[Kwame33Participant]

That’s right everyone, your long-held suspicions have been confirmed, and we can put this age-old query to rest: Every player with the last name "Richardson" to ever play in the NBA, played Shooting Guard for significant stretches of their career. 

Lets break it down (all information courtesy of basketball reference).

Clint Richardson

Second round pick, played from 1979 to 1987, averaged 7/2.5/2.4, played Shooting Guard for nearly his whole career.

Jason Richardson

5th overall pick in the 2001 NBA draft, played until 2015, missing the 13-14 season with a knee injury. Averaged 17.1/2.7/5 across his whole career, and played SG as his main position for all but one season.

Jeremy Richardson

Undrafted out of Delta State University, played for 6 teams in 3 years, from 2006 to 2009. Averaged 1.9/0.1/0.6, and split his time pretty evenly between SG and SF, depending upon the team he played for.

Josh Richardson

40th pick of the 2015 draft, and first active player on the list. In his first 3 years in the NBA, he has averaged 12.9/2.9/3.4, and while he has certainly favored SF more as his career has advanced, he still played his rookie year largely at SG, and still goes back to the position with regularity this season.

Malachi Richardson

22nd pick of the 2016 NBA draft, Malachi Richardson has averaged 3.5/0.5/1.2 in his first two years as an NBA player, and has played SG for the majority of his time in the league.

Micheal Ray Richardson

4th pick of the 1974 NBA draft, Michael was a 4-time all-star, two time 1st team all-defense selection, and was the 1984-85 comeback player of the year. He averaged 14.8/7/5.5 with 2.6 steals across his successful, but fairly short career due to a apparent drug habit. He was admittedly more of a point guard, but still played considerable minutes at SG, especially in the 1979-80 and 1980-81 seasons.

Norm Richardson

An undrafted player, Norm played only 1 season, 2001-02, and played in only 11 games. In his time in the NBA, he averaged 2.7/0.2/0.5, (16.1 points per 36 though, lowkey underrated???) and played SG for a majority of it.

Pooh Richardson

10th pick of the 1989 NBA draft, and first ever pick of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Pooh averaged 11.1/6.5/2.8 and was elected to the 1989-90 1st team all-rookie squad. Basketball ref only lists him as a PG, but an article on AXS.com titled "The five best Minnesota Timberwolves shooting guards of all-time" lists Pooh as #2, and stated that he was "playing both guard positions and doing it well for the three seasons he was in Minnesota." I rest my case.

Quentin Richardson

The 18th pick of the 2000 NBA draft, Quentin had something of an up and down 13 season career, which concluded after the 2012-13 NBA season. During it, he averaged 10.3/1.5/4.7, and seemed to favor SG at the beginning of his career, before transitioning to SF, for the most part, in the latter half of his career.

 

[Dazzling Dunks and Basketball BloopersParticipant]

 Pooh was definitely a pg first and foremost. I guess you could argue that he occasionally played some sg at some points in his career but that definitely wasn’t his primary position.

[whiteflashParticipant]

 Both Pooh and Michael Ray were pg’s. MRR played some 2, but remember Pooh as strictly a 1.

[Kwame33Participant]

 Ok so yea I looked at Pooh’s highlights and he was definitely  purely a point but I was so disappointed that he was the only one that didn’t cleanly fit in that I literally looked for anything, no matter how unreliable, that said he had been subbed in at 2 for even a second lol.

[Kwame33Participant]

 Yea I had to bend the rules a little bit on that one. I never saw him play myself but there was enough evidence on the net to say he had at least spent time at the 2 so I went with it.

[whiteflashParticipant]

 Haha, all good. Looked it up to double check, and didn’t remember him on the Wolves at all, only remembered him from those awful mid 90’s Clippers teams.

[Andrew1984Participant]

 This is the kind of content that has made nbadraft.net one of the premiere destinations for all hoops junkies lurking on the interwebs

[BogDon_KryptParticipant]

Fun fact – every player with Bogdan in their name could either flat out or straight up Bodgan:

Bogdan Bogdanovic

Drafted 27th by the Sun in the 2014 NBA draft, Bogdan is considered by historians to be the steal of his draft.  Bogdan is averaging an astonishing 11.6 PPG, 2.8 RB, and 3.3 Assists, a stat only 173 NBA players currently possess this year.  He’s led the Kings to 24 wins an impressive 12 seed in stacked West.  This guy can straight up bogdan.

Bojan Bodganovic

Drafted 31st by the Miami Heat in 2011 to suceed Lebron James, Bojan Bogdanovic can flat out bogdan. Bojan is leading the Pacers to an unexpected playoff spot (potentially home court if Fultz keeps playing), with 14.1 PPG, 3,4 RPB, and 1.6 APG.  

Boban Marjanovic 

Very close to being able to Bogdan

Malcolm Brogdan

This dude can flat out Brogdan and is putting up even more impressive stats than former Bucks great Michael Carter-Williams.

Pooh Richardson

10th pick of the 1989 NBA draft, and first ever pick of the Minnesota Timberwolves, Pooh averaged 11.1/6.5/2.8 and was elected to the 1989-90 1st team all-rookie squad.  Pooh could flat out Bogdan.  

 

[BallerScriptParticipant]

 And thus the "Bogdan Hall of Bogdans" was created

[Memphis MadnessParticipant]

 Williamson: stubby, peaked-before-the-NBA tweener power forwards aka Corliss and Zion.  Are these two guys related?

 

 

[Memphis MadnessParticipant]

 Players with the last name Jackson have only gone to one All Star Game COMBINED.  That’s 1 ASG for THIRTY Jacksons!

The winner: Mark (not Marc) Jackson.

I think Mark Jackson is the only ROY, too.

 

 

 

 

[Scrooge McDuckParticipant]

 The only two players named Harper I can think of were point guards. Derek and Ron.

[OhCanada-Participant]

 The Toronto Raptors are the only NBA team that has never rostered a player with the last name Green.

[BogDon_KryptParticipant]

 Come to think of it they may be the only team to not have registered a player with the first, middle, or last name of Bogdon although I’ll caveat this by saying I don’t know what Pascal Siakam’s middle name is.  

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