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?

Apologies to anyone reading this who actually does make a living playing ball in the National Basketball Association, but its probably safe to say that if you’re looking at this right now, you will never, ever have a closet this large. Ever. With a hat tip to Mark Wellborn at Urban Turf, this room — huh, it’s strange to be calling a space nearly as large as this editor’s entire apartment but a “room” –…

Wizards 108, Timberwolves 99: Andray Blatche had a career-high 33 points, Mike Miller chipped in five big threes and JaVale McGee had a double-double as the Wizards defeated similarly-awful Minnesota last night, but come on: the big story was the three-team trade that shipped Antawn Jamison to Cleveland and officially closed the book on the Wizards’ multi-year Big Three experiment. Washington packaged Jamison with the recently-acquired Drew Gooden and, in return, acquired Zydrunas Ilgauskas’ $11.5…

The Caps followed the lead of winger Jason Chimera’s Gordie Howe hat trick, and fought back to win in a shootout last night. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee) Capitals 5, Panthers 4 (SO): It’s been a goalfest of late for the Caps — in their last five games, they’ve averaged 5.2 goals per game. Luckily for them, their offense didn’t fall off against Florida, as they needed to fight back from a 4-1 deficit to earn…

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…

Photo of Gilbert Arenas by Kyle Gustafson True to his word, yesterday Washington Wizards guard Gilbert Arenas opted out of the final year of his contract, leaving $12.8 million on the table in the hopes of signing a longer and more lucrative deal. Whether that will be with the Wizards remains to be seen. Arenas played only 13 games this year, his season cut short by a nagging knee injury, leaving open the question…

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. Arenas started out hot in Game One, hitting his first four three…

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…

I doubt anyone is at the “Gilbert Who?” stage yet, but anyone who’s been watching the Washington Wizards play since Agent Zero went down would be hard pressed to deny that the team has been just plain fun to watch these last few weeks – perhaps because with the big gun out, they are playing like a team. Last night three players had double-doubles and a total of six players scored in double figures…

Ticket holders for Saturday’s Wizards v. Raptors match up probably made their purchases with visions of Gilbert Arenas and Chris Bosh dancing in their head. With both stars injured for the game, instead it turned into the Roger Mason Jr. v. Jason Kapono show. It turns out this wasn’t a bad thing at all. After not playing at all in Thursday’s loss in Philadelphia, Mason Jr. came off the bench to score 15 big…