Prior to the disappointing 2015-16 season, the Wizards hired David Adkins, an assistant for the University of Maryland women’s basketball team, as a player development assistant. On the surface, it was (as former Washington Post beat writer Jorge Castillo wrote) an “unusual” hire, as coaches do not typically follow a straight line from college women’s ball to the NBA. But one notable aspect of Adkins’ history immediately found its way to the headlines: he was an assistant coach at Montrose Christian, a K-12 private school in Rockville, Maryland, and was coaching during the tenure of one of the school’s most successful athletes: Kevin Durant.
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