Jason Richardson signed an unguaranteed contract with the Hawks, but he’s not going to training camp.
The 34-year-old announced his retirement on Instagram:
Richardson spent 14 years in the NBA with the Warriors, Bobcats, Suns, Magic and 76ers. He was the go-to scorer on a few lousy teams in Golden State and Charlotte.
He never made an All-Star team or won a championship. His teams won just three playoff series.
It’s the type of résumé that would doom a good player like Richardson to being forgotten to history – if it weren’t for his dunk contests.
Richardson was a dunking savant.
He became the first player since Michael Jordan to win back-to-back dunk contests (a feat since matched by Nate Robinson). Richardson won the title as a rookie in 2002 and defended it the next year with this incredible off-the-bounce, between-the-legs reverse dunk:
Richardson fell to Fred Jones the following year, but not before going off the backboard for a between-the-legs dunk:
Vince Carter resurrected the dunk contest.
Richardson took it to the future.
As he got older, Richardson’s game drifted toward the perimeter. The Saginaw, Mich., native didn’t dunk nearly as much, but a steady diet of jumpers kept him in the league.
A knee injury sidelined Richardson in 2013, and foot injury kept him out longer. It seemed his career was over.
But Richardson returned two years later – an incredible accomplishment. It was arguably more meaningful than his dunk-contest success.
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One of the bets non-all-stars a few years back.
Great power in stylish dunks.
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I disagree with the idea that Richardson took the dunk contest into the future. The implication is that he built on what Vince did, which is wholeheartedly disagree with. Richardson was pretty exciting as a dunker, but Vince was on another level.
I disagree with the idea that Richardson took the dunk contest into the future. The implication is that he built on what Vince did, which is wholeheartedly disagree with. Richardson was pretty exciting as a dunker, but Vince was on another level.
It is just a matter of taste between those two, I think. In my opinion, those two are head and shoulders above everyone else. Richardson made some incredibly difficult dunks, not only look easy, but graceful.
I think the idea of him taking it into the future probably was a reference to all the stuff of the backboard, etc. One could argue, however, that his ability to do all of that so well led to a lot of poor imitation. It has gotten to the point that it is more about theater, now. I don't care much about it anymore.
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