Spencer Dinwiddie tore up his knee two days after Christmas in 2020. It was the third game of the delayed 2020-21 season.
Less than 10 months later, the 6-5 guard played in the season opener for Washington. Two days later, on Oct. 22, he had 34 points and nine assists in a one-point win over Indiana.
From that heady beginning with the Washington Wizards, things somehow spiraled downward after the season’s first 20 games, during which Dinwiddie piloted the Wizards to a 13-7 record.
On Feb. 10, the NBA’s trading deadline, Dinwiddie was sent to the Mavericks in the Kristaps Porzingis deal.