NSL Insider - Team by team: Washington Wizards by gc6, updated on Thursday, November 07 2019, 12:43 am EST GM Joshua and the curious case of the Washington Wizards has a great ring to it, so lets go for that as the title. It also is extremely relevant, as the wizards have flipped and flopped around as much as anyone since the draft started. But i think its safe to say they finally have settled on a direction.
The Wizards first round pick and franchise player was non other than young gun and 70 points in one game player Devin Booker. Another GM that went the youth route to start off their NSL Journey. Some or maybe everyone thought it may have been a reach at the time when he was taken at pick 15 with some superstars still on the board in the form of Kyrie Irving, Damian Lillard and Russell Westbrook and of course Jayson "Bean" Tatum. It was an unbelievable risk to take and are we sure he is going to live up to expectations?
People have been calling Booker a future superstar since his rookie year. He signed a five-year, $158 million contract in July, he has the charisma of a natural celebrity, and players like Dwyane Wade, Kobe Bryant, and LeBron James have all expressed admiration along the way. But the Suns continued to lose, untill this season.Is the addition of some actual NBA players and an actual point guard turning the tide for him and the NBA suns, cause they look great at the moment.
He puts up numbers that leave him looking something like a young James Harden 26.5 ppg, 6.7 apg, 4.2 rpg, 46.5 FG%, 32% from three in the NBA. But will he ever be good enough to carry this Washington Wizards team to 50 regular season wins or maybe even to an NSL Championship being the big dog? or maybe he is going to get that fabled 90 rating that josh has been nagging us about after every bucket?I guess we will have to wait and see!
The Wizards have also been busy at the trade table during the off season, with a couple of big names coming and going from DC.
The first and probably the biggest one was the dealing of All Star big man Nikola Vucevic for what amounts to a couple of first rounders and a handful of seconds.
The whole deal is as follows, out: Nikola Vucevic In: JR Smith, Nerlens Noel, 2019 pick 13 (Brandon Clarke), Raptors 2020 1st round pick and a philly 2020 second rounder.
Nerlens Noel has since been on traded for 2 future second round picks and 5 Gm Points.
So that leaves us with a final tally of Brandon Clarke a most likely late 1st rounder if the raptors are as good as their roster suggest, 3 second rounders and 5 gm points for the big boy Vooch.
Brandon Clarke has certainly had a decent start to his career in the NBA with current averages of 10 points and 6 rebounds through his first few games and he definatley passes the eye test, but we will have to wait a couple of years before we can really pick a winner or loser from this deal.But that's no fun and we need some hot takes now, so ill leave that up to the punters at home to make up their mind on this one for the time being.
Another big trade for the wizards was the acquisition of Jusuf Nurkic or the big bad bosnian bear as he likes to be called. Also maybe another controversial deal at the time.
In for the Wizards: The Drug Addict Tyreke Evans, Yogi Ferrell and of course Jusuf Nurkic Out: Marc Gasol, Jakob Poeltl and the Wizards 2021 1st round pick. |
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