Washington Wizards

The Washington Wizards just announced their summer league invitees, which will include Dominic McGuire, Nick Young, JaVale McGee and Javaris Crittenton, some other notable undrafted players and a (sort of) familiar face. Andray Blatche said at the end of the season that he wasn't goin...

The NBA free agent negotiation period begins at midnight but the Washington Wizards aren't expected to be much of a player from the outset. As Coach Flip Saunders said last week at the news conference to introduce Randy Foye and Mike Miller, the Wizards will add the equivalent of five free a...

When the week began, I was expecting that today would be a wild, frenzied day for the Washington Wizards, with trade rumors swirling round, getting knocked down and going back around. But teams around the league couldn't wait until then to make major moves, with San Antonio making a roster...

By Michael Lee The Washington Wizards hold the fifth pick in Thursday's NBA draft and President Ernie Grunfeld has spoken openly about his willingness to move the selection, opening the door for numerous inquiries and trade discussions in the past few weeks.

By Michael Lee Three of the top point guards in an NBA draft stocked full of them were in town, and the Washington Wizards wanted to push prospects Stephen Curry, Jonny Flynn and Brandon Jennings to the limit as they auditioned for the No. 5 pick during an hour-long workout yesterday.

By Jeff Nelson With the NBA draft less than two weeks away and rumors flying about whether the Washington Wizards will keep or deal the fifth pick, the past three days at Verizon Center have featured pre-draft workouts for a wide spectrum of players, the majority of whom are not considered lottery selec...

In the middle of his plea to Philadelphia 76ers fans that the decision to hire former Washington Wizards coach Eddie Jordan was indeed a good one, he inserted his opinion on current Wizards' guard, Gilbert Arenas: "Gilbert Arenas is the worse person on earth.

SECAUCUS, N.J., May 19 -- A worst-case scenario season yielded a worse-case scenario result for the Washington Wizards at the NBA draft lottery, as the team that could choose no lower than fifth landed the No. 5 pick in the June draft. Hoping for a potential franchise building block to add to a t...

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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Since he was dismissed as coach of the Washington Wizards in November, Eddie Jordan's daily schedule involved three things: Dropping off his children, Jackson and Skylar, at the bus stop in the morning; picking them up from the bus stop in the afternoon and watching NBA basketball on tel...

 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. ...

By Michael Lee As one of the Washington Wizards' worst regular seasons in franchise history slogs to a close, all signs are pointing to Flip Saunders being named the team's head coach as early as next week.

That's when things got wacky. The Wizards turned over the ball twice, Antawn Jamison missed a free throw and the Bobcats were presented a golden opportunity to force overtime with 6.5 seconds remaining after Wizards forward Dominic McGuire unwisely fouled Gerald Wallace as Wallace rose...

A 109-93 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks at Bradley Center on Saturday night had all of the usual elements that have been on display during this long and torturous season: a poor start, weak defense, spotty shooting, too many turnovers and the inability to sustain any kind of run.

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 Shaun Ahmad The rest of the January schedule isn’t very forgiving.  After the home contest against Cleveland, the Wizards travel to an emerging contender Orlando Magic squad followed by a quick turnaround hosting the Chicago Bulls the next night.  

Caron Butler scored 19 points for the last-place Wizards, who matched their franchise's slowest start, dropping to 4-16 for the first time since the 1966-67 Baltimore Bullets. Washington, though, actually led 12-11 about 4 1/2 minutes in, on a 9-foot floater by Antawn Jamison.

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]

I truly don’t know what the Wizards are going to do and to be quite honest, I doubt they know what they are gonna do either. There are a lot of moving pieces in this organization right now; such as offers for Arenas or Jamison that the Wiz might have to match (none yet), what to do with Roger Mason...

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 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 Technically, this is the third year in a row that the Wizards and Cavs have met in the first round. In 2006, LeBron reminded us that he could do no wrong, even as he tackled the playoffs for the first time. But Gilbert Arenas refused to back down, matching James's iron-wrought majesty with fier...

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...

By David Friedman On Wednesday, injured stars Gilbert Arenas, Pau Gasol and Dirk Nowitzki returned to action. The Wizards went 3-5 with Arenas at the start of the season and he had been out of action since then because of a balky knee. When the Wizards went 9-5 in their first 14 games this season sans Arenas, I asked, "Is Gilbert Arenas the Most Overrated All-Star in the NBA?" The premise behind that question is that Arenas was touted in some quarters as an MVP candidate midway through the 2006-07 season yet his team, to put it charitably, did not seem worse without him in those 14 games; in fact, their record improved the second that he exited the lineup, but I gave Arenas some benefit of the doubt regarding the eight games he played because he clearly was not 100% h...   [read the full post]

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...

Of course, a new season means new hope for the Redskins -- and every other team in the league. Another year similar to three of the last four in which the Redskins had six or fewer wins could get Gibbs run out of town, most likely into another retirement. This one might be a little more forced than...

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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...