Two months into the 2019-2020 NBA season many Wizards fans were clamoring for Moritz Wagner to supplant Thomas Bryant as the starting center. By the end of the season, those same fans wondered if Wagner had a long-term future with the team. After the first quarter of the team’s 97-86 preseason loss to Detroit, some of those same tweets started popping up.
Personally, I wondered what the addition of Robin Lopez meant for Wagner’s role for the 2020-2021 season. Wagner was the first big-man off the bench in the first preseason game and looked to be back to his early 2019 form, scoring 13 points and grabbing 7 rebounds.