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The Bullets Forever Top 20 is FINALIZED

[editor's note, by Pradamaster] Scroll down for new posts on Andray Blatche and Kevin Duckworth. -PM

Lost amongst the Andray Blatche arrest and Juan Carlos Navarro trade was the real Wizards news of the week -- the unveiling of the Bullets Forever Top 20!

We hatched the idea, narrowed down the candidates, and voted on the order.  Now, it's time to get going on this project.

I've decided to unveil the order here instead of just leaving it as a surprise.  The order was determined by all of the people that voted in the last thread.  First-place votes were worth 20 points, second-place 19, and so on.  When we voted on the order, there were 21 candidates for 20 spots, so one person had to go.  That person, unfortunately, was Kevin Porter, who got both the least support in the poll and the fewest points.  Sorry to say, but it looks like Kevin Porter is the 21st best Bullet/Wizard of all time.

Oh well, there will always be 1975. Oh wait.

Here's the order.

  1. Wes Unseld -- BulletsFever78 (for now)
  2. Elvin Hayes -- BulletsFever78
  3. Gilbert Arenas -- JakeTheSnake
  4. Earl Monroe -- Romans12
  5. Phil Chenier -- finkad01
  6. Walt Bellamy
  7. Jeff Malone -- hotplate
  8. Bobby Dandridge -- Yellow55
  9. Moses Malone
  10. Gus Johnson -- LoneWiz54
  11. Bernard King -- jackpitt
  12. Chris Webber -- kdp922
  13. Antawn Jamison -- facedkr
  14. Michael Jordan -- Pradamaster
  15. Juwan Howard -- LoDawg31
  16. Jeff Ruland
  17. Jack Marin
  18. Kevin Loughery
  19. Rod Strickland -- SP Yup
  20. Kevin Grevey

So now it's time to sign up to write the posts.  So far, we have six players taken -- Gilbert, Jeff Malone, MJ, C-Webb, Juwan Howard, and Rod Strickland.  That leaves 14 open spots as of right now.  We're going to do this mostly on a first-come, first-serve basis.  You can definitely sign up for multiple players, but there can't be multiple writers for the same player.  If there are two people who desperately want to write about the same player, priority will be given to the newcomer.  

As far as the writing style, that's totally up to you.  Feel free to use any combination of text, video, anecdotes, pictures, stats, or articles when writing your profile.  As far as putting it on the site, you should either write it as a diary (which I'll promote ASAP) or send it to me at pradam@brandeis.edu.  

We'll be counting down from 20 to 1, starting with Kevin Grevey and ending with Wes Unseld.  For now, use this space to sign up.  As of right now, the six players that are accounted for can probably be described as "modern" Bullets/Wizards (although Jeff Malone is in that swing category), so we're especially looking for people that lived through the 70s-era teams and can lend personal insight into their careers.  As soon as we get more writers, we'll think of a tentative schedule that hopefully takes us right into the beginning of September.

Sound good?  Remember to sign up in the comments section here.

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Never again will we ever say that Antawn Jamison is better than Michael Jordan.

by JakeTheSnake on Aug 5, 2007 1:10 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Now, now
Antawn's been to the playoffs three times with our Wizards. MJ? Well, he drafted Kwame Brown.

by hotplate on Aug 5, 2007 8:17 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

I know, I know
Antawn deserves to be ahead of Jordan, but it still feels funny to say that.  Then again it also feels weird to say "Fuddruckers" so I guess it could be worse.

by JakeTheSnake on Aug 5, 2007 9:14 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Gus Honeycomb Johnson
I seem to be one of the older members of this board and I actually saw Gus play many many times, so I wish to write a small article on one of the most exciting players in NBA history.

by LoneWiz54 on Aug 6, 2007 9:19 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Done
Excellent!
You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on Aug 6, 2007 10:22 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Elvin Ernest Hayes
I will gladly do a writeup on one of the Greatest Washington Bullets of all time.
War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage. ~Dick Motta

by BulletsFever78 on Aug 6, 2007 3:18 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Excellent
Done!
You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on Aug 6, 2007 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

jamison
i will happily take 'tawn

by facekdr on Aug 6, 2007 3:43 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

Done
You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on Aug 6, 2007 3:45 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Bernard
i'll take a shot at Bernard. It's stretching my bullets knowledge since i was only 14 his last year on the team but i'll work it out.

anyone see this yet??  Andray speaks about his incident.

http://news10now.com/content/sports/?ArID=115397&SecID=32

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by jackpitt on Aug 6, 2007 4:07 PM EDT reply actions   0 recs

well...not so fast Dray...
so he denies he was arrested for the solicitation... but Ivan breaks out the police report and court documents...

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/wizardsinsider/2007/08/blatche_update.html#comments

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by jackpitt on Aug 6, 2007 4:34 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Yeah
Although Ivan's not shooting down that report, per se.  'Dre's agent may be right, but until Ivan actually talks to him, he, nor we, actually know.

I personally feel like the Syracuse report is just 'Dre's agent spinning things though.

You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on Aug 6, 2007 4:36 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

I agree
and if what he said to the syracuse TV station isn't true, it really brings to light how immature he might be.
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by jackpitt on Aug 6, 2007 4:39 PM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Done
Excellent.
You know you'll get devoured by Cheaney, Wallace, and Juwan Howard.

by Mike Prada on Aug 7, 2007 11:12 AM EDT up reply actions   0 recs

Westley Sissel "Wes" Unseld
If you have trouble filling this, i would be more than happy to do the write up on Wes in addition to Hayes.
War is the only game in which it doesn't pay to have the home-court advantage. ~Dick Motta

by BulletsFever78 on Aug 7, 2007 11:07 AM EDT reply actions   0 recs

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