Pre-Game Post

Opening Statements: Wizards vs 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...
Opening Statements: Wizards vs 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...
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...
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...
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,...
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,...
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...
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...
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,...
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),...
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...
Opening Statements: Wizards vs Pacers, Game 72

►Conor Dirks | Mar 28, 2014

While the Indiana Pacers’ recent inability to exhibit that everything is, in fact, alright (alright, alright) has received significant media tonnage, the angst of Washington’s humble crashing, burning and shoulder-shrugging has...
Opening Statements: Wizards vs Suns, Game 71

►Kyle Weidie | Mar 26, 2014

Beating the Suns in Phoenix on January 24 was Washington’s second-best road win of the year (in terms of overall winning percentage of the opponent); the best came four days later...
Opening Statements: Wizards at Lakers, Game 69

►John Converse Townsend | Mar 21, 2014

The Washington Wizards are in Hollywood tonight. But they’ll likely be without the services of Marcin Gortat, who hurt his back warming up before the Trail Blazers game last night. He’s listed as questionable....
Opening Statements: Wizards at Kings, Game 67

►Kyle Weidie | Mar 18, 2014

Last time out… In the District on February 9, a Sunday… I attended the game as a fan, the Wizards, for the most part, appeared to have the contest in hand,...
Opening Statements: Wizards vs Nets, Game 66

►Adam Rubin | Mar 15, 2014

First things first. According to Michael Lee of the Washington Post, the Great Bradley Beal Disaster of March 14, 2014, appears to have been avoided. Beal was carried off the court in dramatic...
Opening Statements: Wizards at Magic, Game 65

►Kyle Weidie | Mar 14, 2014

Each next game is a chance for the Wizards to prove that they’re for real… Or that they are full of sh… hot air. Especially tonight’s game against the third-worst team...
Opening Statements: Wizards vs Bobcats, Game 64

►Conor Dirks | Mar 12, 2014

Both the Washington Wizards and the Charlotte Bobcats are in the midst of the Eastern Conference playoff “chase,” even if each team more closely resembles an imperfect hurdler benefiting from the fact...
Opening Statements: Wizards at Heat, Game 63

►Rashad Mobley | Mar 10, 2014

After a close victory against the lowly Milwaukee Bucks, the Washington Wizards are now on South Beach to take on the Miami Heat. The Wizards have gone 1-5 on the road against...
Opening Statements: Wizards at Bucks, Game 62

►Rashad Mobley | Mar 8, 2014

The Wizards’ have two unique challenges waiting for them in the next two games. Tonight, they are matched up against the NBA’s worst team in the Milwaukee Bucks (12-49 with a...