The Wizards snapped their seven-game losing streak, smashing the Charlotte Bobcats, 108-75. Newly-acquired forward Rashard Lewis didn’t play, but he said he is ready to provide a veteran presence for the Wizards. Here’s more from his pre-game news conference. Meanwhile, Gilbert Arenas debuted for the Orlando Magic in Atlanta and h [...]
Gilbert Arenas’s drive to work will be a lot less stressful on Tuesday morning. He’ll show up for to play a game for the Orlando Magic against the Dallas Mavericks, rather than taking those familiar roads from his home in Great Falls home to the Verizon Center and stepping into the locker room a year after the worst decision of hi [...]
Forty-eight hours after being dealt from the Magic to the Wizards, Rashard Lewis said this afternoon at Verizon Center that the shock has slowly subsided and that he’s ready to move forward with his latest challenge. “Going from a team that is competing for a championship to a team that’s rebuilding, the goals obviously chan [...]
Rashard Lewis is expected to make his debut tonight when introduced himself to the local media tonight as the Wizards host the Charlotte Bobcats at Verizon Center. Meanwhile, the Wizards have brought back Lester Hudson to help fill the team’s backup point guard void after Gilbert Arenas was traded to Orlando and it was determined that J [...]
The Wizards have brought back Lester Hudson to help fill the backup point guard void that the team now faces after it dealt Gilbert Arenas to Orlando and with John Wall out indefinitely with a bone bruise under his right knee cap. Hudson confirmed by telephone that he was coming back and will be in uniform when the Wizards host the Charlotte [...]
The greatest basketball player that China has ever produced may be staring down his athletic mortality, trying to decide if he can handle another comeback from another foot injury. But as Houston Rockets center Yao Ming considers the options for his future after discovering that he was done for the season with a stress fracture in his left fo [...]
It has been lost in all of the hysteria surrounding Gilbert Arenas’s departure, but the Wizards actually acquired a former all-star player in their deal with the Orlando Magic. Rashard Lewis arrives in town on Monday, will take a physical this morning and is expected to make his debut when the Wizards host the Charlotte Bobcats at Veriz [...]
I just hope that you miss me a little when I’m gone. (Photo by John McDonnell/Washington Post) Don’t get too caught up with what the Wizards received or didn’t receive for Gilbert Arenas on Saturday because acquiring Rashard Lewis from the Orlando Magic was not the primary goal in this endeavor. This was all about creating a [...]
This might be our night. (Photo by By Jonathan Newton/Washington Post) LeBron James wrapped his arms around Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh. He pulled Wade aside and gave him a bear hug. Then Bosh ran over to Wade and gave him a tight embrace. A smiling, laughing James then looked at his teammates and shouted, “Let’s go home.” Yo [...]
On the same day they traded Gilbert Arenas to Orlando for Rashard Lewis, the Wizards play LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and the Miami Heat five days after hosting Kobe Bryant and the Los Angeles Lakers. Just another quiet Saturday in Chinatown. Let the conversation begin in the thread below. You can also join the conversation on Twitter with Gene [...]
The Washington Wizards have completed a deal that would send former all-star guard Gilbert Arenas to the Orlando Magic in exchange for Rashard Lewis, the Wizards confirmed, and a news conference is scheduled for 5:15 p.m. today at Verizon Center. The deal ends a more than seven-year relationship between Arenas and the Wizards, who are rebuild [...]
Don’t look at me like that. (Photo by Toni L. Sandys/Washington Post) As Gilbert Arenas got prepared to walk through the doors of the practice court before the Wizards’ shootaround, I asked him if he had anything he’d like to say. “You know I don’t talk on game days,” Arenas said, then walked inside. But wh [...]