Nobody will be happier to find that the preseason end than the Washington Wizards; if it had gone on any longer, they’d have run out of bodies entirely.
With Martell Webster already on the shelf after his third back surgery in four seasons, the harms just kept coming.
Bradley Beal fractured his wrist, Glen Rice Jr. rolled his ankle, Kris Humphries ripped open his arm on the rim (since when are those items sharp?) , requiring surgery to fix the gash. Even John Wall was restricted with knee tendinitis.
The Wizards’ oldest player managed to survive the exhibition record unscathed. Paul Pierce, place to start at small forward for the Wiz, offered some veteran perspective on the parade to the coach’s table, per Jorge Castillo of The Washington Post:”It’s been tough. It has been hard. We haven’t had a full squad the majority of the preseason. The important thing is understanding it is a long season. The key is to become healthy.”
If the collective swelling recedes and all the stitches hold, Washington can nevertheless make good on the lofty expectations it set last season. Forty-four wins got people believing in D.C., and now the Wizards face a world where anything less than a top-four seed will constitute a disappointment.
Demands like that are as sterile as they’re daunting, especially for a franchise with little success in yesteryear. In 33-1, the Wiz aren’t totally out of the tournament film, but they are still a notch beneath the East’s elite.
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