Editor’s Note: This excerpt from Spaced Out: How the NBA’s Three-Point Revolution Changed Everything You Thought You Knew About Basketball by Mike Prada is reprinted with the permission of Triumph Books. For more information and to order a copy, please visit Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookshop.org, or TriumphBooks.com/SpacedOut. Copyright ©2022 by Mike Prada.
THE 2008–09 SEASON was one Washington Wizards fans would prefer to forget—and that’s saying something given the franchise’s woeful history.
Their offseason decision to octuple down on a core with zero playoff series victories to its name was going horribly wrong.