These are just wonderful people and great teammates.

We suck at basketball, for sure, but we suck as a family.

I mean when you have the worst record in the league and have been at the bottom for years, I think thats an accurate assement tbf. He could have said something delusional like hey the Wiz were bad last year but we are going to win it all next year.

Will be interesting to see if he attempts an exit, or if his agent wants to.

At least he’s honest about how ass Wizards are

Sandwich method remains undefeated

I mean, he was set up that way by the host

Mans also setting the bar extra low, need a couple of years. Zero pressure AD from the Pels back to dominate

I mean, anybody with a brain can tell. Saying otherwise would make you a liar and insult the intelligence of the listener

Honestly if I was a Wizards fan, I would appreciate the honesty vs the typical delusional PR response of “nah man we’re good we can totally win it all”. Obviously they want to win but realistically the Wizards are a bad team. In order to fix the problems you gotta at least be able to acknowledge there are problems. Hopefully AD/Trae can stay healthy, AD is a good guy and a great player, just his body hates him.

It’s always like AD only took 80% of the public relations class. Then completely rucked off the rest and partied all through the last 20%. He always almost says the right thing, then slips in something truthful.

There’s never been anything wrong with ADs mindset. Now if only his body cooperated for more than 5 minutes a game.

The people WANT HIM THERE there’s no baggage. It’s a clean slate and fresh chapter for his career. I wish him so much success

Not his fault the NBA colluded with a team again.

He’s 67

He means trade him for pieces to get them there, obviously/s

And in 3 years he’ll still be younger than what KD is now. You know damn well Houston looked at themselves as a contender when they picked KD up.

Has the body of 73 year old tho

So? What does that have to do with his point? You have a counter argument?

He said “time”. Not sure why the OP straight up changed the quote.

So he’s got about 8 years left

him giving an objective analysis on where the Wizards are is borderline comical. Like you are not in a position to dole out wisdom like that. He’s basically saying “i don’t have time to stick around” but no longer has the street cred to take that stance. cmon street clothes.

I’m higher on them than the consensus. I wanted to see the Trae Wemby combo, Trae AD is the next best thing.

I think they can really surprise people if healthy. Trae AD PNR is going to be dynamic. They got some interesting guys like Sarr who can stretch the floor and George who developed kinda into a point forward. I wasn’t super high on Tre going into the draft but he can definitely be a spark plug off the bench, this draft is really gonna be the determining factor on how this rebuild is going to go imo.

It’s not crazy because a lot can change in 2-3 years. Look at where Detroit were 2-3 years ago. The Wizards have pieces to make moves and are among the best in cap space.

Whoever they draft this year will contribute immediately as well

Trae young made it to the eastern conference finals without an AD. If the front office fill in the gaps and they stay healthy they defiantly a contender in the east. Yall acting like the pacers wasn’t just in game 7 of the finals last year.

On paper they’re not a bad team. They need a few seasons to play together. People said the same about Detroit or Orlando and now they’re both fighting hard

I mean it is the east. A few really good FA coming up, and they could definitely get a big 3 going. Maybe Kawhi? Maybe KD? Giannis? Lol if things go right AD might be Nostradamus

They will 100% make the playoffs as lower seed without play-in if eveyone is healthy.

The real problem is pretty much how it’s gonna be hard to bet on AD’s heatlh.

I do feel like they will be a 5-6 seed and people will be surprised.

I think if Trae is fully healthy and AD gets you 60 games the could grab the 6th seed.

They kinda have a legit squad now.

I kind of thought the same about Dallas coming into the season. Davis, Irving, Flagg, Thompson, Gafford, Christie, Washington…felt like it could’ve at least been a solid play in team.

The quote doesn’t make sense without the context of the interviewer looking shocked that AD is saying the org is good. He’s admitting to him that they’re currently a bad team, but not a bad org, as it’s tough to suddenly become a contender.

Might not start at all tbh

Seriously. Imagine what Bron & AD could do if they were on the same team

He absolutely is not too good to be the best player on a young developing team. That is the perfect spot for a guy who is always injured.

He should play for whoever is paying his wages and gave up assets to get him.

that’s my feeling. he did nothing wrong to be stuck in NBA purgatory at this stage of his career.

What did you see from him in Dallas that makes you think that.

Trae I get but AD isn’t on Trae’s level at this point

What a joke

Hes just setting expectations.

Let them know to not expect to be a contender during his contract

I believe there is a chance for the team to vastly improve next season, but the majority think they won’t be good because “Wizards lol”. Personally, I think it’s low hanging fruit to bash a team that’s super young and raw.

I hope they come through and exceed all expectations. Trae wanting to go to the team is a good sign things are changing for them.

Kyshawn, Tre Johnson, and Riley have a lot of potential. Even if the team sucks, they’ve got enough interesting scoring pieces that they’ll sneak up on teams coasting in regular season. Beyond just being better year over year, I think what’s lost on a lot of people is it has the potential to be a pretty fun team to watch, which I’d imagine is a welcome change for fans post Wall

Had me in the first half ngl

That’s wishful thinking…but I do think they’ll be in the mix for a play-in spot. Probably another season or two from making real noise in the East. I think they’ll have a Pistons-like ascension with their regular season record VERY soon. Have some fantastic young pieces.

People don’t understand how great DC is. It’s one of the best cities in the country especially if you’re rich. You get all 4 seasons, every city in the NE just 1-3 hours away and an airport that goes everywhere, every amenity you can ask for, not nearly as many people as NY or LA. It’s so great. I miss living there so much.

Sarr and kyshawn George are promising young players as well.

KD’s new burner spotted out in the wild

I think it’s a punctuation issue with the quote. AD probably meant for on the flip side to be the end of the week are a bad basketball team sentence

Y u actin like that was long ago instead of six years 😂😂😂

That’s on him. If he wasn’t a 30ngame a year guy Dallas would be a legit contender at least on the Lakers level

Well it does. What do you want him to say we’re going to win it next year? There are several superstars over 35 with questionable durability that have been expecting to contend (LAL, HOU, GSW)