After a tumultuous start, the Wizards have started to look like a playoff team in December. Is it for real?
Ten games into this season, the Washington Wizards were one of the more disappointing teams in the league. New coach Scott Brooks won just two of his first 10 games, and the Wizards appeared destined for the lottery for the second straight season and the seventh time in the past nine years.
But Washington has started to show a pulse, winning three of its last four games to move two games back of the eighth-place Indiana Pacers.