Quentin Richardson almost followed in Paul Pierce’s footsteps. While Pierce was a junior star at Kansas, he hosted Richardson’s campus visit. The high school senior from Chicago was said to be “80 percent” leaning toward attending Kansas, taking over for Pierce as the team’s star perimeter scorer. Perhaps Richardson would then follow Pierce to the NBA and become a star there, too.

It didn’t happen. Pierce went on to play a long, excellent career, winning a ring with the

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