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04/16/2002 - Updated 12:20 AM ET ________________________________________ Golden State Warriors • Schedule/results • Statistics • Roster • Notes ________________________________________ Golden State rookies find that NBA life is hard work USA TODAY followed Jason Richardson out of Michigan State and Troy Murphy out of Notre Dame, before and after the 2001 draft. Both were drafted in the first round by Golden State, along with second-round pick Gilbert Arenas out of Arizona. This is the last of the season-long series in which USA TODAY periodically updated the progress of the three Warriors rookies. By Roscoe Nance, USA TODAY By Ben Margot, AP Gilbert Arenas, left, and Jason Richardson are approaching the end of their first NBA season. Warriors clubhouse • Mar. 26: Warriors rookies settle into roles • Jan. 21: Arenas finally gets a chance • Dec. 17: Golden State rookies learn on the job • Nov. 20: NBA 101 for rookies • Warriors team page With 80 games down and two to go, Troy Murphy said it seems as though his NBA rookie season started four years ago, not five months. Murphy, 21, is no longer the wide-eyed youngster who at the beginning of the year bought thousands of dollars' worth of suits from three young ladies in a hotel room. But he is still a bit awestruck, especially when he looks at his bank account. "I'd looked at my account last year and I had a couple of hundred dollars," said the 6-11 forward. "Now I look at it, and I think it shouldn't have my name next to it." But neither Murphy, nor teammates Jason Richardson and Gilbert Arenas — who all have the same agent — fell into the spending trap that often snares many young professional athletes. The trio managed to get through their rookie seasons relatively unscathed both on and off the court. "They're young and trying to save as much as they can," said Golden State Warriors community relations director Otis Smith, the rookies' mentor. "As they have grown, they've learned to watch what they spend and how they spend. At the start of the season they bought their toys then they settled into things." The only purchases Murphy has made since the season started have been a chair to go with a desk in his apartment (so he doesn't have to sit on his bed) and a set of dishes, which his mother made him buy after reading that he only had one fork, one plate, one knife and one spoon. He got one-quarter of his $2.3 million salary for this season up front and used it to buy furniture for his three-bedroom apartment in San Ramon and a car (GMC Danali). "I really don't spend my money on too much stuff," said Murphy. All three rookies have their paychecks direct-deposited into bank accounts, which they use to pay their monthly bills. "These guys have financial maturity beyond their years," said agent Dan Fegan. "We don't tell them how to spend their money." Arenas, 20, is the most frugal and the lowest paid of the three. As a second-round draft pick, he earned $332,817 this season on a two-year, $845,252 guaranteed contract. He doesn't carry a credit card. On the road he goes to lunch with Warriors community relations director Smith or Richardson, who always pay. That allows Arenas to save his $93 a day per diem. Arenas didn't start out being thrifty, though. Before the draft, thinking he'd be a first-round pick, he bought a Cadillac Escalade and spent $50,000 on custom features, including a sound system, four TVs, a six-disc DVD player, 22-inch rims and a security camera mounted on the rear bumper. "When you look at how much money you're going to make and after taxes, the Escalade was like half my money," Arenas said. "I was like, 'Can I give it back?' " Arenas did splurge two weeks ago and bought his live-in girlfriend, Rabena Williams, a $5,000 white gold necklace for her 21st birthday. Richardson, 21, who earned $2.4 million this season and is the highest paid, is also the biggest spender. He loves electronic gadgets — he has three cells phones and as many remote controls around his three-bedroom apartment as there are days of the week. But his spending sprees seldom exceed $100. "I'm very conscious of where my money is going," said Richardson, who estimates he saved about 65% of his salary this season. "I don't want to end up as a player who had a lot of money and wound up broke when he retired. " Lessons learned on the court Led by Richardson, a strong contender for Rookie of the Year, the trio made a positive impact even though the Warriors will miss the playoffs for a league-high eighth consecutive season and are tied for the worst record in the NBA. Richardson averages 13.9 points and 4.3 rebounds a game for the season and has drawn raves from opponents, who say he will be the player who emerges as the star of this season's rookie class once he improves his ball handling and attacks the basket more. Arenas started all 25 of Golden State's games since March 1 and averaged 14.0 points, 4.7 assists and 2.08 steals. His play could gain him a spot on the NBA All-Rookie second team and has fans debating if the Warriors should take Duke point guard Jason Williams in the draft. Murphy has played in all 80 games. His statistics, 5.9 points and 4.0 rebounds, tailed off as the long schedule took its toll. The trio is already looking forward to next season. It is unclear if all three will play with the Warriors' summer league team, but they are planning to return to the Bay Area after taking some time off to work on their games with the coaching staff. The Warriors led or were within five points of the lead in 31 of their 60 losses. The rookies say with the experience they gained this season, next year they should be able to win some of the close games. "It won't be like this next year," Murphy said. One of the things their teammates like most about the rookies is their enthusiasm. Win or lose, they say they show up for practice and games ready to go and with a positive attitude. "Even if we lose 12 or 13 games in a row, they don't give up," said Antawn Jamison, the Warriors captain and leading scorer. "They're enjoying life. For some of us who have been in the league awhile, it's a business. They remind me that it's still a game." All three have learned how difficult the NBA lifestyle can be on relationships. Murphy and his girlfriend, a student at Notre Dame, broke up after a year and half. "She heard things from people at school about life in the NBA," Murphy said. "Her friends put things in her head. Because of the time difference, sometimes we couldn't get in touch with each other. That had a lot to do with it." Richardson still has his same girlfriend, Roshonda Jacqmain, a student at Saginaw Valley University and the mother of his 2-year-old daughter Jaela. "She had concerns about the NBA lifestyle," Richardson said. "It was a time when she would come to me and talk about it all the time saying, 'I know this and that happens on the road. I know girls are at the hotel.' I said, 'Roshonda, it don't happen that way, not with our team. Maybe if we were a winning team, we'd have girls around like that.'" Winning the dunk contest and MVP of the Rookie Challenge during All-Star Weekend has given a measure of celebrity to Richardson. But it has come with a price. He now forgoes venturing into San Francisco alone to shop or just walk around as he did at the beginning of the season, opting to have his uncle or brother, Terrence, accompany him. "There haven't been any incidents, and I'm not scared, but just for safety, I don't go places by myself now," Richardson said. "Everybody is not happy to see you being successful." USATODAY.com partners: USA WEEKEND Sports Weekly Education Space.com Home Travel News Money Sports Life Tech Weather Resources: Mobile news Site map F

Laura is supposed to be educated but behaves like a ghetto rat. Always ready to fight. I can imagine how she beats her children if this is "normal" behavior.

OMG, DCbound, you said it correctly! What is wrong with these women.. They are having babies for the wrong reason and backwards.. What happened to making him your wife and then the mother of his children. She is stuck with 4 kids and who in the HELL will want her? We(women)need to put things in perspective and get our lives in order.. We are accepting less from a man, just so that we can HAVE ONE!!.. SAD, SAD, SAD!! I have been married for 23 years and it takes work.. People aren't marrying for love anymore, it is all about MONEY! That is why it doesn't work!!

Honestly...you can tell shes a "goof" ball. The way she hangs her funny looking mouth and the dumb stuff that comes out of it when she speaks....she speaks like her body out grew her brain..somebody put a helmet on her before she hurts herself...That Real Talk.

That comment Laura made was so out of line and ignorant!