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Gauging the Blogosphere: Are the Wizards as Good as Fans Hope?
Posted: 23rd September 2009 by Willy Yoder in NBA
Hopes in Washington, D.C. are up as the Washington Wizards prepare to begin the 2009-'10 preseason.
The combination of a returning Gilbert Arenas, the trading for two Minnesota stars, and the addition of veteran head coach Flip Saunders have lead many Wizards fans in the District to not only talk about the playoffs, but also possible championship contention.
Yet while high local hopes and confidence are all well and good, it’s hard ...
Gilbert Arenas, while discussing his return, blames the Washington Wizards for allowing him to return when he really was not ready:
“If you have a kid that loves basketball, that eats, sleeps, drinks and thinks basketball and all he knows is basketball and he gets hurt and he's your franchise player, you need to hold him back from himself.”
In SLAM’s rankings of the top 50 NBA players, Antawn Jamison recently came ...