We're less than 24 hours from the NCAA Tournament, so this is your reminder to sign up for Bullets Forever's NCAA March Madness bracket pool on Facebook.  Here's the link to the group. 

The winner will receive a free "Big Game James" T-shirt from the Bullets Forever store.  (cues informercial voice) A $16 value, absolutely free!  You'll also receive endless bragging rights on the site, as well as instant credibility as someone who follows the college game, which is big as we enter NBA Draft scouting season.

In case you don't know what that looks like, here's a picture:

 

There's only 24 hours left to join, so sign up today and let the competition for the shirt begin!

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At Bullets Forever, we love NBA action, but that does not preclude us from enjoying some good ol' college hoops every now and then.  As we've done every year, we've opened a group where you can add your brackets and compete against fellow Bullets Forever members.  

This year, we're running the brackets through Facebook, so you can take care of your brackets while managing your Farmville.  You can join the fun here or search for the group "Bullets Forever Bracket Madness".  And if you haven't done so already, you can become a fan of our page on Facebook.

Hopefully all of your upset picks will be as successful as a Mike Miller shot at the buzzer.

Just a heads-up: I'm not going to be around this weekend because I'm moving into a new place and we're not getting our cable and Internet installed until Monday.  I'll post tonight's game thread, but Jake's going to be taking care of everything this weekend.  

Rook's also going to post a prospect profile this weekend for you to chew on.  Until then, I'll see you Monday!

No Wizard embodies the spirit of the new roster better than James Singleton.  Don't believe me?  Let's see how he fits within the team's new identity.

• Young and energetic? Check.  (28 still counts as young, right?)
• Facing a contract year? Check.
• Capable of delivering highlight reel plays for a fan base who had grown accustomed to lifeless basketball over the first-half of the season? Check!
• Short on talent, high on effort? Check plus.

In the days following last month's roster-altering trades, Mike began calling Singleton "Big Game James" after coming up with big play after big play to help the Wizards win their first two games after the roster shuffle.  Sure, the nickname isn't entirely original, but it captures Singleton, and buzz he has helped bring the team quite well.  

To commemorate James Singleton's contributions to the team, we would like to introduce the latest addition to the Bullets Forever store:

You can purchase the shirt here in a variety of blues for $15.99 plus shipping & handling.  We promise if you buy a shirt we won't break into your room and leave your mattress in the shower.

 

The SB Nation Basketball Network is proud to join with the NBA to spread the word about the Hoops for St. Jude Week. This is a great program for a great cause and we encourage you to participate.

Join NBA stars from around the league in celebrating Hoops for St. Jude Week and help fight childhood cancer. NBA stars including Pau Gasol, Rudy Gay, Shane Battier, Danny Granger, Steve Blake, Kevin Love and Coach George Karl have teamed up for Hoops for St. Jude by donating $20,000 to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.

You can support Hoops for St. Jude Week by making a donation to St. Jude or by bidding for hope on items during the eBay auction at www.hoopsforstjude.org. LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Shaquille O'Neal, Steve Nash, Dwight Howard, Dwyane Wade and others have each donated an autographed team jersey. Don't miss your opportunity to own a piece of NBA history while helping a child with cancer.

Hoops for St. Jude Week - turnings hoops into hope for the patients of St. Jude.

For more information, visit www.hoopsforstjude.org.

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Last weekend, I mentioned the winner of the Bullets Forever All-Star Weekend Contest was going to win a T-Shirt.  Now, we're finally ready to unveil the shirt to the public.  

Since this site started back in 2006, injuries have been one of the most discussed topics here, so it's only fitting that injuries are incorporated into the design of the site's first shirt.  You can check the shirt out for yourself after the jump.

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Sure, the odds of seeing one of the Wizards in this year's All-Star festivities is about as high as the chances of getting Magic and Isiah to pose for another photo like the one you see to your left.  However, that doesn't mean activity is going to grind to a halt here at Bullets Forever.  

Say what you want about the quality of play during the All-Star Game, but All-Star Weekend is still an opportunity to see the best players in the world show off their skills and create lasting memories.  In addition to open threads for all three nights of All-Star Weekend, we're going to have a contest to give you some rooting interests for this weekend's festivities and give you a chance to win a prize if you make the most correct picks.

You can make your picks right here.  Just fill our your SB Nation username and who you think will come out on top in the Rookie-Sophomore challenge, the Slam Dunk-In, H.O.R.S.E., the Shooting Stars competition, the skills competition, the 3-Point contest, the Slam Dunk contest, and the All-Star Game as well as the MVP for the Rookie-Sophomore Challenge and the All-Star Game.  

If you pick the most winners this weekend, you will win a fabulous prize from Bullets Forever prize closet.  We can't say what the prize will be just yet, but we can tell you a couple of things about what the winner will receive:

1. It will be made of fabric.
2. It will have the Bullets Forever URL on it somewhere.
3. It will be the first item for sale in the new Bullets Forever store, which will be debuting soon.

So go ahead and sign up, you have until 7:30 p.m. eastern time to get your picks in for this weekend's contest.  Hopefully your picks will be as accurate as Hubert Davis' three pointers

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I really hate posts about myself, since you're here to talk Wizards and I don't want to put myself too much in the way of that.  However, between all the news this season, the new SBNation.com gig and all of that, I'm pretty wiped out.  

So, with the Wizards taking a break for All-Star Weekend, I'm also going to take a couple days off.  I'm going to visit my girlfriend in New York, and I'll be back Monday night.  If something major happens, i.e. a trade, I'll probably pop in, but Jake's going to be managing content in the meantime.  

(If you're wondering whether that means I'm missing the All-Star Weekend festivities, not a chance.  I'll probably catch them on delay).  

Jake's got some pretty cool things planned for the weekend, so don't go away.  We also have a couple site things that we're hoping to roll out this weekend.  There's also the FanPosts and FanShot sections, and I'm sure Jake will be promoting relevant content as usual.

Enjoy the festivities, and I'll see you all Monday.