Almost halfway through another dismal Washington Wizards season, it’s worth reminding ourselves: the team needed to go through something like this 3-4 years ago. The owner and the front office didn’t have the stomach for it them and instead frittered away value they could have gotten by trading away top players for draft picks in hopes of contending for the playoffs.
When Bradley Beal requested a trade, and Kristaps Porzingis told them his preferred destination, the new front office put an end to the patch-and-spackle era, got what they could, and looked to the future.
Unfortunately, the Ernie Grunfeld and Tommy Sheppard patch-and-spackle was hiding a yawning pit of basketball sins that has a bottom not visible to the naked eye.