Posts tagged ‘dagger’

From the going-ons of Dinner Bells, Transformers, bidding adieus, and locker room clowin’ on this site, below are your hump day links from the Wizards world wide web in the past week or so.

• As of right now, the Wizards will be paying $6 million in luxury taxes.
  [Wizards Insider]
• Caron Butler grew up with a rapper named ‘Mr. Wicked’ who used to say “NBA” to him every day in the hallways of high school.
  [Hoop Doctors]
• Is Antawn Jamison the next Alex English?
  [The Secret Weapon]
• Is Nick Young a goner?
  [Bullets Forever]
• Ernie Grunfeld went on the radio with some junkies.
  [Krem's Sports Blog]
• ‘How To Make A Dagger’ by Steve Buckhantz.
  [DC Sports Bog]
• What did the Wizards sell for $2.5 million?
  [The Secret Weapon]
• Are the Wizards jogging in place?
  [Stet Sports]
• Andray Blatche has a new nickname: “Summer League”
  [We're Off To See The Willards]
• Tom Hammonds scores 24 points in a game? This has to be some sort of fantasy.
  [Bullets Forever]
• It’s a landslide, the Wizards should go back to wearing Amercia’s colors.
  [Mr. Irrelevant]
• The Wizards radio will be moving from the Danny Snyder controlled WTEM 980 to the CBS controlled 106.7 WJFK — not sure what this means, but it’s probably a good thing.
  [DC Sports Bog]
• “Mission Accomplished” for the Washington Wizards?
  [WashingtonWizardsBlog;  mission accomplished comedy via @matthartwig]

Finally, Brendan Haywood is blogging again … this time bidding farewell to Michael Jackson. He writes:

He came along at a time when African-Americans weren’t accepted in the main stream media and forced society to look at us differently. Without Michael Jackson, there may not have been a Michael Jordan. He, along with guys like Jackie Robinson and Muhammad Ali are true pioneers who broke down racial barriers and allowed young African-American entertainers to be as successful as they are today.

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Just over three minutes left in a close game, Wizards up by one point against an almost equally bad team, the thought crossed my mind….do I hope they lose?

I knew the Clippers and Kings, two of the other top three worst teams in the league, were playing each other last night. It would be “nice” to have better chances in the draft.

But just as quickly as the thought entered my mind, it left. All along, I’ve been against “tanking” or even hoping for more losses just for the possibility of maybe having a better shot at the top pick/Blake Griffin. It just doesn’t seem like good basketball karma, not like it matters with the Curse O’ Les Boulez anyway. But still, we’re talking principles…..principalities.

So eff the lottery it was, I was pulling for my Wizards to win, because that’s what fans do. And a win is what I thought we were getting when Juan Dixon squirmed for a layup with 47 seconds left, putting the Wiz up 96-90.

But nothing ever comes easy. Two straight Raptor threes later, the few of us on the Bullets Forever game thread were screaming for the ghosts of Anthony Parker, Michael Ruffin and Mo Peterson to be exercised.

So Juan Dixon, as the third option, hit an off-balanced fader in the lane with 19 seconds left….he probably traveled….Wiz up two. Game winner? Nope. Jose Calderon was allowed to saunter right down the lane for a lay-up…..splendid. At least the Wiz would get the last shot, one of the Dagger! variety.

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