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Quote of the Week: Steve Buckhantz
“He’s a smart guy, he knows how to play the game. If he had the body of a . . . Kwame Brown, he’d be an All-Star. And he makes the most with what he has.” -Steve Buckhantz on Darius Songaila Watching...
View ArticleWizards Trade React Quotes Part II
The dust from yesterday’s trade has somewhat settled, but the building is still under construction. So after my initial thoughts, the first set of web reactions, and Brendan Haywood’s musings, it’s...
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Unheard and Unseen Cuts from Wizards Media Day
Last Monday’s Washington Wizards media day seems like such a long time ago. In addition to me being there, blogging about DeShawn Stevenson’s new tats, the musings of Gilbert Arenas, and the...
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Brendan Haywood’s Blog in the Blogs, Again.
{flickr/Keith Allison} I saw it coming. Most probably did. In August, Brendan Haywood understandably and predictably caught some heat when he associated (via his blog and a subsequent radio interview)...
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Mike Miller Finally Picks His Spot: Wizards Beat Knicks In Quotes & Notes
Mike Miller doesn’t want to be your team’s leading scorer. And he doesn’t want to listen to others who have implored him to be more aggressive on offense, including his coach. This season, almost as...
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LINKS: Quick! Find someone, anyone, who has an opinion about John Wall.
Or maybe you can just ask John Wall if he wants to go to Ben’s Chili Bowl. There’s a sign in the famed D.C. haunt that says the only people who eat free are Bill Cosby and the Obama family. Surely an...
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Haters Hate, Trolls Troll: Remember, John Wall Is Just 20-Years Old
Midnight Madness had ended and the Wizards were funneling out the back of the Patriot Center. Al Thornton briefly chatted with family members on his way to the team chartered bus. JaVale McGee and...
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John Wall: ‘Certain guys seem like they don’t have the effort’
Surprise, surprise. Or wait … I should actually say that we saw this coming. Actually, let’s take a step back for a second. John Wall, in his individual effort, will not be affected by the players...
View ArticleDissecting John Wall’s Rookie Quotes
The highlights and good times from John Wall’s rookie year represent the icing on the big ol’ cookie (or cake) that vested hype-machine types gladly diddle themselves to while resting assured on...
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Never Forgetting Kwame Brown; When Charles Oakley Was His Spokesman
Most of us saw where Kobe Bryant took time to rip Kwame Brown during a guest lecture to a college class at the University of California-Santa Barbara the other day, video embedded above and linked...
View ArticleRandy Wittman Wants Jan Vesely To Shoot The Ball, And The TNT Crew Rips On...
Good Day. #1) Throw out this ‘Jan Vesely was the 6th pick, he wouldn’t be picked there in a re-draft’ stuff. You know what? He’s on the team now, and he’s displayed more than enough signs that he will...
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Jan Vesely said WHAT? Czech Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Airwolf Vesely doing an interview with Basketmag. No need denying that Jan Vesely’s Czech language interviews are a treat for me (and hopefully for you, too). He always seems to share lots of golden...
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Pre-Season Jan Vesely: 'I wouldn't trade Washington for New York'
[Ed. Note: With the NBA basketball season just around the corner, TAI's Czech correspondent, Lukas Kuba, provides an update/translation of a recent interview that Jan Vesely gave to sport.ihned.cz....
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Blatche Knows Exactly When He Wants to Talk New Contract: 'after we win the...
Andray Blatche is doing good things in Brooklyn. So good that trolling the Wizards is easy. So good that he knows exactly when he will be ready to talk about a new contract. We’re all too familiar...
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The Wizards Said WHAT? Breaking Through the Ice to Beat the Heat
“We are going to shock the world.” This was the answer Washington season ticket holder and Goodman League head honcho, Miles Rawls, said just moments before tip-off between the Wizards and Heat on...
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Learning Fast So The Game Can Slow Down: A Q&A with Rookie Bradley Beal
By now, most people will agree that Bradley Beal is a keeper—and that isn’t just because his agent, Mark Bartelstein, recently said, “I’m sure lots of teams would like to have Brad, but the Wizards...
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Contextual Grunfeldisms Presented With Little Context
You never know whether Ernie Grunfeld is tactfully maneuvering a press conference or if he’s on autopilot … much like the way he captains his ship. The Wizards team president said a lot during his...
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Randy Wittman Said WHAT?! Highlights from His Courtside Interview with NBA TV
[Randy Wittman coaches up rookie Otto Porter. -- photo: S. Fagan] Well, the Wizards finally won a game in Vegas—and in convincing fashion. In the midst of a first-half surge that saw the Wiz lead by as...
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Half-Smokes: Wizards on Optimus Dime
[Photo via @Joe_Bohnerman]Most people enjoy using nicknames. The engine of #WizardsTwitter runs on them. One of the proudest moments of our Wiz coverage for 2014 was getting Bradley Beal to embrace the...
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Share Bullets: The Wolverine Panda Lives, Optimus Dime Shines
ShareBullets: Links, pixels, bullet points, other stuff … shared. [Credit: Monumental Network] After a disappointing first half in Game 1 on Sunday, Washington stifled Atlanta’s offense to take a 1-0...
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