the kids love public transit

Makes sense. It’s a relatively big market that is starving for any sort of success. Even a few ECF appearances could stamp someone as the modern day Wizard goat lol. Wall is revered for much less.

These kids seriously love going first overall

They’re also really not fans of Utah seemingly. Can’t imagine why? /s

The children yearn for the seat of government

They got that Charles Barkley mentality when he committed to Auburn.

It wouldn’t be hard to be the 2nd best player in franchise history by like, year 4

Bring back the 2 tone gold and black Wiz jersey. Those are awesome.

It’s the mambo sauce from what my DMV friends tell me

It’s a marvel.

Yeah Ainge does not give a fuck he’s going BPA every time. If AJ goes to Washington, DP is going to Utah.

It’s meaningless to us, because there’s been plenty of times when meetings happened that no one ever knew about…

But on the flip side, DP continues to control access really tightly. It’s not nothing.

not just for that, but if they’re already seriously considering Boozer then it could be a factor 

Did ace Bailey want to go anywhere ?

Pablo Torre bout to find some shit out

Sarr, Ace and now Peterson. Our org has made a complete 180 from when Winger/Dawkins took the reigns in 3 years ago in 2023, we’ll get the respect of the fans soon too

Well it helps when the alternatives are utah and memphis

Wasn’t it the Hawks that Sarr didn’t want to work out or talk to?

Tbh I think lot of the wizards general issues are organizational, and things that could be “fixed” usually the issues with other teams that struggle is that nba players don’t want to live somewhere like Utah

DC is a great place to start your career. It’s a wonderful (liberal area) city with an owner that has no problem paying players. Just overall a lot of opportunities. Im more surprised non-rookies don’t want to go tho I think it’s over blown.

Yall Got Freaks In The DMV🤣🤣🤣

Wizards are one of the worst teams in the league so young players who go there will get more playing time. Maybe less true next year but certainly very true in the past few years. Even lower drafted prospects like Bub Carrington and Will Riley were getting playing time. Contrast that to my Hawks who had Asa Newell picked right after Riley by 2 spots but got no playing time. Even Risacher who was the first overall pick got no playing time in the playoffs. Yes he hasn’t been that good but he certainly would have gotten all the playing time in the world with the Wizards to develop and play through mistakes. It’s a dream for any young player to play with a bad team. Harper would have contended for ROY with the Wizards this past season. 

Bro these are young black kids. Yes they’re going to want to go to chocolate city while being young millionaires. Being a young black dude in DC is lit even when you’re poor when Howard homecoming comes around

Apparently we’ve got some VIP-level training facilities, including masseuses and on-site Chick-fil-A in the player’s lounge.

If you’re a a young black multi millionaire, there’s no better city in the country to be in than DC. Of course they want to go there, especially when the alternative is poor ass Memphis and white ass Utah

It was more not wanting to go to Utah than wanting to go to DCin 2/3rds of those. it’s a creepy white cult-run city.

Utah is kinda hell

Aside from the wizards not being a serious franchise DC is probably one of the better nba cities to go to

I mean if they’re taking DP the wizards didn’t want him anyway

I mean if the Jazz have the opportunity to pick him then he’s not going to the Wizards anyway. And he’s also not working out with anyone after the Jazz either.

Maybe he never made the 45 mile drive from Provo to Salt Lake to see Salt Lake during the time he was in college.

The entire shift from DP being #1 to AJ being #1 has been a gaslighting sham by betting markets and the media/mock drafters. Partially for betting purposes and partially to send a message that players can’t make a mockery of their required year of college like DP did.

DP was #1 ALL regular season start to finish with all the cramping and load managing and stuff. Then AJ has 2 monster games in the conference tournament against terrible K-State and West Virginia and the narrative becomes he’s the overwhelming favorite. It’s never made sense.

Ask yourself this, can you name a single player in NBA history whose career was derailed by cramping in any significant way?

lol

Post your betting slip

Books don’t make money on draft markets

It means he (or his dad/camp) wants him to go to DC and not Utah, same as Bailey last year. If you guys picked him I’m sure he’ll sign that rookie contract and get over it..

The only info I’m getting from this is confirmation that the two players the teams is picking between are AJ and DP. All reports from beat reporters and those citing sources from within the team is that they haven’t made a decision, but that they had seen two players separating from the rest.

I can see Utah going with Boozer, trading Markanen, resigning both Kessler and Nurkic

Weird that the draft would revolve around the first pick. I’m surprised it doesn’t revolve around the 15th pick tbh

The Wizards also met with Cameron Boozer. It just wasn’t reported in this post but it’s been well reported too. As the team with the first pick, you should meet with all the top prospects who you consider to be of similar tier. After all, you could always do what the Celtics did and move back to 3 to get Tatum even so it isn’t like they have to always keep the first pick if they don’t like their choices. 

How does it benefit Peterson to take the meeting? 

I really think it’s just their way of controlling who sees the medicals

This reminds me of Kyler Murray in the NFL. A ton of friction with communicating and treats the organization as an enemy while being a great player/prospect. I don’t see anything to suggest he’s a not great teammate though.

I feel like you can’t have high levels of success with this type of relationship towards the franchise though no matter how talented you are. Too much noise that has nothing to do with the actual production on the court/field. It needs to be a more collaborative effort because you’ll lose a lot of leadership credibility.

DP is going to be a Wizard. He is clearly the most talented player in the draft and all reports suggest teams are pleased with his medicals. And as another commenter pointed out, any team that requests his medicals will get them.

based on what?

Nah, both him and AJ will be top 10 players

Or it’s like Sarr trying to force his way to another team a la the Hawks picking first overall

Not how that works.