Hooped Up

Another van glorious season of NBA basketball is about to begin and Hooped Up does a quick and dirty preview of all 30 clubs.

Everybody wants to pay Dwyane Wade a ton of money to leave the Heat when he becomes a free agent in 2010. The Heat need to save a ton of money to keep him past 2010. Either way, look for Wade to have a spectacular season with a suspect supporting cast,followed by a ridiculous contract offer in the summer from team X. Read More »

Holy Toledo! Quentin Richardson got traded again for a fourth time this summer.

Minnesota Timberwolves president David Kahn has traded shooting guard Quentin Richardson to the Miami Heat for former Timberwolves center Mark Blount, according to a person with knowledge of the situation. The deal was more about creating roster and salary cap flexibility than getting Blount, who likely won’t be on the roster when Minnesota opens training camp in late September.

Richardson has officially been passed around the NBA like a beach ball at a Nickelback concert.

Via Pioneer Press

These days Willie Nelson has nothing on Quentin Richardson. So far this summer, Q’s has been on the road again via trade three times already and according to Minnesota GM David Kahn. That number could be bumped up to four by the end of the week.

Hopefully Richardson didn’t fully unpack yet.

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Minnesota Timberwolves forward Mark Madsen says he has been traded along with Sebastian Telfair and Craig Smith to the Los Angeles Clippers for Quentin Richardson.

Madsen says he spoke to his agent on Monday to confirm the deal, which was first reported by YahooSports.com.

Madsen spent six seasons in Minnesota. His playing time waned as his career progressed, but he remained a valued leader in the locker room.

Smith was a capable scorer off the bench for the Wolves, but the power forward had trouble getting consistent playing time behind Al Jefferson and Kevin Love.

Richardson averaged 10.2 points and 4.4 rebounds last season.

Press Release

The Grizzlies have a nonbinding agreement in place with the Los Angeles Clippers for a trade that would swap recently acquired guard Quentin Richardson for forward Zach Randolph, NBA sources confirmed late Wednesday night.

The deal cannot become official until next week due to rules under the league’s collective bargaining agreement. Also at play is the unpredictable nature of Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who nixed a draft-night trade the Grizzlies proposed in an attempt to acquire Randolph.

Commercial Appeal

And by free I mean trade.

“The Grizzlies aren’t just entertaining the idea of parting with the No. 2 overall pick in Thursday’s draft. They’ve also engaged in advanced discussions with the Knicks that should put former No. 2 overall pick Darko Milicic in New York by week’s end … unless Memphis winds up needing Milicic’s expiring contract in another draft-related trade.

Sources say that the proposed swap would send Milicic to the Knicks for swingman Quentin Richardson and cash. Milicic is scheduled to earn $7.5 million next season in the final year of a three-year deal he received from the Griz in 2007; Richardson has a player option for next season at $8.7 million.

If the teams go through with the trade, Milicic would join his fourth team since Detroit infamously gambled on him in 2003 with the pick immediately after LeBron James … and right before Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade.”

ESPN

Last night, Quentin Richardson’s stat line in the Knicks 116 – 111 victory over the Pistons was 7 points, 2 steal, 2 assist and $1000 donated to the Feed The Children relief organization.

“For the second year in a row, the Pistons conducted a charity telethon during a home game. After raising more than $412,000 for the Make-A-Wish Foundation in 2008, this year’s event raised more than $440,000 for Feed The Children, which will use the money to help Michigan family in need. Fans in the arena were urged to give at every break in the game’s action — and from his spot on the visiting team’s bench, Quentin Richardson got the message. Despite the fact that his team was in the middle of a game, Richardson had a team employee fetch a donation form so he could cut a check for a cool grand at halftime.”

Via NBA Fanhouse

It’s safe to say that Stephon Marbury is now on the same list as the Boston Celtics, OPEC, and building contractors who put pull handle doors on the Mens bathroom to exit for teammate Quentin Richardson.  Below is what Q had to say regarding Marbury, who again refused to enter a game yesterday for the second time this week as reported by Newsday.

“He hasn’t played with us all year, he doesn’t want to play with us. He’s expressed that a second time, so whatever,” Richardson said of Marbury, who also refused to play Friday when the Knicks were down to seven players after a pair of trades were made.

“I don’t look at him as a teammate because teammates don’t do that,” Richardson said.

“Regardless of what you have going on with the organization or what you have going on with your coach or whatever, you’re not going to allow your teammates to be left out there the way they were left out there … Regardless of how you’re trying to stick it to whoever. At the end of the day, we’re getting left out there and we’re shorthanded, people are hurt and people are still playing.”

People are leaving the Marbury Facebook fan group in droves as we speak.

After the Knicks received a 45 point trashing by the Celtics last year, possibly sparked by pre-game comments made by Quentin Richardson not much has changed. Fast forward almost a year later and Q still has a problem with the Celtics. At least this time they only lost by nine, Q saved his comments for after the game and Ed Barnes decided to keep his jersey…for now.

“I’ll just be real curious to see what a lot of those guys would say if we weren’t in a basketball arena, where there ain’t no referees and the NBA officials are going to stop certain things,” Richardson said. “I mean, it wouldn’t be the same story. They are the world champions and rah-rah-rah. But I mean the tough talk, I don’t buy.”

“I come from a neighborhood where you can say what you want to say — until you do something, it really don’t mean nothing. Some of those guys are woofing about, ‘Get a ring.’ You ain’t been in the league long enough to talk like that to some people who’s got as many years as we got over here. I don’t got a lot of respect for that.”

New York Times

I bet this was staged to rush a trade before the deadline. But seriously, your on the road, winning and your fighting with your team mates in the time out? The Knicks just need to accept that the team is Dysfunctional and retool for next year. This does not happen on a bench where players respected the coach. Something has got to change now if this train wreck is to be fixed. The least the Knicks could do is kick Isaiah upstairs, and let one of the assistants take over for a change of pace.