Richie Adams was born on March 15,1963 and is an American former basketball player known for his college basketball career at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas as well as for his manslaughter conviction of a 15-year-old girl later in his life.
12 Facts About Richie Adams
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Richie Adams enrolled at Benjamin Franklin High School in East Harlem where he would play with future National Basketball Association player Walter Berry as well as Gary Springer, Kenny Hutchinson and Lonnie Green, all of whom were jointly credited with making BFHS the country's top-ranked team in the fall of 1979.
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Richie Adams played at the Entertainer's Basketball Classic at Rucker Park.
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In one game against Utah State, Richie Adams scored 37 points and grabbed 18 rebounds, and it was speculated that during Richie Adams' prime he could out-rebound Dennis Rodman.
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Richie Adams averaged 12.7 points and 6.7 rebounds his junior year and 16.1 and 7.9 as a senior.
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Richie Adams never made the final roster, getting cut in training camp, and his professional career consisted of a short stint in the United States Basketball League as well as a select few games in South America.
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Richie Adams was never able to escape the street mentality in which he grew up.
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Richie Adams was on a self-destructive path throughout college and that continued even after he was drafted by an NBA team; one day after Adams was chosen by the Bullets, he was arrested for car theft in the Bronx.
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Richie Adams was charged with holding up a woman in Manhattan, for purse-snatching, and again for another car theft.
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Richie Adams used drugs heavily and spent most of his earned basketball money on them.
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In 1996, Richie Adams was arrested for manslaughter after Norma Rodriguez, a 15-year-old high school girl, was found dead from a violent stomping on October 15 of the same year.
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Richie Adams began originally serving his sentence in Rikers Island Prison before getting moved to upstate New York.