One of the unintended consequences of Ernie Grunfeld’s penchant for trading and selling draft picks is that the Wizards summer league teams have been disappointingly boring.
Not this year. The Wizards finally used both their draft picks (Troy Brown, Issuf Sanon), picked up a promising young player off waivers (Thomas Bryant) and brought back last season’s two-way player (Devin Robinson). The Wizards even got to play against a top-10 pick in their opening game versus the Cleveland Cavaliers (Collin Sexton, No. 8).
Theoretically, this should be Washington’s most exciting summer league team in years. I say “theoretically” because I wrote that introduction before I actually entered the Cox Pavilion and watched whatever it is you would call the Wizards first game.