Washington Wizards
Record: 8-13
Grade: D-
The Washington Wizards might be broken, on their last legs but they’re not destroyed. And it looks like they’re going to try to ignore the noise and continue with the core around John Wall, Bradley Beal and Otto Porter Jr. – even when all the reports suggest that they shouldn’t.
Washington is this weird team that, no question, should be better and could be better, but for some reason continues to underperform. And this year could finally be that breaking point. However, apparently the first quarter of the season is too early to throw the towel in on this core.
And, to a certain extent, I agree with that. If the Wizards somehow make the playoffs this season, they’ll still be feared to a certain level. When this team is playing at their highest level, Beal and Wall create one of the NBA’s best duos.