Jason Richardson suspended 1 game, apologizes

by Seth Pollack on Feb 16, 2009 5:23 PM MST

Jason Richardson, fresh off his arrest for going 90 in a 35 with his three-year-old son wandering around the car unsecured was suspended by the Phoenix Suns for one game.

Jason had this to say after practice:

JRich apologizes #2

If this sounds at all familiar to you, it might be because he apologized in a similar way just 6 weeks ago after his DUI:

JRich apologizes #1

The quick action by the Suns to suspend Richardson is good to see. I am not sure one game is enough though and I think we all know that if this was still Jerry Colangelo's team that the trade rumors would have shifted today from Amare to JRich.

I was fairly nonplussed by the first incident. As a father of young children, I simply find this unacceptable. Call me a hypocrite for reacting more strongly to this than to a DUI, but it is what it is.

We certainly need to revisit the Shuttle-a-Sun program proposed on this site last month.

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can we get him a governor on his car? something, anything to slow this man down?

endangering the life of a child is simply unacceptable. one could of course argue that driving intoxicated also endangers the life of multiple people. either way, both incidents shed light on to some serious issues with Richardson as a person.

Never mind that this is also a man who was convicted of pushing a woman so hard that her head left a hole in the wall and was convicted of assault.

I don’t think I can cheer for him anymore.

by ArizonaCactus on Feb 16, 2009 5:35 PM MST reply actions

It's not that the DUI is okay

It’s that it is his second act of endangering others within two months. He’s learned nothing

Here’s my dilemna (or, more appropriately, my plight):

I got an orange Richardson jersey for Christmas — before the DUI came out and before he left Mason open.

I’ve yet to wear the jersey to a game. Would it be wrong to do so now? Maybe I’ll wear the free Amare/RoomStore jersey I got last year to show support for the no-trade fan contingent.

Mmmmm ... Guinness

by JSun on Feb 16, 2009 5:53 PM MST reply actions

Why don't you

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by Seth Pollack on Feb 16, 2009 5:54 PM MST reply actions

Meh

I mean its bad but I don’t really expect better behavior from bball players than I do from normal people

by IrrationalAgent on Feb 16, 2009 6:31 PM MST reply actions

From reading the articles about the incident, I think the kid was in a seat belt, he just wasn’t in a children’s car-seat, as required by Arizona law for a kid his age. This doesn’t really change anything, but still.

by jburning on Feb 16, 2009 6:47 PM MST reply actions

Yeah, the way the reports came out

I pictured JRich speeding past a preschool with a toddler just rolling around on the back seat.

by hcblankscreen on Feb 16, 2009 6:54 PM MST up reply actions

What?

he just wasn’t in a children’s car-seat

With all the information out there today, it is not excusable. Just like drunk driving.

It said he was going back to the child’s mother, so I’m assuming it’s not his wife. If I was the child’s mother, I’d hang him by his nads. Just dumb.

Mmmmm ... Guinness

by JSun on Feb 16, 2009 8:47 PM MST up reply actions

Agreed.

Besides, what difference does it make whether he was in a car seat, strapped into a seat belt, or just running loose in the car? If you’re driving 90 mph through town with your child in the car it had better be because you’re rushing him to the hospital!

by TexSUN on Feb 16, 2009 9:30 PM MST up reply actions

well...

let’s give kerr and sarver a few weeks…if they do the right thing and get rid of him, I’ll feel very good about it, but, my guess is they won’t. Colangelo would’ve gotten rid of him, I wish I knew more about sarver – bryan colangelo – like what happened that bryan didn’t stay…I only know a little bit….

by be-the-ball on Feb 17, 2009 12:10 AM MST up reply actions

Again, I even stated in my post that “this doesn’t really change anything.” I was just informing about details I had read.

by jburning on Feb 17, 2009 5:59 AM MST up reply actions

Well,

he could have killed a child driving around drunk. The fact that it’s his own kid is pretty disturbing though.

by Diosnomeama on Feb 16, 2009 7:08 PM MST reply actions

Time to grow up

Hey J. Rich you are an adult, wake the “F” up.

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by Grockcubs on Feb 16, 2009 8:29 PM MST reply actions

Back in the olden days

when I was a kid nobody used seatbelts, partly because a lot of cars didn’t even have them. I haven’t a clue how my mother managed to even concentrate enough to drive with six kids in the car. It’s amazing we all lived somehow.

Needless to say, the law says kids have to be in car seats until a certain age and/or weight. Speeding 90 in a 35 is bad enough, but the charges are worse if there is a child in the car. Same thing if he had his child in the car when he got the DUI there would have been more charges.

J-Rich, you’re an idiot. Can we trade him back?

by TwinnerA on Feb 16, 2009 10:27 PM MST reply actions