Yardbarker: Quentin Richardson

The Great Weight Debate

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:07:44 -0500

This season, several players came into camp with their bodies reshaped. Chris Bosh and Rajon Rondo both got jacked over the summer - each adding 15-20 pounds of mass to their once skinny frames. Other guys like Caron Butler, Quentin Richardson and Tim Duncan all dropped weight to increase efficiency and reduce the risk of [...]

The Miami Heat Are Doing Well

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:44:36 -0500

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="480" caption="The NBA: Where Quentin Richardson's destructive powers happen"][/caption] In 2003, the Miami Heat asked their employees to take a 10-percent pay cut because of failing revenues. When they say "asked", I imagine they mean they posed their employees this question: 'would you like to earn 10-percent less ...

Trade Quentin Richardson for Baconnaise.

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 08:18:29 -0500

June 24, 2009. Quentin Richardson (QR) is a New York Knickerbocker. June 25, 2009. QR is a Memphis Grizzly. July 17, 2009. QR is a Los Angeles Clipper. July 20, 2009. QR is a Minnesotian Timberwolf. August 13, 2009. QR is a Miami Heat. 4 trades. 5 teams. 9 weeks. I mean, QR isn’t terrible. By no means great. But not [...]

Steve Aschburner: Richardson redefines 'journeyman'

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 12:13:05 -0500

Four teams, one offseason, zero minutes. Quentin Richardson had one heck of summer, but is it a sign of a bigger problem, asks SI's Steve Aschburner?

Give Q-Rich A Break: Traded Fourth Time This Off-Season

Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:10:15 -0500

You know, I just feel very sad for Quentin Richardson. Do you realize how many times this kid has been traded in this recent NBA off-season? Four times...in less than two months! Now, personally, Q-Rich deserves some respect.After spending his last four seasons with the New York Knicks before the 2009 off-season; he was to the Memphis Grizzlies, then the Los Angeles Clippers, onto to the Minnesota Timberwolves, and now here, stuck with the Miami Heat along with Dwayne Wade. Dwayne Wade might ...

Journeyman Quentin Richardson Traded to Fourth Team this Offseason

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 02:29:02 -0500

This has been quite the offseason for Quentin Richardson. First he started off with the Knicks and got traded for Darko — quite the insult — on draft night. The Grizzlies then turned around and moved him to the Clippers for Zach Randolph, trying to show their fans that they’re “spending” [...]

Heat acquire Richardson from T-Wolves for Blount

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:46:33 -0500

Quentin Richardson was traded for the fourth time since the end of last season, moving from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Miami Heat on Thursday night in exchange for center Mark Blount. Richardson, who can play both shooting guard and small forward, is a close friend and workout partner of Heat star Dwyane Wade, the reigning NBA scoring champion. Richardson averaged 10.2 points last season for New York Knicks.

Quentin Richardson could be traded for the fourth time this offseason

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:50:00 -0500

Reports out of Minnestoa indicate that Quentin Richardson — who was already traded from the Knicks to the Grizzlies, then to the Clippers and finally to the Timberwolves — could be traded once again by the end of this week. New GM David Kahn has been moving parts around like a game of Tetris during the offseason and will continue to reshape the Minnesota roster now that new head coach Kurt Rambis is on board. The T'Wolves have a lot of guards and the 29-year-old Richardson, who has cer...

Nobody Wants Quentin Richardson

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:37:09 -0500

While it’s hard for me to fathom nobody even offering the veteran’s minimum to Allen Iverson, I can understand why teams don’t want to sign the future first-ballot Hall of Famer this off-season. But if there’s one player in the League that it seems nobody wants, that player would have to be Quentin Richardson. It’s [...]

The Curious Offseason of Quentin Richardson

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:12:00 -0500

Just one month ago Quentin Richardson was likely sitting in his plush condo in Manhattan thinking about whether or not he was going to be a teammate of Lebron James in 2010. Since that moment, his life has been a whirlwind.

On June 25th, Quentin was shipped to Memphis for Darko Miličić. It pretty much looked like the Knicks were trying to get more European/White while dumping Quentin's lost jump shot and 9$ million dollar salary. At this point Quentin had to question where he fit in with the Grizzlies, who are a young team being built around O.J. Mayo and Rudy Gay, two studs he would likely back up.

That question of where he would fit it on the Grizzlies was answered as just a week later he was dealt to the Clippers straight up for Zach Randolph. At the time I thought maybe the Clippers would make sense given his history there and the fact that they did have a mixture of youth and experience.

And then earlier this week he gets dealt to the Timberwolves for the combination of Sebastian Telfair, Craig Smith, Mark Madsen and a bottle of Aquafina. To which I respond, what the hell do the Timberwolves want Quentin Richardson for? The T-Wolves are going full youth movement and just traded away Randy Foye along with Mike Miller who's a better version of Richardson. I see no reason why they would want him and I'd imagine they'll be looking to deal him shortly.

So where will Quentin wind up to start the season? Who knows but I don't think his summer of being traded is quite over yet.

Telfair dealt to the Clippers for Richardson

Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:24:20 -0500

It's been an odd summer for Quentin Richardson. He was initially dealt to the Memphis Grizzlies in exchange for Darko Milicic. Reunited with his fellow head-bopper, Darius Miles, I expected some depressing semblance of the old exciting duo that they once were. That was short-lived, however, as Richardson was traded again to the Los Angeles Clippers (the place where the head-bopping began) in exchange for Zach Randolph. Today brought trade number three of the summer for Q-Rich, as he was s...

Does Anyone Want Quentin Richardson?

Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:08:00 -0500

Well, of course not. But what do Darko Milicic, Zack Randolph, Sebastian Telfair, Mark Madsen and Craig Smith have in common? All were traded for Q Richardson at some point over the last month.

The Knicks dealt Q to the Grizzlies for Milicic on June 25th. Almost right after that deal, the Grizzlies dealt Q to the Clippers for Randolph (the trade wasn't finalized until last Friday). Now the Clippers are sending him to the Timberwolves for Telfair, Madsen and Smith.

Richardson is the classic "contract year player". After averaging around 10 ppg during his first three years with the Clippers, Q erupted for 17.1 ppg. He would use that momentum to sign a huge six year deal for $46M with the Phoenix Suns. Just one year into that deal, Phoenix shipped him out to New York for Kurt Thomas. And, well, ya know that nothing good has come out of the Knicks since then.

He's so popular now because of his contract. That big deal he signed in 2004 ends after the upcoming season. So that's another $9M in cap space a team could get from him. The Knicks dealt that opportunity away for another expiring contract. Milicic's salary will be off the books after the season, too, and he plays a need position for New York. No one knows what Memphis was thinking by dealing Q away for Zack Randolph's bad contract ($33M over the next two years) ... though it could pay off down the road.

This new deal (which isn't official yet) would mean Q goes to a Wolves team that could actually use him. None of the other teams needed him. Also, it gives the Clippers a few backup pieces with Madsen and Smith's contracts expiring this year and Telfair with a player option next year.

Stephon Marbury is an idiot

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:45:11 -0500

I realize that most of us already knew this, but Stephon Marbury confirmed on Monday that he is an utter moron. "When things got bad and then worse, guys like Quentin Richardson say, 'I don't consider him a teammate. He let his teammates out to dry.' He didn't care I was his teammate when I was banished. They left me out for dead. It's like we're in a foxhole and I'm facing the other way. If I got shot in the head, at least you want to get shot by the enem...

Public Enemy Numer One: Quentin Richardson

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:16:46 -0500

I hope Sterno and the rest of the keystone cops get a load of thi