Washington Wizards

This is it. Unless they meet in the playoffs, this is the only time this season that Washington Wizards fans will be able to express their love and affection for LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers. The last time Cleveland came to Washington, the Wizards snapped the Cavaliers' 13-game...

The Washington Wizards are 2-7 and Flip Saunder points out that the Dallas Mavericks had a similar record last season, but turned it around, finished the season with 50 wins and advanced to the second round of the playoffs. After starting last season 2-7, the Mavericks won their next five g...

It was a beautiful display of basketball, the kind that the Washington Wizards assumed would be a regular occurrence when Flip Saunders took over as head coach. The Washington Wizards scored 27 points in little more than seven minutes in the third quarter of their 106-103 loss to the Detro...

Maybe you're 13th best. (Photo by Ned Dishman/NBAE via Getty Images) The NBA released its ballot for the 2010 All-Star Game on Tuesday and Gilbert Arenas, Antawn Jamison and Caron Butler represent the Washington Wizards. But chosen by a panel of six scribes who selected the 120 names, Bren...

By reebokforthree 23. Milwaukee Bucks (20) – Brandon Jennings showed New York the mistake they made when they drafted Jordan Hill over him. 24. Washington Wizards (11) – A four-loss week hurts, Gilbert is scoring but he isn’t taking over like he did before the injury.

By pacejmiller To be honest, I was fully prepared to see the Indiana Pacers lose to the Washington Wizards.  The Pacers had been playing injured and poorly, with only one good quarter against the Knicks to prevent a winless season thus far. Well, as it turned out, the preparation was unnecessary.  The Pacer...

By pacejmiller No matter what, Pacers fans no longer have to fear a winless season.  Up next is another tough battle back home in Indiana against the Washington Wizards.  The Wizards are only 2-3 so far this season, but they’ve been dangerous because Gilbert Arenas is back and averaging 27.6 points per game....

If you want me to inspire you, Wizards, I will. (Photo by Doug Benc/Getty Images) The Miami Heat is a walking billboard for what the Washington Wizards want to accomplish: Want to go from putrid to the playoffs? Follow these steps. First, hire a new coach. Next, have your all-star guard with a h...

By spence Wizards fans will focus on all the bad calls that went against the team and there were certainly plenty of those. However, the Wizards lost because their big men couldn’t handle Shaq at all and because the entire team had nothing after a quick punch to start the game. The Cavaliers are an elite...

By Smooth Who: Cleveland Cavaliers (2-2) vs. Washington Wizards (2-1) Wizards: Gilbert Arenas, Mike Miller, Caron Butler, Fabricio Oberto, Brendan Haywood Wizards: Javaris Crittenton (Left Foot), Antawn Jamison (Right Shoulder) The Pick: Cavs 98, Wizards 96

By spence The Wizards were 4-12 overall in the playoffs against the Cavaliers from 2006-2008, including only two wins in eight contests in Cleveland. Despite beating Cleveland twice last year at Verizon Center, Washington hasn’t won during the regular season at Quicken Loans Arena since Feb. 24,...

By Michael Lee Caron Butler knows he can score, but now he wants to show he can be a top-notch defender for the Washington Wizards this season.

Flip Saunders opened his first Washington Wizards training camp with a hypnotist who had guard Nick Young running around like a horse.

By Michael Lee This isn't exactly a homecoming for Randy Foye, but the Washington Wizards' latest back-court addition joked that if he were any closer, he'd be in the backyard of his home in Newark, N.J.

Last season, Ernie Grunfeld fired the most successful Washington Wizards coach in decades and replaced him with someone who had no NBA coaching experience. He also watched his new $111 million player suit up for just two games. The final product: 19-63, one of the worst records in franchis...

New Washington Wizards coach Flip Saunders knows what he's getting into with Gilbert Arenas. Saunders knows Arenas has his own ideas about how his talents can best be used. Saunders knows Arenas is not shy about saying what he thinks. Saunders knows that a healthy, happy Arenas is one of the k...

By Michael Lee On the first day that NBA teams could officially sign free agents, Ron Artest lifted his new Michael Jackson-inspired jersey for the Los Angeles Lakers, Rasheed Wallace made the first step toward possibly establishing a Big Four with the Boston Celtics, and the Washington Wizards stoo...

D'Antoni's Knicks on fast track to power  WV In the Eastern Conference, only the Washington Wizards were worse. Of course, those in Spike Lee-land recall that D'Antoni lifted the Phoenix Suns from 29 to 62 wins once they landed point guard Steve Nash. Really, that isn't why the Knicks are ...

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 CA His name is Antawn Jamison, a member of the Washington Wizards. After losing Gilbert Arenas for the year's entirety, the Wizards finished tied for the second-worst record in the NBA. The Wizards have a very good shot at landing the number one pick in ...

BusinessWorld Online  WA •Wizards turn to Saunders: Flip Saunders officially has the job on the Washington Wizards' bench, complete with an $18 million, four-year contract and the task of picking up the pieces from one of the worst seasons in franchise history. ...

DPA SPORTS Basketball NBA LeBron, Cavs crush slumping Celtics, move to 19-0 at home By Paul Levine, dpa?? = ?? Los Angeles (dpa) - With the snow falling outside, the visiting Boston Celtics ran into a perfect storm inside. ?? LeBron James poured in 38 points, and the defensive-minded Cleve...

By Rashad Mobley Photo Credit: ICON Sports Media On December 23rd, Washington Wizards head coach Ed Tapscott inserted Dominic McGuire in the starting lineup. Wizards guard DeShawn Stevenson was struggling mightily, and voluntarily asked to come off the bench to improve this team's chances of winning....

By Rashad Mobley Etan Thomas is inactive this evening because he is undergoing a routine heart checkup at the Mayo Clinic.  Coach Tapscott stressed that this was routine.   Oleksiy Pecherov will be activated tonight as a result.  Andray Blatche, JaVale McGee and Darius Songalia are expected to mostly man...

If you haven't seen this yet, you have to watch the highlights of Miami's 130-129 OT win over the Warriors. Dwyane Wade was the hero, but Michael Beasley, Udonis Haslem, and Chris Quinn all made HUGE game-saving plays. Jamal Crawford scored 40. The Warriors -- in a real funk now -- made all kind...

By Rashad Mobley After their season ending loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers in June, the biggest question around Washington, D.C. was, “Will Gilbert Arenas and Antawn Jamison be re-signed?”  Owner Abe Pollin and Team President Ernie Grunfeld quickly answered those questions the first week of July by sig...

By J.E. Skeets Last Season: 43-39; lost in first round of playoffs to LeBron The Wizards are thin, thinner than they were last year, and getting older in all the wrong places. In an improved Eastern Conference, that will be enough to drag things down. Michael Bay's Twitter Season Projection:

By Rashad Mobley WIZARDS FORWARD CARON BUTLER WIZARDS GUARD DESHAWN STEVENSON On expectations for this season: “The first thing is to get everybody healthy…win games and get to the playoffs, get past the first round and do the things that we know we can do.”

By noreply@blogger.com (David Friedman) Arenas is an erratic gunner who has a me-first agenda that gets in the way of team success, which is why the Wizards do not suffer noticeably in his absence even though he is easily the most publicized player on the team. As I pointed out near the end of last season, during the past two seasons, the Wizards have done better with Caron Butler in the lineup sans Arenas than with Arenas in the lineup sans Butler. Last season, the Wizards started out 3-5 with Arenas before Arenas was sidelined by a knee injury. They went 35-31 without Arenas before he returned to play five late season games; the Wizards went 3-2 in those games and 2-1 in three late season games that he sat out. Overall, the Wizards were 37-32 without Arenas last year and 6-7 with him. Obvious...   [read the full post]

By David Friedman Of course, no Cleveland-Washington playoff game this year would be complete without the obligatory incident featuring extracurricular contact and jawing by Wizards' players, with both the contact and the jawing generally directed at James. This time, Darius Songaila made a backhand slap to James' face after Songaila had already fouled him on a driving move. James simply rubbed his jaw and moved away but players from both teams congregated around each other and started woofing and posturing. For no apparent reason, Stevenson slapped down Anderson Varejao's arm. After the officials sorted everything out, Songaila, Stevenson and Varejao received technical fouls.   [read the full post]

By Ryan Jones CLEVELAND WINS THE TIP. “Awful pass by Stevenson.” —Mike Tirico “Foul by Stevenson.” — Mike Tirico “Stevenson off the mark.” —Mike Tirico Some other stuff happens, and then Antonio Daniels hits a three to put the Wizards back on top, 23-22. Jamison dittos, 44-41. 4Q: Caron hits a pair. 80-75.

By David Friedman In my Cavs-Wizards series preview article for CavsNews.com, I predicted that this series would start out 2-2 before the Cavs prevail in six games. I said that the keys for the Cavs, as always, are the brilliance of LeBron James supplemented by team defense and rebounding, while the Wizards must focus on teamwork and ball movement on offense while limiting James to near his average on defense, thus forcing other Cavs to perform very well. I also predicted that--contrary to all suggestions from the Wizards--Arenas would rejoin the starting lineup, most likely in game three. So far, the series has played out according to the script that I described. The Cavaliers stayed true to their recipe for success in the first two games while at the same ti...   [read the full post]

By David Friedman Jamison is a thoughtful, classy individual who must privately be appalled at the way that Arenas and Stevenson have acted. Jamison tried to distance himself from their comments, declaring that they took place a month ago and that he and his teammates absolutely did not underestimate the Cavs. Of course, Jamison is not entirely correct: while Stevenson's statement is a month old, Arenas stuck his foot in his mouth right before the playoffs began and specifically said that the Wizards wanted to face Cleveland. There must be some fascinating closed door conversations in that Wizards' locker room, particularly between the business-like captains Jamison and Butler and Arenas and Stevenson.   [read the full post]

By David Friedman Yes, this was just game one and the Wizards may very well win game two and seize homecourt advantage but the point is that we have years of evidence from the regular season and the playoffs about both James and Arenas and that mountain of evidence shows that James is a franchise player and that Arenas is not. That does not mean that Arenas has no value or that he makes the team worse or that he can't have a big game and carry the Wizards to a win or two in this series--but it does mean that, barring evidence to the contrary, he cannot lift the Wizards the same way that James lifted the Cavs last season. As Coach Brown predicted, several players took turns guarding Arenas. James can perhaps bother Arenas the most because James is much bigger and just as qui...   [read the full post]

By Leitch Over the next few days, Basket Bawful and Free Darko will be previewing each NBA Playoff series. Basket Bawful looks at the Eastern Conference today, finishing with the series between the Washington Wizards and the Cleveland Cavaliers, which begins Saturday.

By David Friedman The Bottom Line: The Sixers could have moved up to fifth place in the East but instead they slid to seventh and the Wizards are now in fifth place. Washington controlled this game on both the inside and the outside, outrebounding Philadelphia 48-36 and shooting a blistering 12-22 (.545) from three point range. Antawn Jamison had an excellent game, posting game-high totals in points (25) and rebounds (13) to help the Wizards make up for the absence of injured All-Star Caron Butler. Arenas got off to a slow start, shooting just 2-8 from the field, but he owned the fourth quarter, scoring 12 points on 5-6 shooting while also contributing as a rebounder and playmaker. This is the Arenas that Wizards' fans have been waiting all season to see and if th...   [read the full post]

By David Friedman The Washington Wizards are barely above .500 (41-37) and the Boston Celtics easily have the best record in the NBA (62-16) but with a 109-95 win on Wednesday the Wizards became the only team to beat Boston three times this season, claiming the season series by a 3-1 tally. Antawn Jamison led the way for Washington with 27 points and 11 rebounds and his third quarter throwdown over Kevin Garnett is sure to be replayed countless times. DeShawn Stevenson added 14 points and four assists, while Caron Butler filled up many spaces in the boxscore: 13 points, 10 assists, seven rebounds--and seven turnovers. Gilbert Arenas, playing in just his third game after returning from knee surgery, had 13 points, three assists, one rebound and four steals in...   [read the full post]

By Ira Winderman The good news? Two of the next four games will not be televised in South Florida. Consider it the mercy rule.At least Pat Riley acknowledged Friday that he sees nothing wrong with Heat fans putting their hopes in securing the No. 1 pick in the draft."If we get the No. 1 pick," he said, "we will have e...

Former Laker, and current Washington Wizards forward, Caron Butler, talks to Money about playing most of the season without Gilbert Arenas, and he talks about the short time he spent playing with the Lakers!

By Atma Brother ONE From the Chris Webber/ Juwan Howard era Bullets to the failed Mitch Richmond/ Rod Strickland experiment to the disasterous Michael Jordan comeback Wizards, which were only good for some fly retro striped Bullets jerseys to the assemblage of the Washington Warriors with Larry Hughes,...

By David Friedman Tim Legler said that the Wizards need Arenas because his special talents give Washington a chance to beat elite teams on a given night. That is interesting--I guess Legler missed that Washington has beaten Boston twice this season and just recently routed Dallas. Legler added that this year's Wizards are much better defensively because Antonio Daniels is a better, more physical defender than Arenas and that Daniels puts more pressure on opposing point guards than Arenas did. Daniels is obviously not a big time scorer but that is not a bad thing; he shoots a good percentage, gets the ball into the hands of his team's scorers and plays good defense. In other words, Daniels plays like a point guard. With Arenas, it was all about the show--the Age...   [read the full post]

33-- The number of points for small forward Caron Butler, who has taken over for the Wizards since Gilbert Arenas has been out after having knee surgery in November. Overheard -- Pretty hard to overhear anything happening on the court when you’re 20 rows up, which is where the visitor’s med...

By David Friedman Mannix mentions how well that Butler, Antawn Jamison and Brendan Haywood are playing. I don't dispute that the Wizards would not be winning games without their production; my point is that great players usually help everyone around them perform better, so it is a bit odd that so many Wizards players are thriving in Arenas' absence. Mannix raises the possibility that if the Wizards continue to do well without Arenas that perhaps General Manager Ernie Grunfeld will consider not re-signing Arenas and Jamison after this season and use the resulting $14 million in salary cap room to try to sign Elton Brand, Shawn Marion or Josh Smith. "The Wizards are obviously a more talented team with Arenas," Mannix concludes, "but thus far they've shown t...   [read the full post]

By David Friedman Gilbert Arenas is an All-Star, he has a popular blog and he is a fun-loving player who is a fan favorite. He is also the most overrated All-Star in the NBA. Note carefully how that sentence was phrased; I'm not saying that he is a bad player or even that he does not have All-Star level talent--but last season this guy was pumped up by the adoring media (including NBA.com, USA Today and the Washington Post, among others) as a top MVP candidate. The Wizards had the best record in the East for about a minute and a half while Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago and Toronto worked through various issues but most people seem to forget that the Wizards had already fallen to 39-34 before Arenas and Caron Butler suffered season-ending injuries. As strange as it may so...   [read the full post]

By Lang Whitaker But they didn’t. Instead, the PA announcer leaned into the mic and bellowed, “From North…Carolina…at guard…6-6…Michael…Jordan!” “So Mike,” I asked, “is this the only restaurant you own in Chicago now?” “Um, Dad? I’m standing next to Michael Jordan right now.”

By ManchvegasBob The first game of the season was in full view Friday night against the Washington Wizards – a sell-out crowd, ESPN coverage on national television, and the suspense of the new threesome on the Celtics. The drama was heightened by none other than Agent Zero, a.k.a. the blogger and all-star guar...

Wizards Hit With Painful Spell  CT - Caron Butler likened the Wizards' double dose of bad luck this past week to being snake bitten. Washington figured to be a threat to go deep in the playoffs ... NBA Notes: Ex-LSU star Thomas giving Bulls reasons to smile Shreveport Times

By Joseph White Gilbert Arenas is essentially done for the season. The Washington Wizards point guard had surgery Thursday for a left knee injury that will sideline him for two to three months.

Gilbert Arenas scored 30 of his 43 points in the first half, and the Washington Wizards blew a 17-point fourth-quarter lead and survived a video review at the buzzer to beat the Sacramento Kings 109-106 Thursday night. With 0.7 seconds remaining, John Salmons took a long inbounds pass and m...

 DC - Jan 20, 2007 Wizards coach Eddie Jordan, who said he would be happy to change his plans if Washington has the East's best record through Feb. 4. If that were to happen, ... Douglas Pils: Week in review/preview San Antonio Express all 2 news articles

By mikediamond06@aol.com Al Koken has served in a number of major broadcast roles for the Washington Capitals, Washington Wizards, Baltimore Orioles, and CAA basketball. Currently, he is the co-host of the award winning "John Thompson Show" on WTEM, and the host of "BallHogs," a popular Redskins talk show. NHL Dr...