15-67 (failed to make the playoffs) 110.2 (25th) 118.9 (28th) Alexandre Sarr, Bub Carrington, Kyshawn George, Jonas Valančiūnas, Malcolm Brogdon, Saddiq Bey Deni Avdija, Tyus Jones, Landry Shamet, Eugene Omoruyi, Jules Bernard, Hamidou Diallo Any mystery about the direction of the Wizards was gone after new team president Michael Winger and new general manager Will Dawkins spent their first months on the job jettisoning Bradley Beal and Kristaps Porziņġis in exchange for veterans on short-term contracts, future draft picks, 19-year-old French lottery ticket Bilal Coulibaly and erstwhile Warrior Jordan Poole.
That direction: down, as cheaply and quickly as possible. Poole endured a and season, replete with look-away lowlights and attempted saucings gone awry. Things went better for Kyle Kuzma, who put up numbers; Avdija, who played career-best all-around ball; and Jones, who remained every ounce the high-floor caretaker as a starter that he was as a backup in Memphis.
And none of that mattered. Like, not even a little bit. Washington sank like a stone, posting its and the — which, when you consider the history of franchise, is saying something.
(A mind-blowing stat from : The Wizards became the first team in the last 39 seasons to go winless in the second game of back-to-backs, losing all 13 of them.) Coach Wes Unseld Jr. took the fall, for a few months before assistant-turned-interim head coach Brian Keefe got the full-time gig — and, with it, a short-term outlook.
