scott brooks

The Washington Wizards are playing their worst basketball of the 2017-18 season and at the worst time. Losers of eight of their last 10 games, they have fallen from 4th place in the eastern conference to 8th over the past month and look to have plenty of issues on and off the court. One of [...]

Get ready for a different spin on LaVar Ball’s outspoken demeanor. Plenty of people have criticized his bravado—particularly his serial sentiments on how his son, Los Angeles Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball, is already a star and already better than incumbent superstars such as Stephen Curry. Washington Wizards head coach Scott Brooks is not one of [...]

Shoutout to Washington Wizards head coach Scott Brooks for wanting Bradley Beal to shoot all the three-pointers. Yes, this is apparently a thing. Beal revealed on BradleyBeal.net that his head honcho has basically encouraged him to launch 20 treys in single game: He’s really encouraging, too. We played against Cleveland back in early February and lost [...]

Marcin Gortat is sorry—or at least that’s what he told his Washington Wizards teammates at the behest of head coach Scott Brooks. From The Washington Post‘s Ava Wallace: After Gortat proclaimed the team’s reserves “one of the worst benches in the league right now” following Washington’s seventh loss in nine games Saturday against Chicago, Brooks [...]

Washington Wizards head coach Scott Brooks isn’t shy about his expectations for Bradley Beal and John Wall. He believes they can be the best damn backcourt in the league, period. Sort of. During an interview with The Vertical’s Chris Mannix (h/t Bleacher Report), Scott Brooks offered up the following on his backcourt duo: “I think [...]

It wasn’t long ago that Scott Brooks was being criticized for his uninventive offensive sets with the Oklahoma City Thunder. Now he’s wrapped up a brief, yet poignant tenure as one of the NBA’s top head coaching candidates. Taking one year off sure changes a lot, doesn’t it? In Brooks’ case, absolutely. He was always [...]

News came down Thursday afternoon that the Washington Wizards have officially hired their top candidate to fill their head coaching vacancy, Scott Brooks. [tweet https://twitter.com/WojVerticalNBA/status/723266137807552513] Brooks signed a five-year, $35 million contract with the Wizards. Scott Brooks was 338-207 in 7 seasons coaching the Oklahoma City Thunder, including three trips to the western conference finals [...]

Kenny Atkinson is in Brooklyn. Tom Thibodeau is in Minnesota. Scott Brooks is in Washington…if he wants to be. With other teams scooping up available coaching candidates like crazy, the Wizards have apparently offered Brooks their head coaching gig, according to The Vertical’s Adrian Wojnarowski: Washington Wizards general manager Ernie Grunfeld met with Scott Brooks [...]

Kevin Durant is going to make damn sure Scott Brooks doesn’t remain unemployed for long, even if he doesn’t know he’s doing it. Like Durant, Brooks is a free agent of sorts. He is expected to be among the hottest coaching commodities this summer, just as Durant begins his own open-market tour. And if you [...]

Immediately following the Washington Wizards’ season-ending victory over the Atlanta Hawks on Wednesday night, head coach Randy Wittman was shown the door. Jorge Castillo of The Washington Post was the first with the news: [tweet https://twitter.com/jorgeccastillo/status/720450672869699584] Adrian Wojnarowski of The Vertical then followed up the report with some specific insight into the Wizards coaching search, [...]