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
Of course the playoffs are still on our mind. We're in a position for the last playoff spot with a few other teams, but we can't worry about them. We just have to continue to go out and win games.
I think it's a sense of urgency. When we have our backs to the wall and we need to win a game, I think we really focus in. We've got to find a way to have that sense of urgency, whether it's a seven-game winning streak or a seven-game losing streak, every time we step on the floor if we want to make the playoffs this year.
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 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'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.