the NBA record with 366 personal fouls in a season, or 4.5 personal fouls per game over 82 games.
He was a three-time All Star, a two-time All-Defense selection, and, in 1975, won a title with Rick Barry’s San Francisco Warriors.
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