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It's been awhile since I've written an NBA blog, so here goes...
Once considered a centerpiece of Pat Riley's rebuild, and prior to that was Dwyane Wade's understudy in Miami as a rookie, Josh Richardson has now played on five teams in the last four seasons - Including this one.
As the 40th overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft, Richardson was actually one of Riley's better value picks. And last August, Boston even signed him to a one-year contract extension in large part to increase his trade value. Richardson averaged 9.7 points per game for the Celtics on 39.7 percent shooting from three-point range before being traded to the Spurs last month for Derrick White.
The catch? San Antonio's roster in extremely guard-heavy. Talk about going from a sure thing (once being traded for Jimmy Butler) to who the hell knows...
Richardson is a modern day Jimmy Jackson, in that he's a guy everyone seems to want but also a player that every team he's been on was willing to sacrifice. As a player that defends well and can knock down the occasional threes, he seems like a Popovich guy. He could in theory play out the rest of his contract in San Antonio, but the 6'5" player who has spent virtually his entire NBA life at the shooting guard position will need to play forward almost exclusively to make it work beyond the last couple months of this season.
Frankly, he is a guy with just the right amount of veteran saavy that I can't help but to root for as the Spurs look to eventually eliminate the Lakers from play-in contention. We all ought to know by now how my fellow Hoosier Gregg Popovich feels about LAL.
The Curious NBA Career of Josh Richardson
Once considered a centerpiece of Pat Riley's rebuild, and prior to that was Dwyane Wade's understudy in Miami as a rookie, Josh Richardson has now played on five teams in the last four seasons - Including this one.
As the 40th overall pick in the 2015 NBA Draft, Richardson was actually one of Riley's better value picks. And last August, Boston even signed him to a one-year contract extension in large part to increase his trade value. Richardson averaged 9.7 points per game for the Celtics on 39.7 percent shooting from three-point range before being traded to the Spurs last month for Derrick White.
The catch? San Antonio's roster in extremely guard-heavy. Talk about going from a sure thing (once being traded for Jimmy Butler) to who the hell knows...
Richardson is a modern day Jimmy Jackson, in that he's a guy everyone seems to want but also a player that every team he's been on was willing to sacrifice. As a player that defends well and can knock down the occasional threes, he seems like a Popovich guy. He could in theory play out the rest of his contract in San Antonio, but the 6'5" player who has spent virtually his entire NBA life at the shooting guard position will need to play forward almost exclusively to make it work beyond the last couple months of this season.
Frankly, he is a guy with just the right amount of veteran saavy that I can't help but to root for as the Spurs look to eventually eliminate the Lakers from play-in contention. We all ought to know by now how my fellow Hoosier Gregg Popovich feels about LAL.
The Curious NBA Career of Josh Richardson
