[Pierce showing his bounciness, flexibility in unique pre-Draft workout. Courtesy SI Vault.]
When the Wizards have the 10th pick in the NBA Draft, we get a player like … Jarvis Hayes.
The Celtics? They get an All-Star like Joe Johnson—or even better, a future Hall of Famer like Paul Pierce.
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[a basketball hoop somewhere in Washington, D.C. - K. Weidie]
Excuse the comparison to the men’s game and think of the following more as context to what the Washington Mystics have accomplished this season. Through their run, a prevailing storyline has been about someone who hasn’t played at all, all-star Alana Beard. No one expected Washington to do anything after Beard had season-ending surgery on an injured left ankle tendon in April. Instead, the Mystics finished as the first overall seed in the East.
Unfortunately for the growing Mystics fan base, their team lost its opening playoff game against the Atlanta Dream in D.C. on Wednesday night. They’ve long moved past the ‘what if we had Alana’ stage, but for context, perspective, and for the hell of it, let’s find the NBA equivalent of Beard’s statistical production for a better idea of her impact, or lack thereof.
I chose three advanced stat categories to put in the Basketball-Reference.com historical NBA database (and please excuse the refresher course via the Basketball-Reference glossary): Read more »
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