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Markieff Morris suffered a sprained ankle in the first half of the Washington Wizards’ Game 1 loss to the Boston Celtics on Sunday. It was not a pretty injury, and Morris thought it was much worse, per NBA.com’s David Aldridge: [tweet https://twitter.com/daldridgetnt/status/858777344370241537] Initial perception won’t stop Morris from playing in Game 2. He wanted to [...]

Ian Mahinmi is injured again, and it doesn’t sound like he’s going to be ready when the Washington Wizards tip off their first-round playoff series with the Atlanta Hawks. From The Washington Post‘s Candace Buckner: On Wednesday, Coach Scott Brooks announced that Ian Mahinmi will miss the team’s regular season finale in Miami, as well as upcoming [...]

Things were a little heated between the Golden State Warriors and Washington Wizards by the end of the former’s 139-115 victory over the latter on Sunday night. With the game wrapped up, Brandon Jennings committed a Flagrant-1 foul on JaVale McGee. He was attempting a three, and Jennings shoved him. Both Jennings and John Wall defended [...]

2017 has been very good to the Washington Wizards. The Wiz have been 30-12 since the new year began, and have undergone a complete transformation from being a huge disappointment rife with chemistry issues that started 2-8, to a 46-28 division-winner and possible No. 1 seed in the eastern conference. [tweet https://twitter.com/WashWizards/status/846947487910957057] Pretty incredible this [...]

Acquiring DeMarcus Cousins hasn’t exactly guaranteed the Pelicans a playoff spot in the West. There are still some teams ahead of them for 8th in the West. That’s a lot to ask for with less than a month remaining in the regular season. It makes you wonder whether or not he’ll want to remain in [...]

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 [...]

Amidst all the daily happenings of the hustle and bustle that is the business of the NBA, there are some amazing acts of kindness made by teams, players and organizations every day that go unnoticed. The Washington Wizards did something pretty awesome before their game with the Orlando Magic Sunday afternoon, they introduced 13-year-old Niyear [...]

The Washington Wizards had a whatever trade deadline. They dealt a first-round pick to the Brooklyn Nets in exchange for dumping Andrew Nicholson’s salary and acquiring Bojan Bogdanovic, a dude who can hit threes, doesn’t play great defense and will leave as a restricted free agent this summer. Blah, right? Even when you spin it in [...]

The Washington Wizards plan to re-sign soon-to-be restricted free agent Otto Porter no matter what, which suggests they’re smart. Porter is going to command max money on the semi-open market. Washington has the right to match, but its desire to do so was initially questioned, according to the Sporting News’ Sean Deveney. It’s now been put to [...]

The scorching Washington Wizards made a deal to bolster their bench and add some much needed shooting and depth by adding now former Brooklyn Net sharp shooter Bojan Bogdanovic. [tweet https://twitter.com/TheVertical/status/834515551938568195] This is a great deal for Washington for a number of reasons. They not only picked up a player who is averaging 14.2 points [...]