Pre-Game Post

Opening Statements: Wizards vs Pistons, Game 60

►Kyle Weidie | Feb 28, 2015

Teams: Wizards vs Pistons Time: 7:00 p.m. ET Venue: Verizon Center, Washington, District of Columbia Television: CSN Radio: WFED-AM 1500/WTEM-FM 99.1 Spread: Wizards favored by 4 points. What comes after a must-win? Who knows. The Wizards are beyond...
Opening Statements: Wizards at 76ers, Game 59

►Troy Haliburton | Feb 27, 2015

If you’ve never lived by the 3, are you already dead? “Live by the 3, die by the 3″ is a basketball adage that should now be considered as antiquated as...
Opening Statements: Wizards at Timberwolves, Game 58

►Bryan Frantz | Feb 25, 2015

Teams: Wizards at Timberwovles Time: 8:00 p.m. ET Venue: Target Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Television: CSN Radio: WFED-AM 1500/WTEM-FM 99.1 Spread: T’Wolves favored by 1.5 points. Four in a row. Nine of the last 11. Sixteen of the last 27....
Opening Statements: Wizards vs Warriors, Game 57

►Adam Rubin | Feb 24, 2015

So it turns out all those roster holes from the off-season (3-point shooter; bench playmaker; perimeter defender; stretch-4) didn’t disappear during the first half of the campaign. For all the (deserved)...
Opening Statements: Wizards at Pistons, Game 56

►Rashad Mobley | Feb 22, 2015

Teams: Wizards at Pistons Time: 3:30 p.m. ET Venue: The Palace of Auburn Hills, Detroit, MI Television: CSN Radio: WFED-AM 1500/WTEM-FM 99.1 Spread: Wizards favored by 1.5 points. Less than 48 hours after suffering their worst home loss in nearly...
Opening Statements: Wizards vs Cavs, Game 55

►Chris Thompson | Feb 20, 2015

You will be pardoned for suspecting that fate arranged tonight’s Wizards-Cavs tilt at Verizon Center, and not, you know, whoever makes the NBA schedule. You may especially be forgiven for feeling...
Opening Statements: Wizards at Raptors, Game 54

►Conor Dirks | Feb 11, 2015

What a day to be alive. The Wizards play the Raptors for second place in the Eastern Conference tonight, in the last game for both teams before the All-Star Break. Although, Washington’s chances...
Opening Statements: Wizards vs Magic, Game 53

►Troy Haliburton | Feb 9, 2015

The Wizards, for one game, were able to seal the leaks in their sinking ship. They snapped their five game losing streak with a commanding 114-77 win over the Brooklyn Nets on Saturday night, but...
Opening Statements: Wizards vs Nets, Game 52

►Conor Dirks | Feb 7, 2015

Against the backdrop of a five-game losing streak, a holodeck training exercise that was cute at first but has since suffered from a malfunction and now the phasers are set to kill, what...
Opening Statements: Wizards at Hornets, Game 51

►Chris Thompson | Feb 5, 2015

Teams: Wizards at Hornets Time: 7:00 p.m. ET Venue: Time Warner Cable Arena, Charlotte, NC Television: CSN Radio: WFED-AM 1500/WNEW-FM 99.1 Spread: Wizards favored by 2 points. It can be difficult, as a sports fan, to avoid speaking—and...
Opening Statements: Wizards at Hawks, Game 50

►Rashad Mobley | Feb 4, 2015

Teams: Wizards at Hawks Time: 7:30 p.m. ET Venue: Phillips Arena, Atlanta, GA Television: CSN Radio: WFED-AM 1500/WNEW-FM 99.1 Spread: Hawks favored by 5.5 points. When the Wizards lost three consecutive games earlier this season,...
Opening Statements: Wizards vs Hornets, Game 49

►Chris Thompson | Feb 2, 2015

Tonight the Wizards host the Charlotte Hornets at the Verizon Center. There was a while there, after last season’s All-Star break but before the 2014-15 season had done much more than...
Opening Statements: Wizards vs Raptors, Game 48

►John Converse Townsend | Jan 31, 2015

When the Wizards last went head-to-head with the Raptors, in early November when Garrett Temple was still a starter, they got punked. Kyle Lowry did a bit (or a lot) of...
Opening Statements: Wizards at Suns, Game 47

►Troy Haliburton | Jan 28, 2015

Welcome to the wacky world of 2015, where a drunk, off-duty spy ironically highlights our nation’s security flaws by accidentally landing a drone on the White House lawn and where the...
Opening Statements: Wizards at Lakers, Game 46

►John Converse Townsend | Jan 27, 2015

Hey, hey, hey! Whatcha got to say?! Hollywoooooooood … Hollywood swingin’. The Washington Wizards are in Los Angeles tonight. And, well, all those basketball fiends that marked this one on their...