[Robbins] Anthony Davis still wants to hear what the Wizards’ front office is planning to do to improve the team for the 2026-27 season. Davis wants to speak to the Wizards GM over the next few months to make a concrete plan to compete for a championship either next season or the 2027-28 season.
For months, we have known that the 2026 offseason will be critical for the Washington Wizards. The keys include the upcoming draft lottery, the draft, individual improvements the team’s young nucleus must continue to make, potential roster moves and the possibility of a coaching change.
Now, add another priority to the list: making Anthony Davis feel more confident about the Wizards’ competitiveness in the short term and, perhaps, resolve any concerns he might have about his contract situation.
Davis reiterated Monday that he wants to have in-depth conversations with Monumental Basketball president Michael Winger and Wizards general manager Will Dawkins over the next few months to learn whether team officials have a concrete plan to compete for a championship either next season or during the 2027-28 season.
“I’ve been in this league a long time, and I’ve been with losing teams, been on losing teams,” Davis said Monday. “It’s very hard to be a losing team and then a championship contender, right? I think one team has only done it: Boston in ’08. The only team, right? Even when I was in New Orleans and we had two losing seasons, then we made the playoffs our third year — that, within itself, is a huge jump: showing that you want to be on a path to winning.
“And that’s what it takes. So, if something comes out of the conversation where that’s the path — and, obviously, you won’t know until the season starts — that’s what I would like to see. What is our plan for winning going into next season? And how? Not like this is a plan, but how do we execute that? And based on that, we’ll kind of see what happens.”
The phrase “see what happens” is where Davis’ comments got most interesting.
Did he mean he would ask for a trade?
Davis stopped well short of saying that.