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Can the Wizards be the new Mavericks?

17 Nov 2009 12:31:06 PST

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...

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Adjusting to offense will take time, but how much?

16 Nov 2009 10:34:19 PST

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...

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NBA Power Rankings: Lakers Back on Top, Suns and Heat Rising Fast

09 Nov 2009 13:12:58 PST

Written 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.

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Hansbrough debuts in Pacers win over Wizards

07 Nov 2009 22:36:45 PST

Written 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...

Original story at MVN .

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Lebron & Shaq crush hapless Wizards

03 Nov 2009 18:33:52 PST

Written 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...

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Game #5, Cavaliers vs Wizards: What 2 Watch 4

03 Nov 2009 15:55:28 PST

Written 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

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Washington Wizards news and blogs - November 23, 2009

23 Nov 2009 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Washington Wizards news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Wizards 108, Cavaliers 91 -- from Wizards Insider
• The Other Side: Cleveland Cavaliers -- from Wizards Insider
• Week Three Power Rankings — 11/17 -- by Amar Panchmatia from MVN
• Week Two Power Rankings — 11/11 -- by Amar Panchmatia from MVN
• Heat 90, Wizards 76 [UPDATED] -- from Wizards Insider
• Haywood left off all-star ballot -- from Wizards Insider
• The Other Side: Miami Heat -- from Wizards Insider
• Wizards G James out 4-5 weeks with hand injury -- from AP
• The Other Side: Phoenix Suns -- from Wizards Insider
• Pacers 102, Wizards 86 -- from Wizards Insider

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Speeding Bullets: Don’t call it a rivalry?

03 Nov 2009 12:46:37 PST

Written 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,...

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Caron Butler Is More Than Happy to Go on the Defensive for the Washington Wizards

02 Oct 2009 21:00:00 PDT

Written 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.

Original story at Washington Post .

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New Wizards Guard Randy Foye Hopes to Be a Hit Closer to Home

25 Sep 2009 21:00:00 PDT

Written 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.

Original story at Washington Post .

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D'Antoni's Knicks on fast track to power - Daily Mail

21 May 2009 21:44:25 PDT

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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Opinion: In brief: Heat roar back to tie series with Hawks

23 Apr 2009 00:28:17 PDT

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. ...

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Game Notes: Indiana vs. Washington

15 Dec 2008 21:22:44 PST

Written 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...

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Podcast: Tuesday Bullets

02 Dec 2008 08:13:06 PST

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...

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BDL's 2008-09 NBA Season Preview: Washington Wizards

14 Oct 2008 13:30:27 PDT

Written 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:

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What Impact Will Gilbert Arenas' Latest Surgery Have on the Wizards?

18 Sep 2008 21:41:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Opinion: Butler Does It: Last Second Shot Staves off Elimination for Wizards

01 May 2008 07:30:00 PDT

Written 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.

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Opinion: Wizards Bounce Back From Embarrassing Loss to Rout Cavs

25 Apr 2008 04:53:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Opinion: Well Done is Better Than Well Said: Cavs Silence Wizards, 93-86

19 Apr 2008 22:32:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Opinion: The Score, the Key Stat, the Bottom Line: Playoff Positioning

13 Apr 2008 02:43:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Wizards Cast Spell Over Celtics

10 Apr 2008 04:51:00 PDT

Written 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...

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Podcast: CARON BUTLER

31 Mar 2008 04:16:39 PDT

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!

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Opinion: NBA Coast to Coast Crew Hands Out First Half Awards

29 Jan 2008 23:50:00 PST

Written 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...

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Podcast: Sonics by the numbers -- Wizards

07 Jan 2008 02:17:02 PST

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...

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Podcast: Links: Meeting Michael Jordan

09 Nov 2007 13:06:22 PST

Written 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.”

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Podcast: Arenas' season over after surgery

06 Apr 2007 00:00:00 PDT

Written 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.

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