The Washington Wizards have fired head coach Flip Saunders after two-and-a-half losing seasons. more ›

The Wizards added a veteran presence with the acquisition of center and power forward Ronny Turiaf from the New York Knicks. more ›

It's a few months late, but fans of the Washington Wizards should be happy to know that the team will return to the court with a pre-season game against the Philadelphia 76ers on December 16. more ›

The Washington Wizards lost the NBA Draft Lottery back in mid-May, chance pushing where their 23-59 record was slotted back two spaces to the unenviable position of sixth. “Jan Vesely,” I sarcastically said to one of my team rooting cohorts, “he sounds like ‘such’ a Wizard.” more ›

Around 6 p.m. on Tuesday night, John Wall confidently strode into the NBA Draft Lottery media room, flanked by a member of the Wizards' press relations staff and an NBA escort. He pointed and smiled at a few people, gave former Georgetown and current Detroit Pistons center Greg Monroe a half hug/half handsake, and then did the same to projected number one pick Kyrie Irving. Then he smiled and shook hands with some members of the Washington D.C. media, before finally settling down in his designated area for interviews. He looked like a young man who ready to take on any and everything thrown his way. more ›

The Washington Wizards unveiled a new logo and uniforms this morning, switching to a familiar red, white and blue motif and bringing back a font and logo which harkens back to the team's glory days. The design brings all of Leonsis' sporting interests -- the Wizards, Capitals and Mystics -- under the same patriotic theme. more ›

It's "our time" for VCU head coach Shaka Smart and his Final Four-bound Rams. But for the Wizards -- who trained on VCU's home floor in 2009 -- when is that time going to come? more ›

The blogging owner of the Washington Wizards loves to feed the monster and to have the monster fed to his benefit. But does it have to be so scary? more ›

Wall's adjustments to the NBA are two-fold. On one hand he has to run the Wizards, take on guards like Derrick Rose and Steve Nash, and develop into an elite NBA player. But off the court he has just as formidable challenges like cooking, laundry and determining who he can and cannot invite into his inner circle. So what can he learn from former Wizards number one pick Kwame Brown's experience? more ›

Earlier this season, after who knows what number post-game press conference where he had to explain a frustrating loss, Wizards coach Flip Saunders exited the media room with an impassioned step. The media followed his path up until the point where Saunders carried forward to his office, per usual, while hurried members of the press took a quick turn left into locker room to interview players. Before disappearing around the corner, in a moment where he probably thought he was alone, Saunders let out a loud expletive, both rhyming with and feeling down on his luck. more ›

Going into last night's contest, the Wizards had dropped 19 consecutive road games, and I knew that their 20th chance to break that streak would be intriguing. Either they would finally get off the proverbial schneid and get that first road win, or they would sink even deeper into the abyss of losses. more ›

"Fifteen years and I've never seen anything like that in my life," was the third sentence from Flip Saunders' mouth at his post-game press conference after the Wizards' 136-133 overtime win versus the Sacramento Kings on Tuesday night. His first line: "Are you sure I have to do this?"

A quick-witted reporter retorted, "Well, we got to write something." more ›

Fans feed off John Wall's emotion and then return that energy back to him and his teammates in a spiral of basketball goodness. more ›

Well what do you know, there's some non-Strasburg sports news today after all. Wizards Insider reports that the sale of the Washington Wizards to Ted Leonsis has been approved by the NBA Board of Governors. more ›

Reporters were camped outside Gilbert Arenas's Great Falls house this morning, waiting for Agent Zero to return home for the first time since he entered a halfway house 30 days ago. more ›

Capitals 6, Penguins 3: Never has deja vu been so exciting. The Caps beat the Penguins 6-3 for the second time this year on Mellon Arena ice and completed a four-game regular season sweep of the Pens. Though most will say it really doesn't mean much until the Caps prove they can beat Pittsburgh four times in this postseason, the sweep should help the Caps' mindset as they head to the playoffs, which, as we all know, ended last year in a Game 7 nightmare against Crosby & Co. more ›

The Washington Post is reporting that Capitals owner Ted Leonsis has reached an agreement with the estate of Abe Pollin on a price for the Washington Wizards and the Verizon Center. The figure is said to be around $550 million. The deal's not yet done, according to unnamed sources cited by the Post, as they still have to hammer out "non-financial issues such as the operations of the arena." Still, news that the two camps have been able to tentatively agree on a number is good news for Leonsis, who's surely hoping to have a deal in place before June, when the NBA draft takes place. more ›

Yahoo! Sports reports that Flip Saunders, formerly the head coach of the Detroit Pistons and Minnesota Timberwolves, will be the next head coach of the Wizards. League sources told Yahoo! Sports that Saunders comes to the team on a four-year, $18 million deal. Saunders -- who has done pretty much everything one can do in terms of coaching professional basketball but win a NBA championship -- will take over the helms after this season is up, an away game from now. Current interim coach Ed Tapscott will likely return to the front office. more ›

Ho-hum, the Wizards beat the Pistons last night. But that's not hard to do since Detroit acquired Allen Iverson last month. The Pistons are only 8-9 since the trade and sitting in the middle of the pack in a competitive Eastern Conference. The Wiz, meanwhile, are 4-15 and going nowhere fast. Or are they? more ›

The Boston Celtics raised championship banner number 17 to the rafters last night and Greg Oden apparently can't play more than three minutes without getting injured. NBA basketball is back! The Washington Wizards start their season tonight at home against the New Jersey Nets at 7 p.m. Here are five hot issues that the Wizards will need to solve this season if they want to make it to the playoffs for the fifth consecutive season: more ›

Ruh-roh. Not long after news leaked out that Wizards starting center Brendan Haywood might be lost for 4-6 months, team captain Antawn Jamison went down with a knee injury in Dallas midway through the first quarter of last night's preseason opener. The team is officially calling it a "sprained knee" but on TV it looked much worse than that. The CSN broadcast cut to a nattily dressed Agent Zero on the Wizards bench and he looked like he was about to lose his lunch. Not good. Jamison is scheduled to undergo an MRI today, but he thinks he will be OK. "It was a scary moment, and it hurt really bad at first," Jamison told the Post. "But once I got back [to the locker room] and got some ice on it, I actually don't feel any pain right now, so that's a good sign. We'll have to wait and see what the MRI says, but I think I'm going to be fine." more ›

Due to the unreasonable 6 p.m. start time, I missed most of Game Five last night, but I did get home in time to see Caron Butler play the hero, connecting on a tough drive with 3.9 seconds left to give the Wizards the win and bring their first round series against the Cleveland Cavaliers back to D.C. down 3-2. LeBron James attempted a contested lay-up at the buzzer that would have given the Cavs the series, but for the first time in what seems like forever, the Cavs missed a potential game-winner and the series that never ends rolls on. It will continue without Gilbert Arenas, however. Agent Zero shut it down for the remainder of the playoffs before the game, citing a pinched nerve in his knee. more ›

The NBA playoffs is all about adjustments. After their performance in Game Two, the Wizards needed quite a few and head coach Eddie Jordan responded in kind for Game Three. Gilbert Arenas was added to the starting lineup, the team switched a majority of its defensive matchups, and the result was a resounding 108-72 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers that likely had most fans at home on the couch switching over to Lost at 10 p.m. The 36-point victory set a club record. more ›

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Despite a sprained right wrist, Gilbert Arenas is expected to play tonight as the Washington Wizards look to even their first round playoff series on the road against the Cleveland Cavaliers, after losing a very winnable Game One 93-86 on Saturday. Arenas, still making his way back from knee surgery, injured the wrist late in Game One as he fouled LeBron James. more ›

With only a week to go in the regular season, games mean more to some teams than others. The Boston Celtics long ago wrapped up the Atlantic Division and the first seed in the Eastern Conference while the Washington Wizards are making a final push for the fourth seed and home court advantage in the first round of the playoffs. As a result, last night's 109-95 win over Boston can't exactly be taken as gospel, but was impressive nonetheless. more ›

With a number of area teams gearing up for a playoff run, it's an exciting time for sports in the Washington area. Here's what you should be watching this week. Don't hesitate to leave your own suggestions in the comments, and, if you're so inclined, shoot me an email with suggestions for next week. more ›

Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison were chosen as reserves for the 2008 NBA All-Star games yesterday, a just reward for the two players largely responsible for keeping the Washington Wizards in the Eastern Conference playoff hunt. The Feb. 17 game in New Orleans will mark the second All Star appearance for both players. more ›