Pre-Game Post
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Pacers, Playoff Game 6–Emails & Vines from the Abyss
►Adam Rubin | May 15, 2014
Some news: PlayoffStatus.com gives the Wizards a 49 percent of winning Game 6 on their home court and a 15 percent chance of winning the series. Meanwhile, the L.A. Clippers,...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Pacers, Playoff Game 5–Pixels & Emails from the Abyss
►John Converse Townsend | May 13, 2014
Bad news: Only 3.7 percent of NBA teams that have gone down 3-1 have come back to win a best-of-seven playoff series. The good news: TAI’s Dan Diamond (@ddiamond) and John...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Pacers, Playoff Game 4–Pixels & Emails from the Abyss
►Rashad Mobley | May 11, 2014
To get ready for a big Game 4, TAI’s Rashad Mobley (@Rashad20) and John Converse Townsend (@JohnCTownsend) exchanged modernized electronic mail about the state of the Washington Wizards and how they...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Pacers, Playoff Game 3–Pixels & Emails from the Abyss
►Adam McGinnis | May 9, 2014
Intro? These emails need no intro, which also means that where we’re going, we don’t need roads. I think. Travel down the pixel lane of communication with Adam McGinnis (@AdamMcGinnis)...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Pacers, Playoff Game 2–Pixels & Emails from the Abyss
►Conor Dirks | May 7, 2014
Game 2. As of this morning, TeamRankings.com, the heady stat heads with real brains for minding their divisions and revisions, gave the Wizards a 60.2 percent chance at taking a series win...
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TAI Roundtable Opening Statements: Wizards vs. Pacers, NBA Playoffs Round 2
►Conor Dirks | May 5, 2014
Round 2 is here. For today’s Game 1 opening statements, we will be holding a TAI 5-on-5 roundtable featuring Conor Dirks, Sean Fagan, Rashad Mobley, Adam Rubin, and Jared Wade, editor...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Bulls, Playoff Game 5–Emails from the Abyss
►John Converse Townsend | Apr 29, 2014
THIS ONE’S FOR ALL THE FIRST-ROUND MARBLES, Y’ALL. Note-a-Bull stats, Jack: In franchise history, the Bulls are 2-6 (.250) in Game 5s when trailing a series 3-1—the two wins came...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs. Bulls, Playoff Game 4–Vines & Emails from the Abyss
►Conor Dirks | Apr 27, 2014
The tectonic plates of the pixel landscape are shifting. The result? Depending on how aggressively one’s knee jerks, somewhere between a 3.0 and an 8.9 on the Richter pixelscale. As nice as...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Bulls, Playoff Game 3–Vines & Emails From The Abyss
►Dan Diamond | Apr 25, 2014
D.C. is rising. In the playoffs, with a 2-0 lead over the Chicago Bulls. On Twitter, where hundreds are using the hashtag. (Watch this space during tonight’s game.) And onto ESPN...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Bulls, Playoff Game 2–Vines & Emails From The Abyss
►Rashad Mobley | Apr 22, 2014
‘They’ say that a playoff series does not start until the road team wins. If that is indeed the case, the Washington Wizards got the series started right away, immediately putting the Bulls...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Bulls, Playoff Game 1–Vines & Emails From The Abyss
►Conor Dirks | Apr 20, 2014
The playoffs are a new season, some say. I say they’re the playoffs, but what do I know? In either case, in honor of the playoffs, and in honor of lines...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Celtics, Game 82
►Kyle Weidie | Apr 16, 2014
Teams: Wizards at Celtics Time: 8:00 p.m. ET Venue: TD Garden, Boston, MA Television: CSN Radio: WFED-AM 1500/THE FAN-FM 106.7 Spread: Wizards fav’d by 7.5 points Sponsored Ad: Wizards tickets … anyone? Click to get them served...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Heat, Game 81
►Kyle Weidie | Apr 14, 2014
If much of the Wizards season has represented some form of Greek myth (Sisyphus, the Odyssey, maybe a touch of Jason and the Argonauts) then tonight’s game can be likened to...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Bucks, Game 79
►Conor Dirks | Apr 12, 2014
A gift. Two gifts. From the basketball gods? From the random number generator? From the Bobcats and Pacers. As Comcast SportsNet anxiously, and indecently, displayed news of a Kemba Walker injury,...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Magic, Game 79
►Kyle Weidie | Apr 11, 2014
Tonight the Wizards are going for their fifth sweep of a team on the season. Having already beaten the Brooklyn Nets 3-0, the L.A. Lakers 2-0, the New Orleans Pelicans 2-0,...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Bobcats, Game 78
►Kyle Weidie | Apr 9, 2014
Playoff implications? Playoff implications. The Internets are right. This is a very big basketball game tonight between those Wizards and those Bobcats. Playoff implications out the kitty litter box and up the...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Bulls, Game 77
►Rashad Mobley | Apr 5, 2014
As Tom Thibodeau alluded to in his pre-game presser Saturday night, this is an exciting time of year in the NBA–especially in the Eastern Conference. The Heat and the Pacers...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Knicks, Game 76
►John Converse Townsend | Apr 4, 2014
If you’ve looked at the NBA standings recently, you’ve surely noticed a little “x” next to the Washington. That x marks the Wizards’ spot in the 2013-14 playoffs after six long,...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Celtics, Game 75
►Kyle Weidie | Apr 2, 2014
Revenge seems like the one thing that kinda/sorta gets the Wizards’ juices flowing, sometimes. NBA players have good memories (despite what the mannerisms of one Trevor Ariza might have you believe),...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Bobcats, Game 74
►John Converse Townsend | Mar 31, 2014
Postseason implications abound! D.C.’s Wizards will play NC’s Bobcats tonight (and then they meet again next Wednesday). If the Wizards win, they’re guaranteed a ticket to the playoffs for the first time since...
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