Pre-Game Post
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Nuggets, Game 45
►Troy Haliburton | Jan 25, 2015
The Wizards and the Nuggets will both try...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Trail Blazers, Game 44
►Kyle Weidie | Jan 24, 2015
UPDATE: So, it seems that LaMarcus Aldridge is going to hold off on surgery to fix a torn ligament in his left thumb and will play versus the...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Thunder, Game 43
►Kyle Weidie | Jan 21, 2015
We’re here to talk about Kevin Durant. The opponent. The enemy. A pox on all basketball infidels against Wizards nation who covet a human with a celestial aura in a uniform representing the...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs 76ers, Game 42 — Lining Up Washington After 1st Half
►Kyle Weidie | Jan 19, 2015
Half of the season is gone for the Washington Wizards—41 games proving who they are, 41 games left to prove who they want to be. They’re 28-13 (.683), owners of...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Nets, Game 41
►Conor Dirks | Jan 17, 2015
I’m not a fan of pie. Cobbler, apple, cherry: on the tongue of a man with no taste for such things, it’s just sugar and grain. I’m told others enjoy such things....
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Nets, Game 40 — Confessions of a Fan Who Dumped the Wizards
►Kyle Weidie | Jan 16, 2015
Where Brooklyn at? As far as the Wizards are concern, it’s D.C. north. OK, so that’s not entirely true. Washington has only won once in Brooklyn (versus two losses). The Wizards...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Bulls, Game 39
►John Converse Townsend | Jan 14, 2015
“Hate” is a strong word. (I’ll spare you the dictionary.com definition—you know what I’m talking about.) But these two teams HATE each other. Forget last year’s playoffs, where the hatred wasn’t yet...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Spurs, Game 38
►Kyle Weidie | Jan 13, 2015
In all likelihood, the Washington Wizards will have to wait until 2016 to see if they can beat the Spurs in San Antonio for the first time since 1999. Sure, they could meet...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Hawks, Game 37
►Rashad Mobley | Jan 11, 2015
In what was supposed to be their litmus/validity test, and the Wizards went 2-3 against some of the best teams the Western Conference had to offer. The West is viewed as...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Bulls, Game 36
►Bryan Frantz | Jan 9, 2015
Wall from Shootaround. The new-look Wizards (they waived Glen Rice Jr., that counts as new-look, right?) had no trouble in the potential trap game against the actual new-look Knicks on Wednesday...
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Opening Statements: Wizards vs Knicks, Game 35
►Adam Rubin | Jan 7, 2015
Before Washington embarked on its just-concluded five-game road trip, all the talk was about how the brutal stretch of Western Conference opponents would reveal Washington’s true place in the NBA’s hierarchy....
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Pelicans, Game 34
►Kyle Weidie | Jan 5, 2015
Washington will conclude its five-game road trip tonight in New Orleans, also wrapping up the season series against the Pelicans. The Wizards escaped Anthony Davis’ team with a three-point win, 83-80,...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Spurs, Game 33
►Kyle Weidie | Jan 3, 2015
Here we are, again, facing a franchise of the utmost envy. Everyone wants to be the boring old Spurs. Or at least to replicate their consistency, establishment, and institutionalism—the latter...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Thunder, Game 32
►Conor Dirks | Jan 2, 2015
The Washington Wizards ended their best calendar year since becoming the Washington Wizards on a high note – No they didn’t, dude. You can’t revise the Dallas game for the retroactive...
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Opening Statements: Wizards at Rockets, Game 30
►Rashad Mobley | Dec 29, 2014
After consecutive home losses to teams that figure to make the playoffs this year (Phoenix and Chicago), the Washington Wizards rebuilt their confidence by beating two teams who currently don’t figure into...
