Posted Up! | Josh Richardson

three for Josh Richardson. Josh Richardson represents a lynchpin for the Sixers, a key component in the club's supersize starting lineup who can shoot and handle while also taking on the opposition's top guard. Despite battling some injuries, he enjoyed several strong stretches before the NBA went into suspension. Josh Richardson and a slam. Richardson sores and slams a two hand jam. On this edition of Posted Up, Josh Richardson.

Welcome to the first installment of Post It Up, a mini series here on the broadcast checking it on seventy Sixers players during the hiatus, with new episodes debuting multiple times a week. In mid April, Quarantine finds Josh Richardson

in Miami, where it's an enviable eighty five degrees. After a summer sign and trade sent the twenty six year old from the Heat to the Sixers, he still kept his South Florida home, and these days, when the ability for professional athletes to get outdoors and stay active is at a premium, that decision seems like it was a pretty darn good moves in the back yard. I got a lot of time back. I got a basketball goal

back there. I just shoot on to play horse, play games and go down to the dock, may fish a little bit, swam chill. Richardson doesn't consider himself a good fisher, but when he's in Miami, he enjoys casting his lines. When I'm down here, I do a little more just because I can fish off my dot back. But it's cool. Start out here, man. They know what's up, all they know to do. The past four years, Richardson was a

revelation for the Heat. He was selected tenth overall in the second round of the twenty fifteen draft out of Tennessee. Played a limited role in Miami his first season, but by the time he left, he was the focal point of the team's offense over the last four years in the NBA. I'd attribute my growth in my progression just to how I was kind of molded, you know, in college. But I didn't come into college like a five star,

was like a two stars out of high school. So you know, I had to work for everything at every level. So I mean, coming here with these guys, you see how you know, this whole this whole team, his whole rosters full of guys had you know, progressed a lot over their careers. Right off the bat, Richardson made an impact.

He started the season with the Sixers, scoring in double figures in his first five games, and notably went for twenty eight points in a homecoming appearance against the Oklahoma City Thunder Josh for three outside but that it's good. A dozen points for Josh Richardson in his hometown return

and the Sixers have tied the game. Then, about a month into the season, Richardson delivered what remains arguably his finest performance today Richardson for three He erupted for thirty two points at the center against none other than his old squad Josh Richardson, a season high, bedoubling his former team and his first meeting against him tonight. Richardson missed a few weeks around Thanksgiving with a hamstring injury. He came back and got into another group, having a hand

in important wins against Okase, Boston, and Brooklyn. As Richardson continued to make his way through his debut campaign with the Sixers, he relished the emergence of an exciting plot twist. Ben Simmons, once arrival when Richardson was with the Heat, was helping advance Richardson's game Josh three ball shot near bang. It's good Simmons with the dish and Josh Richardson for three.

He's not missed here and his return in Miami. It was like interesting and weird to like be the same locker room with everyone, But you know, once we got to working together, it's almost like it makes it easier on everybody else to play with him because he has a gravity once he gets like driving downhill or he gets a ball on the paint, he has a really high gravity that like just pools a lot of other defenders, So you just gotta make it work around him. Honestly,

another hamstring injury sideline Richardson in late January. He was then diagnosed with a concussion at the beginning of March, only to come back for the Sixers' final game before the season was paused. That brings us back to the present. What's Richardson up to. It's working out. He ordered waits and bikes to his house. He's also reading and playing video games. He says, his phone, xbox and get this, a nine by eight foot bed among the things he

couldn't live without. In quarantine, Richardson's doing some binging. Two of course, I washed locking key, I binged. I show him like two Days. I love that shown that season to come out. I watched so called A Hundred Humans. It's hilarious, it's interesting. I liked it. I watched a new Pokemon movie. Pokemon movie. Yeah, favorite character Gangar because he's dumb and he's kind of like terrifying at the same time. So like, nobody would really mess with me,

you know, nobody wants to smoke. On the food front, Richardson isn't doing a ton of cooking, but he has been on a juice kick. My biggest legs and my biggest maybe problem downfall. It's my juice collection. I drink juice all day. I keep it organized. I don't. I don't play around his favorite snack. I've been on a bit of a health kick. My favorite foody eat under quarantine is probably, I mean even a lot of seaweed chips. It's so it's like it's just so easy to eat

and they're cheap. Juices are refreshing, and seaweed snacks are tasty. But Richardson is missing the game and he's eager to get to work. You can only chop it up with the fellas so much on Zoomer FaceTime. I'm excited to tell Ko that he's trash. I'm excited to be Joe Ellen some shooting competitions like always. I'm excited to call him and teach rook and telling no one likes him. I'm excited to tell Tobias that he needs to edge up.

The hiatus has offered Richardson time to reflect. He was widely credited for stepping up in the locker room, as both he in the seventy six ers weathered ups and downs before the extended break. I learned that I can be a leader in like new situations. It was my first time I'm really playing for a new team like that. Quickly, So you know, I wasn't trying to like step on anybody's toe. I'm not trying to step out of line.

Just knowing that I can put myself in a position to be a leader, to be a voice for a new situation and a new group of people is probably a big thing, the biggest thing I learned at yes while we up here in the Northeast, right out the rain what are hopefully the final few cold fronts of spring, Josh Richardson sounds like he's got a pretty good setup a thousand miles or so south. But make no mistake, the seventy sixers and all of you out there are

top of mind. I miss you guys. I can't wait to get back, you know, into the Wells Fargo if it happens this season. And you know, I'm still thinking about you guys all the time. We just want to get back in there. Are ina just like y'all do. This has been posted up with Josh Richardson. Be sure to check out Lauren Rosen's article about Richardson. It's also part of our posted up Hiatus content series. I want to thank Lauren and Kristen Crosby for their help in

producing this episode. Next time we'll post up with Ben Simmons. I'll work out you gotta work out any breakfast obviously, make sure we get the video games in. Been a lot of time with the dogs. I'm Brian Seltzer. Thanks for listening. Stay safe, stay smart, and be healthy. See it before I get out of your hair. Just one more thing I wanted to bring up. Novocare Rehabilitation is offering physical therapy from the comfort and safety of your

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