CHICAGO -- The aboriginal time it happened, Quentin Richardson was 12 years old. His earlier brother Bernard got bent up in a robbery on the city's South Side and was attempt to afterlife in 1992. It was one in a alternation of tragedies for the family: His mother Emma died of breast cancer, a grandmother, Ada, anesthetized abroad and afresh there was Bernard, just 23 at the time.
The additional time, Quentin was a developed man, 25 years old and abundant into his sixth NBA division if he got the buzz call: Addition robbery, addition gun, addition shooting. Addition brother. This time it was Lee Jr., 31. He and their ancestor Lee Sr. were alfresco the ancestors home at midday if a van pulled up. They ordered the Richardsons to lie down but Lee Jr. reportedly fought back. He was attempt four times.
Quentin was with the Knicks on an off-day in Seattle if he abstruse of the awful news. He flew home that night no best the youngest of Lee Sr.'s and Emma's 5 accouchement but as the youngest of three. The 12-year adept bouncer carries his brothers with him -- Bernard in a boom on his back, Lee in one on his appropriate forearm, always in his heart.
Last weekend, Richardson agitated them home again, walking the streets of the South Side, aggravating to additional added families the abhorrence that his endured. He abutting Friar Michael Pfleger, activist pastor of the St. Sabina Parish, in a adjacency advance adjoin abandon on Friday night. On Saturday, Richardson abutting with NBA fable Isiah Thomas and adolescent players such as Joakim Noah and Taj Gibson in the "Peace Tournament."
The accident was advised to get battling assemblage associates off the corners, assimilate a cloister and cutting at baskets rather than at anniversary other.
"I'm from these neighborhoods. I apperceive these issues," Richardson said account afore the aboriginal of two amateur at the St. Sabina gym. "My brother [Cedric] attends this church. This is a allotment of my fabric. That's why I'm here. I absolutely apperceive the aftereffect it has on kids and families."
The additional time, Quentin was a developed man, 25 years old and abundant into his sixth NBA division if he got the buzz call: Addition robbery, addition gun, addition shooting. Addition brother. This time it was Lee Jr., 31. He and their ancestor Lee Sr. were alfresco the ancestors home at midday if a van pulled up. They ordered the Richardsons to lie down but Lee Jr. reportedly fought back. He was attempt four times.
Quentin was with the Knicks on an off-day in Seattle if he abstruse of the awful news. He flew home that night no best the youngest of Lee Sr.'s and Emma's 5 accouchement but as the youngest of three. The 12-year adept bouncer carries his brothers with him -- Bernard in a boom on his back, Lee in one on his appropriate forearm, always in his heart.
Last weekend, Richardson agitated them home again, walking the streets of the South Side, aggravating to additional added families the abhorrence that his endured. He abutting Friar Michael Pfleger, activist pastor of the St. Sabina Parish, in a adjacency advance adjoin abandon on Friday night. On Saturday, Richardson abutting with NBA fable Isiah Thomas and adolescent players such as Joakim Noah and Taj Gibson in the "Peace Tournament."
The accident was advised to get battling assemblage associates off the corners, assimilate a cloister and cutting at baskets rather than at anniversary other.
"I'm from these neighborhoods. I apperceive these issues," Richardson said account afore the aboriginal of two amateur at the St. Sabina gym. "My brother [Cedric] attends this church. This is a allotment of my fabric. That's why I'm here. I absolutely apperceive the aftereffect it has on kids and families."
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