Mitch Richmond: His HALL OF FAME career was WASTED on the lowly Sacramento Kings of the 1990s | FPP

He took the JuCo route to get to NCAA Division I basketball, where he would be a two year star for the Kansas State Wildcats, leading them to the the Elite Eight as a senior. He would move on to the NBA where he would excel from the jump, winning rookie of the year on a Golden State Warriors team led by Chris Mullin and coached by Don Nelson. The next year Tim Hardaway would be drafted and RUN TMC was born. The trio would produce some of the most exciting basketball for the next two season, but right after a huge playoff upset of the San Antonio Spurs, Richmond was traded just days before the 1992 season, to the cellar dweller Sacramento Kings. The next 7 years of his career would be filled with amazing basketball that doesn’t seem to get talked about anymore because the Kings were small market and never had a winning season in Richmond’s time there. But that wasn’t his fault as he was a perennial all star and all-NBA player along with being a top 10 scorer in the league year in and year out. He was universally regarded as the second best shooting guard in the league behind Michael Jordan and finished with the second most points by a shooting guard in the 90s. He didn’t really have any team success with the Kings, but in his lone playoff appearance with Sacramento in 1996, he willed the team to a win over the Gary Payton and Shawn Kemp led Supersonics, marking the first playoff game win since the Kings had relocated to Sacramento. He eventually wanted out of Sacramento, but they didn’t do him any favours by trading him to a below average Wizards where he spent 3 years before finishing off his career with the ’02 Lakers, winning a ring in his final season.

But when it was all said and done, Mitch Richmond was one of the greatest players to grace the court and one of the nicest offense repertoire’s in the game. He gave maximum effort and never complained once, but his career is often forgotten about due to the situations he was in for the majority of his time in the league. So today, we’re going to go back and jog your memory on Mitch “rock” Richmond.

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