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Speaker 1: was a significant offseason acquisition. Josh Richardson going to the Sixers,
Speaker 1: A really good young guard and another player you know
Speaker 1: that gives them what's going to be a really great
Speaker 1: defensive team. A highly talented young two way talent entering
Speaker 1: the sweet spot of his career. Richardson hot hand, Yes
Speaker 1: three for Josh Richardson. Josh Richardson represents a lynchpin for
Speaker 1: the Sixers, a key component in the club's supersize starting
Speaker 1: lineup who can shoot and handle while also taking on
Speaker 1: the opposition's top guard. Despite battling some injuries, he enjoyed
Speaker 1: several strong stretches before the NBA went into suspension. Josh
Speaker 1: Richardson and a slam. Richardson sores and slams a two
Speaker 1: hand jam. On this edition of Posted Up, Josh Richardson.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the first installment of Post It Up, a
Speaker 1: mini series here on the broadcast checking it on seventy
Speaker 1: Sixers players during the hiatus, with new episodes debuting multiple
Speaker 1: times a week. In mid April, Quarantine finds Josh Richardson
Speaker 1: in Miami, where it's an enviable eighty five degrees. After
Speaker 1: a summer sign and trade sent the twenty six year
Speaker 1: old from the Heat to the Sixers, he still kept
Speaker 1: his South Florida home, and these days, when the ability
Speaker 1: for professional athletes to get outdoors and stay active is
Speaker 1: at a premium, that decision seems like it was a
Speaker 1: pretty darn good moves in the back yard. I got
Speaker 1: a lot of time back. I got a basketball goal
Speaker 1: back there. I just shoot on to play horse, play
Speaker 1: games and go down to the dock, may fish a
Speaker 1: little bit, swam chill. Richardson doesn't consider himself a good fisher,
Speaker 1: but when he's in Miami, he enjoys casting his lines.
Speaker 1: When I'm down here, I do a little more just
Speaker 1: because I can fish off my dot back. But it's cool.
Speaker 1: Start out here, man. They know what's up, all they
Speaker 1: know to do. The past four years, Richardson was a
Speaker 1: revelation for the Heat. He was selected tenth overall in
Speaker 1: the second round of the twenty fifteen draft out of Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Played a limited role in Miami his first season, but
Speaker 1: by the time he left, he was the focal point
Speaker 1: of the team's offense over the last four years in
Speaker 1: the NBA. I'd attribute my growth in my progression just
Speaker 1: to how I was kind of molded, you know, in college.
Speaker 1: But I didn't come into college like a five star,
Speaker 1: was like a two stars out of high school. So
Speaker 1: you know, I had to work for everything at every level.
Speaker 1: So I mean, coming here with these guys, you see
Speaker 1: how you know, this whole this whole team, his whole
Speaker 1: rosters full of guys had you know, progressed a lot
Speaker 1: over their careers. Right off the bat, Richardson made an impact.
Speaker 1: He started the season with the Sixers, scoring in double
Speaker 1: figures in his first five games, and notably went for
Speaker 1: twenty eight points in a homecoming appearance against the Oklahoma
Speaker 1: City Thunder Josh for three outside but that it's good.
Speaker 1: A dozen points for Josh Richardson in his hometown return
Speaker 1: and the Sixers have tied the game. Then, about a
Speaker 1: month into the season, Richardson delivered what remains arguably his
Speaker 1: finest performance today Richardson for three He erupted for thirty
Speaker 1: two points at the center against none other than his
Speaker 1: old squad Josh Richardson, a season high, bedoubling his former
Speaker 1: team and his first meeting against him tonight. Richardson missed
Speaker 1: a few weeks around Thanksgiving with a hamstring injury. He
Speaker 1: came back and got into another group, having a hand
Speaker 1: in important wins against Okase, Boston, and Brooklyn. As Richardson
Speaker 1: continued to make his way through his debut campaign with
Speaker 1: the Sixers, he relished the emergence of an exciting plot twist.
Speaker 1: Ben Simmons, once arrival when Richardson was with the Heat,
Speaker 1: was helping advance Richardson's game Josh three ball shot near bang.
Speaker 1: It's good Simmons with the dish and Josh Richardson for three.
Speaker 1: He's not missed here and his return in Miami. It
Speaker 1: was like interesting and weird to like be the same
Speaker 1: locker room with everyone, But you know, once we got
Speaker 1: to working together, it's almost like it makes it easier
Speaker 1: on everybody else to play with him because he has
Speaker 1: a gravity once he gets like driving downhill or he
Speaker 1: gets a ball on the paint, he has a really
Speaker 1: high gravity that like just pools a lot of other defenders,
Speaker 1: So you just gotta make it work around him. Honestly,
Speaker 1: another hamstring injury sideline Richardson in late January. He was
Speaker 1: then diagnosed with a concussion at the beginning of March,
Speaker 1: only to come back for the Sixers' final game before
Speaker 1: the season was paused. That brings us back to the present.
Speaker 1: What's Richardson up to. It's working out. He ordered waits
Speaker 1: and bikes to his house. He's also reading and playing
Speaker 1: video games. He says, his phone, xbox and get this,
Speaker 1: a nine by eight foot bed among the things he
Speaker 1: couldn't live without. In quarantine, Richardson's doing some binging. Two
Speaker 1: of course, I washed locking key, I binged. I show
Speaker 1: him like two Days. I love that shown that season
Speaker 1: to come out. I watched so called A Hundred Humans.
Speaker 1: It's hilarious, it's interesting. I liked it. I watched a
Speaker 1: new Pokemon movie. Pokemon movie. Yeah, favorite character Gangar because
Speaker 1: he's dumb and he's kind of like terrifying at the
Speaker 1: same time. So like, nobody would really mess with me,
Speaker 1: you know, nobody wants to smoke. On the food front,
Speaker 1: Richardson isn't doing a ton of cooking, but he has
Speaker 1: been on a juice kick. My biggest legs and my
Speaker 1: biggest maybe problem downfall. It's my juice collection. I drink
Speaker 1: juice all day. I keep it organized. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't play around his favorite snack. I've been on a
Speaker 1: bit of a health kick. My favorite foody eat under
Speaker 1: quarantine is probably, I mean even a lot of seaweed chips.
Speaker 1: It's so it's like it's just so easy to eat
Speaker 1: and they're cheap. Juices are refreshing, and seaweed snacks are tasty.
Speaker 1: But Richardson is missing the game and he's eager to
Speaker 1: get to work. You can only chop it up with
Speaker 1: the fellas so much on Zoomer FaceTime. I'm excited to
Speaker 1: tell Ko that he's trash. I'm excited to be Joe
Speaker 1: Ellen some shooting competitions like always. I'm excited to call
Speaker 1: him and teach rook and telling no one likes him.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to tell Tobias that he needs to edge up.
Speaker 1: The hiatus has offered Richardson time to reflect. He was
Speaker 1: widely credited for stepping up in the locker room, as
Speaker 1: both he in the seventy six ers weathered ups and
Speaker 1: downs before the extended break. I learned that I can
Speaker 1: be a leader in like new situations. It was my
Speaker 1: first time I'm really playing for a new team like that. Quickly,
Speaker 1: So you know, I wasn't trying to like step on
Speaker 1: anybody's toe. I'm not trying to step out of line.
Speaker 1: Just knowing that I can put myself in a position
Speaker 1: to be a leader, to be a voice for a
Speaker 1: new situation and a new group of people is probably
Speaker 1: a big thing, the biggest thing I learned at yes
Speaker 1: while we up here in the Northeast, right out the
Speaker 1: rain what are hopefully the final few cold fronts of spring,
Speaker 1: Josh Richardson sounds like he's got a pretty good setup
Speaker 1: a thousand miles or so south. But make no mistake,
Speaker 1: the seventy sixers and all of you out there are
Speaker 1: top of mind. I miss you guys. I can't wait
Speaker 1: to get back, you know, into the Wells Fargo if
Speaker 1: it happens this season. And you know, I'm still thinking
Speaker 1: about you guys all the time. We just want to
Speaker 1: get back in there. Are ina just like y'all do.
Speaker 1: This has been posted up with Josh Richardson. Be sure
Speaker 1: to check out Lauren Rosen's article about Richardson. It's also
Speaker 1: part of our posted up Hiatus content series. I want
Speaker 1: to thank Lauren and Kristen Crosby for their help in
Speaker 1: producing this episode. Next time we'll post up with Ben Simmons.
Speaker 1: I'll work out you gotta work out any breakfast obviously,
Speaker 1: make sure we get the video games in. Been a
Speaker 1: lot of time with the dogs. I'm Brian Seltzer. Thanks
Speaker 1: for listening. Stay safe, stay smart, and be healthy. See
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