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Wizards rank 22nd in ESPN Insider's Future Rankings

The ranking comes from a combination of the rankings of the players (25th), management (27th), money (6th), the market (21st) and future draft picks (4th). More lovely news coming off the Rising Stars selections today.

3 days ago Jake Whitacre 9 comments

Trade John Wall for Jeremy Lin

Because you may Ball with Wall.

3 days ago Ball with Wall 29 comments

Trevor Booker’s Monster Slam on Aaron Gray and the Raptors

4 days ago Wizfan301 0 comments

Drummond thinking about returning for Soph. Year

DA DUM DUM!!! One more top prospect is deciding to take the "Tracee Hamilton" route and return for a second year of college. Let's hope this doesn't start a "return to school" movement like last year wrecking the draft class and the Wizard's rebuild.

5 days ago Ron Carlos Jeines 3 comments

Sources close to the situation say that the Wizards had been trying to engage Charlotte on a Blatche-for-Tyrus Thomas swap.

The Wizards would naturally prefer Boris Diaw and his expiring contract -- with the bonus of knowing that Diaw's passing eye could only give the wild Wiz a much-needed boost to their basketball IQ -- but the ever-thrifty Bobcats aren't about to take on the remaining three years (worth nearly $23 million) on Blatche's contract if Thomas' similarly hefty deal isn't headed the other way.

via Marc Stein

8 days ago Jake Whitacre 20 comments

ESPN Lottery Machine

The ESPN Lottery Machine just came out

9 days ago Llamaman 11 comments

How Basketball-Reference Got Every Box Score

"A few years ago, someone had pointed us in the direction of this guy named Dick Pfander, who lives in Michigan," Kubatko said. "They said, ‘You’ve got to get in touch with him. He’s undertaking a personal project going through old microfilm and making scans of every box score in NBA history.’ Of course, we were intrigued by that."

10 days ago djnnnou 0 comments

Andray Blatche is the worst player in the league

Pretty good explanation

10 days ago henry.emerson 10 comments 2 recs

"Now, if we criticize John Wall for not making the right play, he’s not going to backlash and retract and shut down for three plays, because he knows that we care about him. Because we spent that time, and invested it off the court."

Mo Evans, spoke of progress made at a team dinner 10 days into the season.

12 days ago DavidDunn 8 comments

Chuck and Shaq rag on the Wizards some more

Barkley always hates the Wizards, but this is our national perception. Nobody mentioned how well we're "following the plan," in case you're wondering.

14 days ago Unselds 3 comments