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<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Caught up with Quentin Richardson yesterday at the Knicks summer kids basketball camp at Pace where he was guest speaker. We saw him in Vegas two weeks ago where he reported his new back left him pain-free and was dunking again. It was the most encouraging development of the Vegas week, even dwarfing the 5-0 record by the Knicks' promising youngsters in summer-league action.
But during the Vegas interview, we forgot to ask him about Ron Artest. Richardson is a proud man and expects to be the Knicks starting small forward opening night.
He was a key member of the Suns team that advanced to the Western Finals when he was mostly healthy. Richardson has a lot of class and claimed he has no problems about Thomas making inquiries into Artest, as volatile as Richardson is steady. Plus, Q won't be suspended for the first seven games like Artest.
"I have no issues,'' Richardson told me. "Whatever Coach Thomas does is for the betterment of the team. That's not my place to say (if we need him). That's why we have management. They'll do everything they think that needs to get done.''
Richardson went out of his way to defend his buddy and Chicago neighbor Eddy Curry for not showing up to the voluntary Las Vegas big-man mini-camp in which Richardson worked out all week, coinciding with summer-league action.
Q is ready to start playing in those legendary Chicago pickup games next week and will go against Curry. The Chicago guys will be playing in a new gym on Chicago's West Side that famed Michael Jordan trainer, Tim Grover, has just opened.
"Eddy, to me, I take my hat off to Eddy,'' Richardson said. "Any of his prevous years, he was never in the gym as early as this year. He was in the gym in early June and nobody had to tell him, nobody had to go find him and drag him there. He was their on his own. He called me one day and asked me what I was doing. He told me he was leaving for the gym and I was shocked. I had no problem with him not showing. He had had something he set up before he knew everyone was going there.''</div>
Source: NY Post
But during the Vegas interview, we forgot to ask him about Ron Artest. Richardson is a proud man and expects to be the Knicks starting small forward opening night.
He was a key member of the Suns team that advanced to the Western Finals when he was mostly healthy. Richardson has a lot of class and claimed he has no problems about Thomas making inquiries into Artest, as volatile as Richardson is steady. Plus, Q won't be suspended for the first seven games like Artest.
"I have no issues,'' Richardson told me. "Whatever Coach Thomas does is for the betterment of the team. That's not my place to say (if we need him). That's why we have management. They'll do everything they think that needs to get done.''
Richardson went out of his way to defend his buddy and Chicago neighbor Eddy Curry for not showing up to the voluntary Las Vegas big-man mini-camp in which Richardson worked out all week, coinciding with summer-league action.
Q is ready to start playing in those legendary Chicago pickup games next week and will go against Curry. The Chicago guys will be playing in a new gym on Chicago's West Side that famed Michael Jordan trainer, Tim Grover, has just opened.
"Eddy, to me, I take my hat off to Eddy,'' Richardson said. "Any of his prevous years, he was never in the gym as early as this year. He was in the gym in early June and nobody had to tell him, nobody had to go find him and drag him there. He was their on his own. He called me one day and asked me what I was doing. He told me he was leaving for the gym and I was shocked. I had no problem with him not showing. He had had something he set up before he knew everyone was going there.''</div>
Source: NY Post
