Basketball

Lured by more money and a chance to erase his drug-tarnished past, Micheal Ray Richardson said he will sign with the Philadelphia 76ers unless his Italian team matches the NBA club’s offer. Officials of Knorr Bologna said they would hold Richardson to his contract.

Richardson, in his third season with Knorr, is under a two-year contract at $550,000 a year. He said the 76ers have offered him a guaranteed, two-year deal worth $800,000 a season.