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The Spurs beat the Wizards on Tuesday in their first Las Vegas Summer League game without Victor Wembanyama. They shut down Wembanyama for the rest of the Summer League after their loss to the Trail Blazers on Sunday. It didn’t matter to San Antonio though as they defeated the Wizards 96-85. Malaki Branham led the…
The Washington Wizards have traded Rui Hachimura to the Los Angeles Lakes in exchange for Kendrick Nunn and three second-round picks. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski was the first to report the news. Hachimura, 24, did not agree to a rookie extension before the season with the Wizards and is rumored to have requested a trade. The…
After making antisemitic remarks, Kyrie Irving is suspended for five games by the Brooklyn Nets. Over this time span, he won’t earn pay. Here’s the details of the suspension, as well as an overview of Irving’s career. Antisemitic Remarks The main point of contention in the banning of Kyrie was his supporting of a film…
The Washington Wizards have agreed to a max extension with free-agent guard Bradley Beal according to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Beal, 29, has spent his entire 10-year career with the Wizards. He has averaged 22.1 points and 4.2 assists per game in his career. Over his 10 seasons, he has made three All-Star Games and one…
The Washington Wizards made back-to-back moves just before the 2022 NBA trade deadline. They have traded Montrezl Harrell to the Charlotte Hornets for Ish Smith and Vernon Carey. They also sent Aaron Holiday to the Phoenix Suns, who have also been busy near the end of the trade window. ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported the news…
Wednesday evening, the Cleveland Cavaliers crushed the Miami Heat by a convincing score of 111-85. Cleveland led throughout the majority of the game and took a commanding lead during the second quarter. From there, the Wine and Gold did not look back as they only added to their cushion throughout the contest. The Heat was…
The Cleveland Cavaliers’ five-game losing streak is over, and Evan Mobley‘s return has much to do with that. The Cavs are coming off back-to-back comfortable wins over the Magic (105-92) and the Mavericks (114-96). The losing streak skid was broken as Cleveland led nearly the entire Magic game and led against the Mavs by as…
After a four-game winning streak, the Cleveland Cavaliers were dealt a loss by the Washington Wizards Wednesday evening, 97-94. It was a highly competitive, back-and-forth game until the very last seconds. For the Cavs, they fell on the short side of the stick after Kyle Kuzma drained two three-pointers within the last 24 seconds. Cleveland…
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…
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…
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…
The Wizards have had a busy, productive offseason. There has been no shortage of action between the perennial Bradley Beal trade rumors, hiring Wes Unseld Jr. as head coach, drafting Corey Kispert and Isaiah Todd and trading Russell Westbrook to acquire Spencer Dinwiddie. Kyle Kuzma, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Montrezl Harrell as part of a five-team…
The NBA community was stunned last night by a trade between the Washington Wizards and Los Angeles Lakers that sent former NBA MVP point guard Russell Westbrook to the other side of the country. He is now the only former NBA MVP to be traded three times in his career. The rapid-fire news was all…
The Washington Wizards went into last night’s game against the 76ers with their backs against the proverbial wall after being thrashed 132-103 in game 3. Many fans and pundits alike had already written off the outcome of the series as a foregone conclusion. The Wizards however, clearly had other plans. They responded to the noise…
The Washington Wizards dropped game two to the Philadelphia 76ers on Wednesday night in a disappointing fashion, losing by 25 points. After hanging with Philadelphia through much of game one, the 76ers took control of this game early and never relinquished control. Game 1 Game 1, which the Wizards lost 125-118, provided some encouraging signs.…
With 18 games left in the NBA regular season, the Washington Wizards still have a solid shot at making the play-in tournament for one of the final two playoff seeds. The play-in tournament is played between the seventh, eighth, ninth and 10th seeds and the winners take the final two playoff spots. This graphic from…
Going into and during the season, it was vocalized by both the front office staff and coaches alike that the Washington Wizards’ goal for this season was to make the playoffs. Indeed, teams do not trade away their best player for a former MVP in Russell Westbrook with the intention of tanking. On paper, they…
When the Washington Wizards drafted forward Rui Hachimura with the ninth pick in the 2019 draft, expectations were understandably high. He had a decorated college career at Gonzaga in which he was a consensus All-American and was the West Coast Conference Player of the Year in 2018-2019. His game took huge leaps every year he…
