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Saturday, January 19th, 2013
10:30 PM ET
TV: Comcast SportsNet HD
Steve Buckhantz and Phil Chenier
Radio: 106.7 FM/1500 AM
Dave Johnson and Glenn Consor
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Friday, January 18th, 2013
9:00 PM ET
TV: Comcast SportsNet HD
Steve Buckhantz and Phil Chenier
Radio: 106.7 FM/1500 AM
Dave Johnson and Glenn Consor
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Wednesday, January 16th, 2013
10:00 PM ET
TV: Comcast SportsNet HD
Steve Buckhantz and Phil Chenier
Radio: 106.7 FM/1500 AM
Dave Johnson and Glenn Consor
As has been the case for quite some time now, the Washington Wizards have long been considered the league clowns of the NBA. There’s no real need for clarification as the factors for the team’s prolonged suckassness has been on full display and well documented: slow starts, slow finishes, offensive ineptitude, defensive struggles, lack of talent, poor coaching, managerial mishaps, injuries, Jan Vesely.
It’s fairly evident that the Wizards have been the cause of several unfavorable headlines, covering almost every negative facet of the game. It’s a tolling, testing and trying experience for every Wizards fan and to be quite frank on behalf of all of us: it BLOWS.
But let’s actually fast forward past all the regurgitated rhetoric about how bad the team sucks, or has sucked until this past week.
Let’s actually talk about this past week.
wizards 120 magic 91
1/14/2013 - Verizon Center, Washington, DC
ESPN Boxscore
NBA.com Game Highlights
(Photo courtesy of Wizards Extreme/Joe Glorioso)
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Monday, January 14th, 2013
7:00 PM ET
TV: Comcast SportsNet HD
Steve Buckhantz and Phil Chenier
Radio: 106.7 FM/1500 AM
Dave Johnson and Glenn Consor
It was the night all Wizards fans have been waiting for all season long—the anxious return of John Wall to a team that can be described as catastrophic without him. Management, teammates and coaches all repeatedly said that they think things would turn around as soon as Wall came back from injury; and if last night’s win versus the Hawks is any indication, it seems like they all might surprisingly be correct.
It took a while for Wall to get going after coming into the game in the first quarter to a standing ovation. In fact, he scared the crowd before doing anything else on the court. At one point, he seemed to trip over an Atlanta defender and hit his knee, and immediately the crowd took in a deep breath and collectively sighed until he got up and kept moving. His jump shot is still as less-than-average as it was before the injury, and he didn’t have that spark in the first.
wizards 93 hawks 83
1/12/2013 - Verizon Center, Washington, DC
ESPN Boxscore
NBA.com Game Highlights
(Photo courtesy of NBA.com/Ned Dishman)
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Saturday, January 12th, 2013
7:00 PM ET
TV: Comcast SportsNet HD
Steve Buckhantz and Phil Chenier
Radio: 106.7 FM/1500 AM
Dave Johnson and Glenn Consor
How many Wizards fans miss Eddie Jordan? This Wizards reporter is not afraid to say that he does. Besides the fact he was the head coach here in the Nation's Capital the last time the Wizards were relevant, he brought a style of offense and uptempo play that this franchise hadn't seen in a while. 100+ point games were routine (on both ends of the court), 40-45 win campaigns, and a sold out arena that would cheer on the Wizards, not the Knicks or Cavs.
Even if you didn't actually attend the Ivy League university, Eddie Jordan introduced the DC area to Princeton in a way we never thought we would ever see. The guard heavy and fast paced offensive style of basketball entertained NBA fans to lots of high flying ally-oops, wide open jump shots, and allowed for guys to come in and make an impact immediately. It may not have been the ultimate solution towards bringing a championship to D.C., but it was pretty entertaining to see this team be competitive year in and year out.
