On Wednesday, the Wizards and Heart of America completed and unveiled renovations at The Unselds’ School in Baltimore, MD., part of the NBA75 Live, Learn and Play initiative celebrating decades of league history in a milestone season and its teams’ connections to their local communities.
To celebrate the birthday of Hall of Famer Wes Unseld, the Washington Wizards and Heart of America announced that they have joined forces to renovate The Unselds’ School as part of the NBA 75th Live, Learn or Play initiative that celebrates the league’s historic milestone season.
Unseld, 49, will need all of his superhero powers in his latest calling.
The new Wizards head coach has been asked to do what his father, whose jersey hangs in the rafters at Capitol One Arena, did as a player decades ago: Bring this beleaguered organization an NBA championship.
The Wizards made it official Saturday with the announcement that Unseld, the son of the late Wes Unseld Sr., the greatest player in franchise history, would take the job left vacant after Scott Brooks and his five-year, $35 million contract was not renewed.
Unseld, who played high school and college ball in Baltimore, returns to lead a franchise where he got his start as an assistant coach, from 2005 to 2011, followed by stints with the Golden State Warriors, the Orlando Magic and the Denver Nuggets.