When you live in South Florida, you tend to run into a lot of different aspects of tropical living. One of those aspects for Philadelphia 76ers guard Josh Richardson was the wildlife.
While a member of the Miami Heat for four seasons before being acquired by the Sixers in June, Richardson experienced a lot while playing in Florida. He experienced a lot of success playing for the Heat and he learned a lot playing next to living legend, Dwyane Wade.
However, when you live in Miami and just Florida in general, you’ll run into some crazy wildlife. So naturally, he ran into an alligator, right? They’re very common in South Florida for finding their way into people’s yards.
“Nah, but Goran Dragic had one in his backyard one time,” said Richardson in an exclusive 1-on-1 with Sixers Wire. “I remember he told me about it, but at my house, I just had a lot of iguanas in my backyard, I actually named them.”
Each iguana had a name as Richardson wanted to have some fun with his backyard invaders.
“Well, there’s Terry who was the first one,” he explained. “When I moved there he was there. He’s like a little green one, like light green. Then there was OG Larry because he was really big, he was like big, like dark green and he had these big spikes on his back, so he was like OG Larry. Then there was Barry who was just real skittish. He would just kind of run around and piss me off and that’s it. That’s the three.”
Another aspect of living in Miami is the ocean. It sounds wonderful, right? Who wouldn’t want to be near the water all of the time? If you ask the Sixers shooting guard, the ocean can be a bit scary.
“I get in the ocean like a lot,” he explained. “Like in Miami, my house is on the water and I’ll get in the water and whatever, but once I get out in open ocean, that stuff really scares me. That fear is real.”
The good thing about living in Philadelphia is the ocean is about an hour away at the Jersey Shore so he can sleep a little easier at night.
There will be more coming from this time with the Sixers 2-guard. [lawrence-related id=22945,22923,22910]