The Washington Wizards are 5-1 to start the 2021-22 NBA season, something that hasn’t happened since the 2005-06 season when head coach Wes Unseld, Jr. was in his first year as an assistant in Washington. Even Unseld wasn’t aware of that fact during postgame media availability last night.
Staying on the topic of hot starts, it’s more often than not that we see the Wizards race off to an 0-5 start instead, even when they make the playoffs. Cases in point? 2007-08 and last season in 2020-21.
Yesterday’s double overtime win against the Celtics required everyone to be in a celebratory mood, including the head coach himself.