The scene this past Saturday was typically D.C. A packed gym, representative of city demographics with basketball interest, served as the tiniest of temporary meccas for the basketball world.

The scene this past Saturday was typically D.C. A packed gym, representative of city demographics with basketball interest, served as the tiniest of temporary meccas for the basketball world.

How are the Washington Wizards spending their summer vacation? Hooping, planking, pranking, promoting strip clubs and, of course, tweeting. (My goodness, the tweeting.)

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.”

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?

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?

Terrible, just flat-out terrible. You know how the RZA pronounces the word “ridiculous” at the end of Kanye’s “So Appalled“? Yes, that. That applied to this Washington Wizards team. I’ve seen a lot of bad Wizards/Bullets, teams, but this year’s squad has the unique distinction of being one of the worst in franchise history, yet also filled with the most hope. Winning percentage-wise, the current Wiz Kids are tied as the sixth worst in franchise history, and tied for the fourth worst in my lifetime following the franchise. Let travel down memory lane, shall we?

John Wall has appeared in 39 out of 51 possible games this season. After a fast start out of the gates, who does he compare to now? (Photo: AP/Patrick Semansky)

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.

“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.”