RICHARDSON TRADED 4 TIMES IN 2 MONTHS

Quentin Richardson and Dwyane Wade are regular workout partners during the offseason. They're about to get a chance to play together all year long. Richardson's wild summer tour of the NBA continued Thursday night, when he was traded by the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Miami Heat for center Mark Blount.

Richardson spent the last four seasons with the New York Knicks and now has been traded four times in less than two months: to Memphis on draft night, then to the Los Angeles Clippers, then to Minnesota and now to Miami. Richardson is due to earn about $9 million this season. Blount was to make around $7.9 million.

"We are very excited to add Quentin Richardson," Heat president Pat Riley said. "Over the course of his career, he has proven to be a fierce competitor, a great locker room presence and a very prolific 3-point shooter who may be one of the strongest perimeter players in the NBA. We feel that he will be able to match-up well against the top scorers in the league."

- Jason