Jason Richardson
Jason Richardson
Jason Anthoney Richardsonis an American retired professional basketball player who played 14 seasons in the National Basketball Association. Richardson was taken by the Golden State Warriors as the fifth overall pick in the 2001 NBA draft after playing college basketball for Michigan State University. He won the NBA Dunk Contest in both 2002 and 2003, becoming the second of four players, after Michael Jordan, to win the competition back-to-back. Other back-to-back winners include Nate Robinson, and Zach LaVine...
ProfessionBasketball Player
Date of Birth20 January 1981
CitySaginaw, MI
I'm not going to let anybody come and take my spot. He's going to come in and challenge me? Yeah, you challenge. But nobody's going to take my spot.
I have to do a better job of defending guys like that. I've got a challenge (tonight) with (Boston Celtics guard) Paul (Pierce). I've got to do a better job on both ends of the court.
I mean, he's been in the league nine years and he's never had it before where a point guard can pass the ball like that.
It's something I definitely need to get better at. Instead of taking my time, making the right decision, I've predetermined what I'm going to do in my head. Can't be like that.
It was huge. I get the shot off and it was a big game, probably the best in my career. To win a game like this was huge for this team. We really needed it.
I'm glad (Allen) wasn't in the lineup, that makes my job easier. It makes the team's job easier to go out there playing ball, so anytime you get a guy down like that, you've got to take advantage of it.
I'm only about 65-70 percent. I'll have to do other things besides scoring, because I hate sitting, but I haven't shown up the past four games.
I had to do something for the kids.
It was one of those games. Neither team played defense tonight.... It was one of those games where guys were scoring. If we would have made a couple of stops, we would have won the game.
It was a desperation win. We really needed this win and we went out there and played like that.
They want to sway away from the hip-hop generation, ... You think of hip-hop right now and think of things that happen like gangs having shootouts in front of radio stations.
We tried to get back into it and play some good defense. Troy hit a couple of shots. We tried to fight back into it but we dug ourselves into a hole by 20 (points) and it was hard to come back from that.
We were penetrating and kicking the ball out. We got our 3-pointers because of good ball rotation. We have a lot of guys who can shot.
We missed easy shots we're very capable of making. That was a lack of focus. We lost the game because we didn't execute toward the end. ... We're not satisfied with people talking about us. We want to make the playoffs.