30 days / 30 teams: Washington Vizards

Wizards are in progress. If the data is formal: Washington won three three games in 2024/25 than in 2023/24. In federal capital, we are convinced of that: the team goes in the right direction.

The manifest will leaders leaders «Changer L’Age Image» From the franchise It will be a job for years. Collected -Season did not launch a revolution among the wizards, even if adjustments can be built a new project gradually set up in place.

Experience Jordan Poole Dedicated by failure while the old warrior does not have the fabric of the player “, in Washington, remains on his method between the future players who have all the time to prove the contract at the end of the contract. After the Marcus Smart (cut and another third wage work forces this season …) and Khrisis Medleton Last season, the wizards recovered CJ McCollum In exchange for Jordan Poole. The former pelican should experience a short interludium in the capital of those arena, while the last lines are already raised by several young shoots.

Bub Carrington, Kishavn George, Also Johnson IT Tre Johnson All younger than 22 and it will take to develop space. Sixth Draft, Tre Johnson will be one of the men to follow so much His point profile This workforce was missing. Former Texas could quickly play the time in Post 2, even if AJ Johnson, recovered in Milvaukee, showed some interesting flashes. In the same spirit of young talents, discovered at lower prices, wizards may have signed a very good job recovery Cam WhitmoreThey become more superstrumaries than ever in Houston.

The latter will compete in particular Bilal Coulibali to the wings in two very different registry. The Frenchman seems to be one of the few players whose place will be guaranteed, even if he has to cross the medicine for his third season and will miss the training camp.

His compatriot Alex Sarr He will also leave as an undisputed holder. After the flight of full promises, with frustrating injuries, the second choice of draft 2024 will have a lot of free time to bloom in the racket (15.6 points in 27.10 minutes after the festive weekend), it is so short. Wizards will need to find a way to elements for future glow, trying to reduce the gap with the rest of the NBA little, those who have fascinated the killing defeats in recent months.

Summer movements

Arrivals: Marvin Bagley III, Malaki Branham, Tre Johnson (draft), Dillon Jones, CJ McCollum, Will Riley (Draft), Jamar Vatkins, Che Whitmore

Departures: Saddik bei, Malcolm Brogdon, Richaun Holmes, Jordan Poole, Marcus Smart, Blake Vesley

The player following: Alex Sarr

We could talk about Cam Whitmore, who showed some sparks of their talent in rockets and who could explode in the free context of the wizard. We also could talk about Bub Carrington or even Bilal Coulibali, whose third year will be especially important, to claim like the main room.

However, given the weakness of the internal sectors, but also what he showed in the last part of the season, or with the French team, is undoubtedly Alek Sarr, which represents the hopes of the club.

With its ability to protect the circle while stretches and matches offers the profile of the interior where the Washington team hopes to be built. Its progress and its production will therefore be absolutely central for the team seeking the foundations of its medium-term and long-term project. And that is why it will be carefully examined …

Average age: 24.4 years

Payment list: 165.8 million dollars (28th)

Ideal scenario

Washington will probably not go to Top 10 in the east until next May. But wizards start far enough to have a good chance to finish like a pleasant surprise at the end of the season.

Bub Carrington, author of the Great end of the season when he was full of powers was entrusted to his last games, Alex Sarror Kishavn George seemed Moon Progress to the Moon Last season … Many profiles only touched on the surface of their potential in the capital.

There will still be several fundamentals on the road, but wizards can prove that there are reasons to believe in them within two or three years. Especially since the future now plays, while many players are under the Rookie contract and everyone will not be able to seek extensions. Washington is not in any case no prospects, with only $ 26.3 million guaranteed 2026/27. Transforming a cumulative 65 million dollars from the contract from Christ Middleton and CJ McCollum in medium -trm assets (high -Pictory player, draft tower, etc.) can restore a little more relief of long mitigation.

The worst scenario

30. Offensive rating, 28. Defensive, Washington sometimes hurts in 2024/25. Don’t show some signs of improvement began to be a bad sign Brian Keefewhich will be two and a half years on the bench at the end of this exercise. It as a team as inexperienced because these wizards make up tall (4. in league) match and numerous significant points are not surprisingly. Do not correct it as when created automatically would disorder.

Rotations will be interesting, including how to use CJ McCollum and Khris Middleton, who are not doomed to register for Washington in the long run. Also be careful to ensure hierarchies in the group and that some more greedy and eager players evidence their value does not vampire the game, as sometimes was the case in the last two seasons. An important thing is really progressing the nucleus of young players …