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Article: Richmond's Ready For Crossover Move; New Wizard `Excited' to Come East
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- The Washington Post
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- May 19, 1998
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Everything surrounding Mitch Richmond at this moment is
quintessential California, from the warm sun streaming through the
window to the tangle of freeways below to Richmond's attire of
beachcomber shorts, gym shoes and loose-fitting tennis shirt. It's
the stuff of paradise for many people. But Richmond's smile is
generated by the vision of something 3,000 miles away, a vision of
cold weather, hard-nosed basketball and a team for which there are
expectations not only to make the playoffs but be a force in them.
"It's time," he said of the trade that sent him and
Sacramento Kings teammate Otis Thorpe to the Washington Wizards for