The Washington Wizards were the center of the NBA universe this week, and set the whole league on fire by first trading All-Star G Bradley Beal to the Phoenix Suns for G Chris Paul, G Landry Shamet, 6 second round picks and 4 first round pick swaps. Then, they traded F/C Kristaps Porzingis to Boston, just minutes before his opt-in deadline, to the Boston Celtics in a 3-way deal involving the Memphis Grizzlies for G Tyus Jones, F Mike Muscala, F Danilo Gallinari, and the 35th overall pick in this year’s draft (which then got traded to Chicago for 2 more second rounders). Finally, Chris Paul was flipped to Golden State for G Jordan Poole and a 2030 protected first round pick + a 2027 second round pick. Which one saw the best return?
The Wizards added 2 new players through the draft tonight in Bilal Coulibaly, Victor Wenbanyama’s teammate, and Tristan Vukcevic. What do we make of them? Are they ready to play now, or are they higher upside players?
Now that the Wizards have made all these trades for future assets and their draft picks tonight, where does that leave them? What hope do we have for the present and the future?
Finally, guest co-host Max Ewart drops his annual “definitely won’t suck in the NBA” list, featuring 4 players this year!
TIMECODES
0:00 Intro
1:55 Wizards Trades Recap
5:58 Wizards Draft Picks
11:49 State of the Wizards
22:13 Good NBA Future Players
3 Comments
Gallo an Muscala are gonna help the development of Vuc an Jay Huff as stretch bigs hopefully deni an Bilal are the same player but I'm liking the eurobasket theme team
Great start to the rebuild, A+ for winger so far 🔥
Having a Serbian is always a good thing 🎉🎉🎉