Top 10 NBA careers by Michigan State basketball alumni

4. Jason Richardson

Jason Richardson, like Steve Smith, is sending his son to play for Michigan State basketball. Having a legacy recruit who is also a borderline five-star is going to be great for the program and if Jase is anything like his dad, he's going to have a ton of success in East Lansing and a healthy NBA career.

J-Rich was one of those "must-see" players during his time in East Lansing and he was just a freak athlete which carried over into the NBA where he won back-to-back NBA Dunk Contests.

Outside of being an incredible dunker, Richardson was just an overall special player in the league, averaging 17.1 points per game over 14 years. He also shot an impressive 37 percent from 3-point range over his career which you don't often see with athletes like him. Richardson, Jaren Jackson Jr., Shannon Brown, and Miles Bridges were all kind of cut from the same cloth as they were/are all freak athletes and could shoot the ball, too.

If only we can get Coen Carr to emulate some of their games.

Anyways, Richardson had a long, healthy career and only averaged less than 10 points per game one time which happened to be his final season and he played just 19 games. He did average more than 20 points three times in his career and he was the star of the Golden State Warriors before they became the dynasty that we know them as today.

Richardson was fun to watch and will go down as one of the greatest Spartan hoopers of all time.