Michael Ray Richardson, a former Knicks player, has died at the age of 70 from prostate cancer. Richardson, nicknamed “Sugar,” was the fourth pick in the 1978 NBA Draft. He earned two All-Star bids and twice earned First Team All-Defense honors while playing four seasons with the team. The Knicks traded Richardson for Bernard King, sending him to the Warriors. He played just 33 games with the Warriors before they traded him to the Nets for Sleepy Floyd and Mickey Johnson. In 1986, he violated the league’s drug policy three times. He was ultimately banned from the NBA for life for drug violations, making him the first NBA player to face those consequences. He wrote a book, “Banned: How I Squandered an All-Star NBA Career Before Finding My Redemption,” where he admits that he had a cocaine a

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