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Gilbert Arenas Trade: Wizards Reaction

WASHINGTON -- Nick Young and assistant coach Sam Cassell were joking around after the media pack finished asking the Wizards' new starting shooting guard about the trade that sent Gilbert Arenas to Orlando in exchange for forward Rashard Lewis. The pair playfully wondered who was going to break down and cry first from...

Wizards Trade Is About Them, Not You

It's now been a full four days since the Bulls traded Kirk Hinrich and the 17th pick to the Wizards for a future second-rounder. With that, Chicago cleared enough cap space to sign LeBron James and another max player. That makes them the putative front-runner in the Bron-stakes, except for maybe the Heat's dream of, as Tom...

Wizards Call for Wall, and DC Finally Celebrates

WASHINGTON -- The balloons cascaded from the ceiling and the confetti shot into the air at precisely 7:37 p.m. ET Thursday night, the moment commissioner David Stern appeared on the projection screens and monitors from New York and made the announcement: John Wall was the first pick of the NBA Draft by the Wizards. It was...

Fortune Finally Smiles on the Wizards

SECAUCUS, N.J. -- For a team that hadn't much luck this past season, it wasn't surprising Washington Wizards general manager Ernie Grunfeld reflexively reacted in disbelief when his team won the NBA Draft Lottery on Tuesday. "No!" Grunfeld blurted after Jamin Dershowitz, an attorney with the NBA, announced that the...

Wizards Still Face Luxury Tax Bill

Saturday's big trade with Dallas certainly cleared quite a bit salary off Washington's books going forward. It didn't, however, get the Wizards under the luxury tax this season. The trade sending Caron Butler, Brendan Haywood and DeShawn Stevenson to the Mavericks for Josh Howard, Drew Gooden, Quinton Ross and James...

Ernie Grunfeld News From the Web

05/14/12 Washington Wizards: 4 Reasons Wizards Can Keep John... Source: Bleacher Report With the NBA draft coming up, general manager Ernie Grunfeld needs to make this his best draft yet.
05/12/12 Washington Wizards: Re-Signing Ernie Grunfeld Has... Source: Bleacher Report The Washington Wizards have been a lackluster franchise for much of the last 20 years, even if you factor in Michael Jordan's brief return to the floor.
04/25/12 Elfin: Grunfeld Is One Of The Most Tenured In D.C.... Source: WNEW The not-quite-as-woeful Wizards, winners of four straight and six of their last eight, conclude a fourth straight dreadful season with their road finale tonight at Cleveland before a home game with Miami tomorrow.
04/25/12 Bucks play final home game of season tonight Source: Pierce County Herald - Ellsworth WI The Milwaukee Bucks will play their final home game of the season tonight against Philadelphia.
04/24/12 Post Sports Live: Caps Game 7, The pressure on RGIII... Source: D.C. Sports Bog LaVar Arrington , Dan Steinberg and Jason Reid joined Jonathan Forsythe on this week's webcast to debate whether either team has the advantage in the Caps-Bruins Game 7.