Atlanta and Chicago swapped 1981 first-round positions on June 8, 1981, with the Hawks moving to No. 4 for Al Wood and adding the No. 38 second-round pick while the Bulls received No. 6 Orlando Woolridge plus Atlanta's 1982 second-rounder. The attached 1982 first-round swap option was not exercised. Wood played only 19 Hawks games before Atlanta packaged him with Charlie Criss for Freeman Williams, while Clyde Bradshaw never played an NBA regular-season game. Woolridge played 354 regular-season games for Chicago over five seasons and developed into a 20-point scorer. Ricky Frazier never reached the NBA. Chicago won the exchange decisively.
Atlanta received the No. 4 pick in 1981, the No. 38 pick and Chicago's option involving a 1982 first-round swap. Chicago received the No. 6 pick, Atlanta's 1982 second-rounder and the same contractual swap structure. The 1982 first-round option was never exercised, so this review assigns it no realized basketball value.
The Hawks selected Al Wood fourth overall, but his Atlanta tenure was extremely short. Wood played 19 games for the Hawks in 1981-82, all off the bench. He averaged 4.8 points and 2.3 rebounds in 12.5 minutes. On January 20, 1982, Atlanta traded Wood and Charlie Criss to San Diego for Freeman Williams. Because Criss was also included, this review does not credit the entire Williams return to Wood. Williams played 23 Atlanta games after the trade and averaged 4.8 points in 8.2 minutes. The shared downstream branch therefore added only limited realized value.
Atlanta used the No. 38 pick on Clyde Bradshaw. Basketball-Reference lists Bradshaw as a Hawks draft pick but records no NBA regular-season career. That makes the second-round component a zero-game outcome.
The Bulls selected Orlando Woolridge sixth overall. Woolridge played 75 games as a rookie, then 57 in 1982-83, 75 in 1983-84, 77 in 1984-85 and 70 in 1985-86. That is 354 regular-season games for Chicago over five seasons. His production rose steadily. Woolridge averaged 19.3 points in 1983-84, 22.9 in 1984-85 and 20.7 in 1985-86. That long starting-caliber tenure is the dominant realized asset in the trade.
The Bulls used Atlanta's 1982 second-round pick at No. 26 on Ricky Frazier. Frazier never appeared in an NBA regular-season game. The second-round asset therefore does not materially widen Chicago's edge beyond Woolridge.
Atlanta received only 19 Wood games, a no-game second-round pick and a diluted later return involving Freeman Williams. The unexercised 1982 swap added nothing. Chicago received 354 Woolridge games and multiple seasons of high-level scoring from the No. 6 pick. The Bulls' other second-round asset produced no NBA games, but they did not need it to win the deal.
Bulls Win, A/C-. Chicago receives an A for five Woolridge seasons and 354 regular-season games. Atlanta receives a C- because Wood lasted only 19 games, Bradshaw never played in the NBA and the later Wood trade required another outgoing player.