Jason Richardson

Knuckleheads with Quentin Richardson & Darius Miles

The Players' Tribune

Arts, Comedy, Sports

5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

We got one of the greatest dunkers ever on the pod this week, as Jason Richardson joins Q and D on Knuckleheads. J Rich looks back on growing up in Michigan, his iconic alley-oop in the Arthur Hill-Saginaw rivalry game, and why he ended up at Michigan State. He talks about winning dunk contests and names his top five greatest dunkers ever. J Rich is one of the wildest high flyers in NBA history — tune in!

1. Growing up in Saginaw, crazy high school rivalry (7:10)
2. Going to Michigan State, winning the NCAA title his freshman year (16:08)
3. First All-Star weekend and winning his first Dunk Contest (26:23)
4. We Believe Golden State Warriors (35:00)
5. Playing with Steve Nash in Phoenix (41:42)
6. How proud he is of Draymond Green (52:51)

About Our Hosts:

NBA veterans Quentin Richardson and Darius Miles are lifelong friends and bona fide truth-tellers. Listen as they invite special guests, high-profile athletes, musicians and entertainers to get brutally honest about everything from current events to untold stories from the golden era of sports and culture. Named for the on-court celebration they made wildly popular, this unfiltered, hilarious and surprising podcast is like playing NBA 2K with no fouls.

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0:00.0	First of all man appreciate you coming on that show man. We watched your career from start to finish
0:06.2	We appreciate you being on the show and rocking with us bro, I appreciate being here man
0:11.6	Definitely been following each other careers pretty much.
0:14.6	When you first got to the league who was the first person to bust your ass? Oh man
0:21.2	I'm honestly now y'all not gonna remember this though man we played y'all at the pyramid y'all
0:26.8	came down again the pyramid bro summer league we did we showed the joujoule saying you're here Oh summer lead. We did. We did.
0:33.2	Joe Joe.
0:34.2	You know what I'm saying you're at the badie.
0:35.8	Yeah, badie. Just said that.
0:37.0	Yeah, y'all showed up.
0:39.1	Y'all wasn't supposed to play. It's me, Gilbert, and Troy. Y'all showed up, y'all too. I think Corey played in it and Elo playing it.
0:48.0	I don't know how I all played in there.
0:50.0	Y'all was like...
0:51.0	And Keon, like all of the...
0:52.0	I remember that. I think the only person didn't play was
0:54.8	and y'all man y'all whooped our ass man we I said damn I had to go back to the
0:59.4	drawing board after that that's crazy you say that because Betty had just said that.
1:06.1	I got all them on tape on VCR tape.
1:08.2	That's what's crazy.
1:09.2	You go back and look at it.
1:10.2	Y'all put it to us, man.
1:11.9	Oh yeah, we lost by like 20.
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