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Jason Richardson, Old Man, May be Back Soon
By Jim Adair
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Actually, Jason Richardson is allegedly only 34, but I’ll be damned if he’s not close to 60: Richardson, who was drafted 5th overall when Nerlens Noel and Joel Embiid were only 7-years-old, has been sidelined with injuries since January 2013. First, it was a kneecap injury (such an old man thing), and then he injured his foot while rehabbing his knee.
Now Richardson — in his 14th season — is trying to make it back on the court. And he’s close. According to Brett Brown, J-Rich could see playing time “sooner rather than later,” which likely means right after the All-Star break. A career 17 point-per-game player, Richardson was averaging 10.5 points on a very different Sixers team when he went down. He’s 16th all-time with 1577 three-pointers-made, and his game when he returns would most likely consist of throwing up threes and trying not to break his kneecap again. Either way, he’ll help.
When he's not writing about sports here or ranting about them on Twitter, Jim is probably watching X-Files on Netflix or drinking a beer somewhere. Jim has nothing against hockey, it's just not his style. He once met Duce Staley at a Sixers game.