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Photo by Jesse D. Garrabrant/NBAE via Getty Images Ultimately, game one of the Wizards vs. Philadelphia 76ers series is about what could have been expected. Washington didn’t play badly, and Philly didn’t play great, but the 76ers were the better team all season, and it showed. Washington’s plan against Joel Embiid could use some revision. He finished the game with 30 points and committed 5 turnovers along the way. The focus on Embiid left ample openings for Tobias Harris (37 points), Dan...

Photo by Tim Nwachukwu/Getty Images In the first ever playoff edition of the Bleav in Wizards podcast, Larry Hughes and I dissected the Wizards’ Game 1 strategy and laid out the adjustments we think the team needs to make in order to have a chance at winning the series. A lot of the online debate among Wizards’ fans seemed to center around two topics: whether the Wizards should ditch the three-guard lineup in favor of bigger wings and whether or not they should double team Joel Embiid. Hu...

Well, after so many years of waiting around and awful basketball seasons (and I'm not talking within the state of Arizona either), your Phoenix Suns are finally back into the Playoffs! I have to...

What the Sixers should and shouldn’t do in their series vs. the Wizards Share this story Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports The gap between regular season and playoff basketball is enormous. The scenario in which one team can thoroughly scout the other and implement game-to-game adjustments throughout the two weeks of a series on top of the added intensity and attention to details put forth by the players truly make for a different game. That alone makes looking back on two teams’ regular seas...

With an extra day off before the Wizards tip off their first round series against the Philadelphia 76ers, let’s take a quick look back at some of the numbers from the regular season. We’ll surely...

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“Playoff Prep,” Morey, the 76ers’ top decision maker, wrote on Instagram. Oh, the Sixers were called much worse than a group of dolts when the franchise embarked on the strip-for-parts rebuilding seasons known as the Process. The Sixers were Team Tank. Larry Brown, the coach who led the Sixers to the 2001 NBA finals, said the early seasons “ made me sick to my stomach.” Philly lost some games. Well, lots of them. It had two, 26-plus game losing streaks that made even th...

I thought the Washington Wizards would win this game, but I didn’t think it would be an epic beatdown where a 27-point margin understates their dominance over the Indiana Pacers. Here’s the...

Get to know D.C. with our daily newsletter We dive deep on the day’s biggest story and share links to everything you need to know. Get the free newsletter Success! Youre on the list. Whoops! There was an error and we couldnt process your subscription. Please reload the page and try again. Processing… I already get the newsletter Making the playoffs was always the goal for the Washington Wizards this season, even though that appeared doubtful much of th...

Wizards look to overcome inexperience in big spots to save season Follow Us Question of the Day   By Matthew Paras - The Washington Times - Wednesday, May 19, 2021 Bradley Beal guessed he could count on one hand the number of players on the Wizards with playoff experience. Technically, he would need an extra finger, but the point remained: In their biggest game of the year, most of the Wizards were in unfamiliar territor...