Jason Richards

Jason Richards - Into his third season as a graduate student manager at Pittsburgh.

Jason Richards - After further knee setbacks, Richards was forced to retire from professional basketball. He has worked this season with the Pittsburgh men's team as an assistant video co-ordinator and graduate assistant.

- Jason Richards

Davidson guard Richards's first professional season was a washout. He joined the Miami Heat for training camp, but blew his knee out in practice and missed the entire year. In doing so, his contract became guaranteed. While there are no rules against a team releasing an injured players, players with unguaranteed contracts are paid by the team until they are healthy; because Richards missed the whole year, the Heat had to pay his whole year's salary. This is the risk teams take when they sign players for training camp, and Richards's unwanted presence of $442,114 on their cap figure actually put the Heat into tax territory, which is why they had to salary dump Shaun Livingston. Tough break.

This year, Richards started in Poland on a tryout with Turow, but failed to make the team. He was then acquired by the Utah Flash in November, but did not play a great deal. Richards averaged only 2.9 points and 2.3 assists in 17 minutes of 18 games in two months with the team, scoring in double figures only once. He was then released by the team due to injury in late January and has not played since. It's not uncommon for torn ACL's to take the best part of two years to heal, and Richards looks to still be suffering from his 18 months on.