FWIW I think having Sharp on staff at grantland will raise the wizards Q rating tremendously. If we start getting on national TV more next season it wont be because of Wall/Beal (Porter/Bennet/KEVIN LOVE). It'll be because Andrew Sharp is fighting the good fight.

Wizards fan perspective on why kawhi leonard's success is infuriating.

Nick Young is being sued for sexual assault by a woman for an incident that occurred in West Hollywood in 2011. Young allegedly bought champagne for the woman and her friend, and then slipped the date rape drug gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid into the beverage because her memory of the evening ended shortly thereafter. Young admitted to the woman the next morning that he had sex with her but then stopped when she passed out. The woman was bleeding from her vagina and rectum. When Young took the woman home, she then went to the UCLA Santa Monica Rape Treatment Center, where she took a rape kit and was tested for STDs. Young is being sued for sexual battery, sexual assault and false imprisonment. Young spent the 12-13 NBA season with the Philadelphia 7ers and will be a free agent this offseason. Via TMZ

I'm out here in St. Louis and we don't get a lot of basketball stuff so it was a pleasant surprise to see John Wall getting some exposure here in Foot Locker's window. Looks pretty good to me.

So... Zach Harper had some interesting things to say about Flip Saunder's press conference in Minnesota. Apparently, after the official Q and A, somebody brought up the Foye/Miller trade in a side discussion and Flip responded by saying that it was a cost-cutting measure. I personally hadn't heard that rationale before (I had always heard it was because they felt they were just a piece or two away from contention and wanted vets), so I thought I'd link it here. If this is right, then does it change how we look at Ernie's legacy at all? Another interesting tidbit - David Kahn supposedly approached the Wiz about a trade for Kevin Love. (?!?!?!) But there aren't any details as to when that happened or what he was looking for. The discussion of the foye/miller trade is at around the 23:00 mark of the podcast, the kevin love suggestion is at the 8:00 mark.

My thoughts on Jason Collins' announcement.