(Sound familiar?) Still Richmond flew with the team to Denver for the season opener on Nov. 1. Or proof, finally, almost 30 years later, that Run TMC is more like the rest of us, even if the two seasons they played together would suggest otherwise. I’m like, that’s us!” Except these Warriors, without fail, make the playoffs. Please check your inbox for a confirmation message. The stories continue. “That’s Mully,” Richmond says of Chris Mullin, who is 54 and prone to iTurnovers. Sound familiar?
Mullin’s cellphone is now apparently chlorine-free—for now. He starts with a confession: Yes, he had donned workout gear that afternoon, gone to the gym, stretched, bent toward an exercise mat—and then decided against physical activity. The crowd cheers, then stands and roars, louder, more proof that Run TMC still resonates beyond YouTube highlight montages, throwback jerseys and vintage posters of the three posing in front of a wall splattered with graffiti, with them wearing gym shorts and leather jackets.
These were the Warriors before these Warriors, the creation of coach Don Nelson and his early brand of small ball. How Hardaway would show up earlier and earlier every morning in an effort to beat Mullin to the Stairmaster, only to find the veteran had invariably finished his workout.
The only thing better than that? Mullin made his first All-Star team, averaging 26.5 points per game, and Richmond nabbed Rookie of the Year honors. Few could. The crowd oohs.
Apparently this guard never saw Hardaway dunk over Kareem or talk smack to Shaq.
This was Hardaway, dribbling and dishing, dribbling and dishing, driving as a second or last resort. That’s what basketball was becoming, a game predicated on motion and pace and versatility, with traditional bigs becoming less and less important. He was a six-time NBA All-Star, a five-time All-NBA Team member, and a former NBA Rookie of the Year. “I felt like we were one piece away at that point,” says another of those Warriors, Mario Elie. The trio debuted in 1989–90, near the end of the Showtime-era Lakers, before Jordan came to rule. Those Warriors, who gave up a whopping 119.4 points a night, did not. Richmond knew of Mullin. The Warriors selected Richmond, the 6'5" scoring savant from Kansas State, with the fifth pick in the 1988 draft. But many nights also highlighted the Warriors’ limitations. “People don’t know their history,” Richmond says. They figured the wins and championships would follow and assumed the trio needed only one more element: time.
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The Warriors won 44 games and took out the second-seeded Spurs in the first round of the playoffs, using that three-on-three system to isolate a young David Robinson on the opposite side of the floor. Lori Hoye does. Please make sure all the fields are filled out correctly and try again. Both agree they should have won at least one title, and Nelson’s eventual admission that trading Richmond was a mistake only reinforced that belief.
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. Where is Run TMC now? In 2001, Mullin retired, after a one-year reunion with the Warriors that followed a three-season interlude in Indiana.
Only Richmond wasn’t sure. Richmond was traded to the Kings in November of 1991.
Sometimes that didn’t matter. For more great storytelling and in-depth analysis, subscribe to the magazine — and get up to 87 percent off the cover price plus two FREE gifts. Y’all were some bad motherf-------. He heard later that Magic Johnson gathered his team and told them that Run TMC “thinks this is a show,” that “they’re insulting us.” Los Angeles won the series in five games, but the trio had converted thousands to their score-score-and-score-some-more approach.
But it’s theirs. His former Warriors teammate, Tim Hardaway, is 51. “I traded you to Sacramento,” Nelson responded.
He attended Moberly Area Junior College in Missouri for two years before transferring to Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas, in 1986.
But for some games they ignored it altogether, using a simple motion offense, screening for jump shots, looking for backdoor cuts and open threes. It looks easier than it was in OKC.
He told Hardaway to bring the ball up, let everyone else touch it, and if none of his teammates shot, then go to the basket and score. In 976 NBA g “It is with great sadness and pain that we inform you that our youngest son, Shane, unexpectedly passed away last night. Elie became an assistant coach.
Mullin was a 6'6" forward who could thread passes between defenders and score from anywhere on the court, if not win 100-meter dashes. Mullin says Hardaway was Curry before Curry, Harden before Harden. The Warriors handed Mullin control of their basketball operations in ’04, and he hired Higgins as his general manager and Richmond as his special assistant. With future Hall of Famers Mitch Richmond and Chris Mullin, the trio would go on to be called Run TMC, a play on the legendary rap group Run-DMC. She started in the Warriors’ statistics department in 1988, the year before Run TMC formed. He carried a cup of coffee onto the court and started to goofily run practice, pushing out his stomach and “acting like I was drunk.” Then he looked up at the stands and there was Nelson, glowering at him.
How soon the uninitiated can forget.