WASHINGTON -- The Wizards sat out the NBA draft entirely, the first time in the franchise's 55-year history that the team did not make a selection.
"The people we were looking at weren't available at the time we were looking at," Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld said as the draft concluded a little past midnight on Friday. "And this wasn't one of the stronger drafts in recent memory."
The Wizards entered the draft, which began Thursday night, without a pick because they had traded two away.
The club's first-round choice, No. 13 overall, was sent to Phoenix in the deal that brought forward Markieff Morris to Washington in February.