Bullets Forever: FanShots

Wizards rank 22nd in ESPN Insider's Future Rankings

2012-02-08T21:11:43Z

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.

Trade John Wall for Jeremy Lin

2012-02-08T21:09:39Z

Trade John Wall for Jeremy Lin

Because you may Ball with Wall.

Breakdown of Jeremy Lin's game

2012-02-08T20:38:38Z

Breakdown of Jeremy Lin's game

For the basketball aficionados, here's a really good look at the style of the Knicks' newest sensation that'll get plenty of attention with Carmelo Anthony and Amar'e Stoudemire not playing.

For those who just want to know Lin's story, this New York Times piece is very good.

Apologies to all who tried to view the site this morning. We had a network outage that affected...

2012-02-08T18:02:46Z

Apologies to all who tried to view the site this morning. We had a network outage that affected all of SB Nation, and things are just now starting to get back to normal. I can tell you that our tech team was working all morning to fix it, but that's about all I know.

Again, our apologies for the site outage. We should be good to go now.

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

2012-02-07T17:19:50Z

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

Drummond thinking about returning for Soph. Year

2012-02-06T16:49:21Z

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.

Sources close to the situation say that the Wizards had been trying to engage Charlotte on a...

2012-02-03T21:35:11Z

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

ESPN Lottery Machine

2012-02-02T17:19:07Z

ESPN Lottery Machine

The ESPN Lottery Machine just came out