The D.C. Council… TAI’s highlights, seen and heard, from each Washington Wizards game. Now: Wizards at Nuggets, Game 65, March 12, 2016, from Denver, Colorado, via Sean Fagan (@McCarrick).
M.V.P.
Thirteen years worth of chicken littles.
Maligning the Wizards and their prospects at success has been a cottage industry in the District of Columbia and its surrounding states ever since the glory days of the later 1970s faded into patina and the reality of the 1980s set in. The 1980s Washington Bullets—spearheaded by talents such Ledell Eackles and consisting of sideshow entertainment like Muggsy Bogues and Manute Bol—were often derided, but almost never analyzed at the level that observers put teams under on a game-to-game level (thanks to the relatively recent introduction of statistical analyses and the necessity of feeding the maw of a relentless news cycle).