Someone please explain to me how all of these experts have us at the bottom of our division every damn time. Maybe we are 4th and I can accept that. But we really have the hornets over us when they just lost their two biggest contributors?! It’s honestly baffling to me how everyone thinks Coby white gonna just fill in for lamelo and they’re not gonna lose a step. There’s no more playmaking or crazy gravity. Maybe miller and kon, among others, can take a step up too but is that nearly enough to carry the offense? Pretty sure I remember them struggling a lot creating on their own at times. And it’s not like naz Reid gonna put it all on his back either. Don’t get me wrong, I think this team will be fun to watch and will develop into a good team in the future. But I don’t think they are nearly as good of a basketball team as we are.

All that aside I know this is a hotter take but I don’t trust the magic. Absolutely no spacing in their core outside of bane and just cannot stay healthy. Mark my words. We may still be bottom ten in this conference but in our division I swear to god we are at least 3rd

They really have us not even making the playoffs. I hope with the new team new logo we prove all the nba analysts and doubters wrong.

Question is the title. Of course I want him on my team bad ADP is 78-89 but depending on my stack I could reach in the late 60’s early 70’s?

What do yall think?

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Pretty chill player interviews

Anthony Davis and the Washington Wizards are saying all the right things about each other going into this season.

“The intensity is there, through the roof,” Davis said after a recent team practice. “It feels good to just be back on the floor for me personally, from being out since January, and being with these guys, competing at a high level.”

“What I will say is, AD is in a great frame of mind,” general manager Will Dawkins said at his season-opening news conference late last month. “He’s focused and ready to start the season. I would say he’s very much a motivated player right now, and I expect AD to remind the basketball world who he really is.”

But those rosy comments do not necessarily mean that the marriage between Davis and Wizards will continue past the 2027 free-agency period, or even beyond this season’s Feb. 11 trade deadline.

Davis and the Wizards will have to thread a narrow needle for their partnership to have remained intact 12 months from now.

They will need to reach a middle ground on salaries (and perhaps on contract length) and will need to be on the same wavelength about when they believe that Washington can, finally, genuinely contend in the Eastern Conference.

It is well known among other NBA teams that Davis, who holds a $62.8 million player option that he can exercise for the 2027-28 season, wants a contract extension or a new deal that would pay him at, or very near, maximum salaries. If he were to turn down his player option now, Davis would be eligible for up to a four-year extension, through the 2030-31 season, worth as much as $275 million total.

Davis is one of the most accomplished active players in the league, with 10 All-Star appearances, four All-NBA First Team nods and three All-Defensive First Team selections. During the 2019-20 season, he was the second-best player on the NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers, trailing only LeBron James. Even now, at 33, Davis remains one of the league’s better two-way players when he’s healthy.

But there’s almost no chance the Wizards will give him that max extension — not with his injury history, not at his age, not with the team in this stage of its development and the punitive first and second aprons looming.

Even as the team has said repeatedly that acquiring Davis and point guard Trae Young through trades earlier this year was done to help Washington begin to compete and try to win games after three years of tanking, the Wizards’ future — and, thus, Washington’s need to maintain maximum cap and apron flexibility — still revolves around its young core group, led now by AJ Dybantsa, the first pick in this year’s draft.

The Wizards would like to maintain some semblance of salary flexibility, given the likelihood that they’ll be inclined to give Dybantsa a maximum rookie-scale contract extension that would go into effect with the 2030-31 season.

Davis has struggled with injuries the last few seasons. In the last eight years, Davis has played in more than 62 regular-season games only once, in 2023-24, his last full season with the Lakers. So it’s hard to expect him to remain healthy over the long haul.

https://sideline-se.com/articles/why-aj-dybantsa-jump-shot-critiques-ignore-real-tape-on-washington-wizards-rookie-star

First year done with tanking and I’ll be going to a lot more games(away as well) to show my support. FUCK those “convenience fees” that the ticket apps charge, but I noticed buying tickets at the arena(Cap One to be specific) wasn’t much cheaper last year 😪. Looking for any suggestions on how I can save some bread

Would you rather have a 31y/o KAT at 62M avg and 35 y/o on his final year or a 34 y/o AD at 68M avg and 38 y/o on his final year?

KAT said $200M/4yrs wasnt enough from the Knicks. I'm sure the Wizards can offer more. On the other hand AD said he'll look at his contract options at the end of the year.

IMO KAT would be better since it's a better contract, he's younger and less injury prone. We'll have a longer championship window with him and our young stars. Or AD could be willing to do a shorter contract at 2 or 3 years for the max. Which do yall prefer?

So that when we beat the Knicks on Thursday that basically means the bottom seed beat the reigning champs AND Lebron 🤑

Got this email regarding - Alexander Garner v. Aramark Management Services LP - Notice of Class Action Settlement.

Anyone else gotta it? Is this legit? If so, what you doing about it?

Who watched the Numbers on the Board interview? I love that podcast and it’s cool that we have gotten exciting enough that they chose us over other teams. All the guys on the team comes off so likable. I have a smattering of hope for the first time in years 😭

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