wizards 112 nuggets 108
1/18/2013 - Pepsi Center, Denver, CO
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Friday, January 18, 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

The generation of social media we are living in today has bridged many connections between fans and the rest of the sports world, granting access to their favorite teams and athletes. The type of access our daddys would have only dreamed of attaining. So this year, WE are proud to offer Wizards fans a segment that will reveal the week’s top three Wizards-related tweets, Facebook statuses, Instagram uploads, perhaps an AIM away message even. Whether it’s posted by a Wizard or about a Wizard, we’ll be sure to find it, and expose it. Mike Andrews (@mikeandrews89) continues our weekly tradition with his own findings and posts..

Another Friday means another week of the best tweets from around the association. Today, I’m throwing one extra one in there not from the NBA, but totally worthy of this article.

Garrett Temple, who makes a $854,000 salary, was complaining about the rent prices in the DMV. Try doing it on a median salary, Garrett L. But at least he feels comfortable enough to know that he’s going to be around for a while, which is something that all Wizards fans should feel some solace in.

Earlier this week, rumors surfaced that the Wizards entered the Rudy Gay bidding battle, making what was reportedly a “good” offer to Memphis.  Shortly thereafter, The Memphis Commercial Appeal published an article stating that Washington’s offer would have included Wizards rookie Bradley Beal.

Although the rumor of Beal being packaged was quickly extinguished by Beal’s agent, I couldn’t help being reminded of the Bullets and Wizards teams of the last couple decades that would have entered into such a poor deal.

kings 95 wizards 94
1/16/2013 - Sleep Train Arena, Sacramento, CA
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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 really no 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 more than a few unfavorable headlines this season, 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.

The Wizards didn’t fully shape into the team they initially constructed until after the OKC game two Mondays ago, but it’s probably fair to say the dramatic ending of that particular game, courtesy of the league’s top teenager, is what set the tone for where the Wizards stand now: a team on a mean 3-game win streak, set to take on a five-game west coast trip with the most confidence and swag they’ve attained in the Wittman era. It was the perfect segway for John Wall’s Welcome Back Party against Atlanta the following game, and that same momentum helped these reformed Wizards truck over the Orlando Magic on Monday night.

wizards 120 magic 91
1/14/2013 - Verizon Center, Washington, DC
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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
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