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It’s official: the Philadelphia 76ers will match up with the Brooklyn Nets in the first round of the 2023 NBA Playoffs. Philadelphia, the Eastern Conference’s third seed, finished the season with a 54-28 record. They will look to advance past the second round for the first time since 2001. Brooklyn, the East’s sixth seed, had…
This article will go over the Predictions for the 2022 NBA Conference Finals. Sunday gave everyone a good shock as Dallas took care of Phoenix at home. Not only did they take care of them, but they absolutely obliterated them by 33 points. The other game, Bucks VS. Celtics, was another non-nailbiter. The Celtics took…
This second round in the NBA playoffs is getting so intense. Teams are bringing it to seven or six games while the only series completed is the Heat and 76ers. Even that one went to six games. This article is going to include the other playoff performers that are making these long series happen. Luka…
So far, this year’s playoffs have been pretty competitive for the most part. Now it’s time to go over the NBA 2022 Playoffs Predictions (Round 2) Warriors Win in Six The Warriors are one of the deeper rosters in the league right now and they are coming off a five-game series win over the Nuggets…
The Dallas Mavericks have traded Kristaps Porzingis to the Washington Wizards. In return for Porzingis, the Mavericks will receive Davis Bertans and Spencer Dinwiddie. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported the news via Twitter on Thursday afternoon. Porzingis began his career as a New York Knick, garnering fame after Knicks fans were initially disappointed with his drafting.…
Just a couple of months ago, the Wizards sat atop the NBA’s eastern conference. They had convincingly beaten a bevy of talented teams in the process, with wins against the Cleveland Cavaliers, Memphis Grizzlies, Toronto Raptors and Boston Celtics (twice!). With a new head coach at the helm in West Unseld Jr. and a fresh-look…
Washington Wizards All-NBA shooting guard had been one of the more prominent NBA players to publicly state that he had not been vaccinated against COVID-19, but that has reportedly changed according to Ava Wallace of the Washington Post. Beal had entered health and safety protocols two days before Christmas on December 23. The report comes…
The Wizards continued their surprising success this season with a 115-107 win against the Minnesota Timberwolves Wednesday night that moved them to 14-8. The score was close throughout, but Washington managed to pull away at the end of the game thanks to some big shots from Montrezl Harrell and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope. Additionally, Wiz fans had…
The Wizards are facing a unique challenge this year; they have depth, and lots of it. It is either a good or a bad problem depending on the viewpoint one takes. Some awkwardness in ironing out the rotation has been avoided with injuries to certain players like Davis Bertans, Rui Hachimura and Thomas Bryant. Once…
Before the Washington Wizards hired their current President and General Manager, Tommy Sheppard, the post of general manager was held by Ernie Grunfeld, a pariah among Wizards fans. Grunfeld held this position from 2003 until 2018 when he was finally relieved of his position after a disastrous few years at the helm towards the end…
The Wizards were able to erase a 19-point deficit and get a big 105-100 win at home against the New Orleans Pelicans on Monday night. It marked five straight wins for the Wizards and kept them in first place in the Eastern conference at 10-3. They were able to come away with the W despite…
On a night where Wizards’ superstar Bradley Beal was admittedly not totally mentally invested in the game due to the death of his Grandmother, the Wizards were still able to pull out a gritty 97-94 win over the upstart Cleveland Cavaliers thanks to some late-game heroics from Kyle Kuzma. While Beal might have scored just…
The Wizards are off to a 7-3 start this season, easily one of the best in recent memory. They are currently tied for first place in the Eastern Conference with the Miami Heat and fellow upstart Chicago Bulls. Some have taken a pessimistic approach to Washington’s hot start and theorized that they will return to…
Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal has proven himself to be quite the prolific scorer over the past couple of NBA seasons. Indeed, he has averaged over 30 points per game in each of his last two regular-season campaigns, finishing overall second in the league in this metric in 2019-2020 and 2020-2021. He can even claim…
The Washington Wizards kicked off their season in the best way possible with a 98-83 win over the Toronto Raptors. They maintained a comfortable lead for most of the game and held Toronto to just 30.9 percent shooting from the floor and (30/97) and 20.6 percent on 3-pointers (7/34). Washington came away with the win…
Washington Wizards All-NBA shooting guard Bradley Beal turned heads with his comments regarding the COVID-19 vaccination at Wizards Media Day on Monday, in which he seemed to question the efficacy of vaccines against the novel coronavirus. Beal asked reporters during the media session “I would ask the question to those who are getting vaccinated ‘why…
Wizards fans are used to the noise by now, it is constant and unrelenting. The ever-persistent speculation that Washington should, or will trade Bradley Beal becomes more prevalent with every season, with every postseason failure. It comes from all angles, in Twitter back-and-forths, mentioned in passing in casual conversations when someone mentions they are a…
With the 15th pick in the 2021 NBA draft, the Washington Wizards selected Corey Kispert, a 6-foot-6 forward from Gonzaga who was widely considered by many to be the best pure 3-point shooter in the draft. Kispert will enter the league with the experience (he played all four years at Gonzaga) needed to be a…
Newly minted Washington Wizards Kyle Kuzma has had a strange and tumultuous NBA arc up to this point in his career. He burst onto the scene in 2017 and averaged 17.3 points per game in his first two NBA seasons and had many pundits anointing him a rising young star in the league. He spent…
It would not be an understatement to say that the Wizards are a whole different team than they were a season ago. Indeed, they added 10 new players to their roster this offseason through trades and the draft. Most of these additions were a part of the five-team trade that sent point guard Russell Westbrook…
