In a few short weeks, your fearless editor will finally be attending her very first Wizards game, and I’m getting more excited by the day. I’ve reportedly got a great seat (thanks, Matt!), the Wizards are having a fantastic season, and the game in question will find the boys facing down the Los Angeles Lakers — a team I would be hard-pressed to despise more. Awesome. So of course, in preparation for the big day,…

The Washington Wizards went out on a limb and selected two Eastern Europeans in last night’s draft. As basketball continues to become a more international sport, teams have been more willing to use draft picks on relatively unproven talents overseas. With the 18th pick overall, the Wizards selected forward Oleksiy Pecherov, a 7-foot Ukranian. It was the first time that they had used a first round pick on an international player. With their second pick,…