Any chance the Washington Wizards had of turning around what has been a disastrous season went out the window Saturday afternoon. The team announced that John Wall, who has had persistent left heel pain and sat out the Wizards' Friday night loss to the Chicago Bulls, will undergo season-ending surgery.
With this news, the Wizards can effectively write off what little hope they had of salvaging a playoff push out of a season that has been filled with dysfunction. At 14-23, Washington is a mere four games out of the eighth seed in the Eastern Conference, but even against less-than-stellar competition, the gap will likely be too big to make up with Wall out of the picture.