The HARDEST 3 Years For the Washington Wizards is OVER…It’s Time For the Patience to be REWARDED.
The Washington Wizards’ season is over. They finished 17-65, completing what’s been a three-year bottoming-out period. Expectations will look different next season. With a top-five pick loading, it’s time for the next phase of the Wizards’ rebuild.
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A high pick and a new head coach. Keeping Keefe would be like keeping Unseld. You’re just going to fire him midseason.
Big shoutout to all of you who watched the channel all season! Tons of great content on the way. Thank you for making us your Wizards coverage!
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The problem with the Bullets/Wizards the last 48 years has been the two owners. The Hawks had a better record this year without Trae Young. I’m sure Dawkins was told to get a star who can sell some tickets.
Thank you Ben and AB for everything this year, you guys work hard to produce some of the best content around our team. Proud everydayer and can’t wait to see Locked On Wiz start to skyrocket with this team. Holding breath until the 10th boys 🤞
Now starts the countdown to 52wins next season. Every pod should start speaking on victory!!! We got a fat trade exception that could get us a really nice r piece.
#Boozer2DC
You guys are the best! Seriously, thanks for staying true to yourselves. You know I’m a huge fan of you too. It’s been a tough couple of years, as you know. It’s been a really tough one. I had season tickets for like 24 years. Actually, it’s crazy and really the only reason I stopped is unfortunately, I have inherited retinal eye disease and I’m legally blind now, unfortunately. But I always love to go to the games regardless, you know, but it was so fun with Gilbert Arnas and the playoffs with Caron Butler, Antoine Jamison, even prior to that, only at C. Webb, Rashid Wallace. We even had the defensive player of the year, which we found out later, which is kind of ironic right out of VCU, Ben Wallace, and then we even had Brent and Mark Price, Tom Gugliotta, Don McLean, Mirror Sun, Caler Cheyne. Just some really cool stud players. And when I was younger, you guys wouldn’t believe this, but there was no cable back then. I was born in 75, but every once in a while, the Wizards would actually not once in a while they would actually play on DC 20 television, and I would occasionally get an antenna and get a signal and I would get a small TV and bring it in my room to watch the Jeff Jeff Malone, Phil Chenier, Moses Malone. We are in the early 80s right after we won the championship at 79. That was a little. I was a little young for that, but I was watching them and 83 to 86 when I could or 83 and up, as you could imagine. It was so cool. I still miss Steve Buckhantz and Phil Chenier. They’re truly the best broadcasters! Steve Buckhantz was with us for about 20 years, and it’s hard to imagine them letting him go without a solid reason. I’m just trying to shake things up, but he wasn’t the right person for the job. It was the team, Ernie Grenfel, and all the others before him. Ernie Grunfeld really hurt this team for years. We had some amazing photos, of course, like John Wall. We even tried to get Gilbert Enos. We drafted your own Calbert Cheyne. We even had a few guys who were amazing three-point shooters. I don’t know if you remember, but we even had Mark Price and Brent Price, who were incredible three-point shooters. And of course, we actually had the best three-point shooter for a couple of years. She was number 40 back then, which was unheard of. An NBA analyst even won the three-point shooting contest! Tim Legler was amazing, especially on PlayStation. Tim Legler for three when the commentary started on PlayStation and Xbox, and before that, it was just incredible. We were in the early 80s with Wes on sale. Jeff Malone, Phil Chenier, Greer Greer. We had a great squad, and then we got an incredible squad. We had someone like Wallace, Chris Webber, and Ben Wallace. I have a bunch of great three-point shooters, but back then, we weren’t shooting the ball like we do now. Steph Curry’s three-pointers have changed the game, but anyway, I’m sorry, I’m going deep on you, but I just wanted to let you know. There’s a lot of history. I’ve been following the team for a while, so it’s been a welcome change to see you all. I really appreciate your content and thoughts. You’re all great young men doing a fantastic job, and I truly appreciate it. I know the fans are optimistic, even though things aren’t going perfectly right now, but I’m confident they’ll improve once we start winning. You’re all working hard, and your efforts will pay off in the next year. I’m really hoping we can get AJ. It would be incredible. We’re a bit disappointed, but we’re totally on board with the decision. Sara was a great addition. We really needed him, and he’s come a long way! I was a bit concerned he might not live up to expectations, but he’s definitely stepping up, and we’ve got so many talented young players. Just a heads-up, these guys are much younger than the players who came out of college a few years back. They’re just a year or two out of college, which is amazing. We need to give them time to grow, but again, Ben, as an AB, great job, boys. You’re all doing great. I love watching you all. Show everyone that things are improving. I know they are. You all have great, thoughtful content, and it’s wonderful to hear that. I’m not the only Wizards fan out there, just kidding. Let’s have an amazing 2026-2027 year and make the playoffs. We can do it. I’m calling it out. We’re going to make them successful next year. I’m calling it right now. Almost forgot that Michael Jordan was one of the coolest things ever we know he was on one leg, but he was still so amazing and of course he’s the goat and have him on the Wizards and that that time he was a partial owner so it was like oh my gosh, Michael Jordan just like is an owner of the team and now he went from being an owner to go out and plan on the court to show these young guys how to play it was incredible. It was so crazy the dude still average like 20 to 23 points a game people don’t realize and he played like not that many minutes he was is the best ever.
Let’s go!!!
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Ben, great job on the radio today. Heard you earlier this afternoon on 106.7 great analyzing the Wizards draft picks for the top five as you guys have been doing but you did a great job man you guys are pros and you’re only gonna get better really looking forward to your growth. Keep up the awesome job and Service given us the most updated Wizards content. Love it dude love it daily too, which is super cool…….💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼🏀🏀🏀 let’s go Wizards….. 2026/2027!
I can see a world where if they end up with the 5th, the package AD and the 5th to move up to the 2nd or 3rd.
Thank you guys for a great year of consistent coverage and content! You’ve paid your dues, looking forward to those wings and the Wizards being the most improved team next season!
Are you two bozos gonna be back covering the building era next year? Wouldn't have it any other way