Adidas Basketball and Marvel recently announced that they have joined forces to create the limited-edition “Heroes Among Us” collection including five new footwear designs. Basketball players, like Super Heroes, have alter-egos. Just as Super Heroes don masks, players don uniforms, and each athlete represents a different power and skill. These unique powers, once assembled, create [...]
April 18, 2019
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The Washington Wizards have applied to the NBA for an $8.6-million disabled player exception for the loss of point guard John Wall. Wall underwent successful season-ending surgery on his left heel on Tuesday. He is not expected back for at least 6 to 8 months. The league’s disabled player exception allows a team to sign [...]
January 10, 2019
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To say the Washington Wizards are struggling this season would be an understatement. According to ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski, the Washington Wizards are open to trading John Wall or Bradley Beal. The Wizards had hoped to salvage the Wall-Beal backcourt by finding a third star to replace Otto Porter and/or Kelly Oubre, but neither player has [...]
November 19, 2018
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If not for John Wall, Dwight Howard would probably be a member of the Golden State Warriors. Speaking with reporters, the newest member of the Washington Wizards detailed that he was leaning toward joining the reigning champs when the All-Star point guard reached out to him on, of all places, Instagram. From NBC Sports Washington’s [...]
July 31, 2018
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It will be a long off-season for the Washington Wizards. After being on the cusp of the eastern conference finals multiple times in the past few seasons, they took a step back this season finishing as the No. 8 seed in the eastern conference at 43-39 and losing to the Toronto Raptors in 6 games. [...]
April 30, 2018
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For a while it looked like the Wizards were just fine without their All-Star point guard John Wall. They were playing over .500 basketball and competing for home court in the eastern conference first round of the playoffs. Lately they have been in a slump though as they have lost 8 out of 12 games [...]
March 27, 2018
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Ryan Bawek
The eastern conference appears to be more wide open than it has been in a long time this season. The Celtics are dealing with injury issues and have not looked like the team that came out of the gate hot over the last few months, the Raptors are playing the best basketball in the history [...]
March 15, 2018
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Ryan Bawek
Everything is cool between Marcin Gortat and John Wall. Well, almost cool. The Washington Wizards teammates apparently met behind closed doors to discuss the mounting tension between the two that has been unfolding in the public eye recently, according to ESPN.com’s Chris Haynes. Here are the details of the latest development in this sort of [...]
February 14, 2018
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With the Washington Wizards in closer proximity to the Eastern Conference’s ninth-place Detroit Pistons than the second-place Toronto Raptors, it stands to reason John Wall’s six-to-eight-month absence will have them working the phones and dangling their best assets in pursuit of an impact trade. Or, you know, maybe not. Despite losing Wall, the Wizards are [...]
January 31, 2018
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The NBA’s injury hits just keep on coming. Over the past five days alone, the New Orleans Pelicans have lost DeMarcus Cousins for the year; the Oklahoma City Thunder have lost Andre Roberson for the season; the Memphis Grizzlies announced Mike Conley wouldn’t play again in 2017-18; the Charlotte Hornets may have lost Marvin Williams [...]
January 30, 2018
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