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I can’t believe this thread doesn’t exist but how bout a thread to collect all things #SoWizards

I’ll start. Did you know that if you look up the list of top 25 longest playoff droughts for NBA teams, we make the list 3 times under our different team names. 11 years as the Baltimore Bullets, 8 years as the Washington Bullets, and 7 years as the Washington Wizards #SoWizards

For me, nothing in comparable to the fact that the Wizards haven't won 50 games in 42 years.

50 games is basically the threshold of when a team becomes relevant - having at least a long shot chance at a Finals appearance. The Wizards have not been relevant for literally 42 years. Jimmy freaking Carter was president that last time the Wizards were a contender. You could tell the history of the NBA for the last 4 decades, never mention the Wizards once, and your story would be totally complete.

Has any other team in any other sport gone through such a drought where they were never considered a serious contender for 40 years?

https://twitter.com/so_wizards

I thought this was about Kevin Broom's podcast

nate33 wrote:For me, nothing in comparable to the fact that the Wizards haven't won 50 games in 42 years.

50 games is basically the threshold of when a team becomes relevant - having at least a long shot chance at a Finals appearance. The Wizards have not been relevant for literally 42 years. Jimmy freaking Carter was president that last time the Wizards were a contender. You could tell the history of the NBA for the last 4 decades, never mention the Wizards once, and your story would be totally complete.

Has any other team in any other sport gone through such a drought where they were never considered a serious contender for 40 years?

It's actually remarkable. Even some of the bottom feeders of the NBA like Sacramento and Orlando have had more peak years recently.

nate33 wrote:For me, nothing in comparable to the fact that the Wizards haven't won 50 games in 42 years.

50 games is basically the threshold of when a team becomes relevant - having at least a long shot chance at a Finals appearance. The Wizards have not been relevant for literally 42 years. Jimmy freaking Carter was president that last time the Wizards were a contender. You could tell the history of the NBA for the last 4 decades, never mention the Wizards once, and your story would be totally complete.

Has any other team in any other sport gone through such a drought where they were never considered a serious contender for 40 years?

Hey, at least we're not the Kings?



Imagine breaking a Clippers futility record.

nate33 wrote:For me, nothing in comparable to the fact that the Wizards haven't won 50 games in 42 years.

50 games is basically the threshold of when a team becomes relevant - having at least a long shot chance at a Finals appearance. The Wizards have not been relevant for literally 42 years. Jimmy freaking Carter was president that last time the Wizards were a contender. You could tell the history of the NBA for the last 4 decades, never mention the Wizards once, and your story would be totally complete.

Has any other team in any other sport gone through such a drought where they were never considered a serious contender for 40 years?

I was ticked that season we missed 50 by a game. Lost twice to a mediocre Heat team in two of the last three games. Started 2-8 ended 3-5, we were pretty nice in-between though. Too bad our bench was hot garbage other than Bojan. I really disliked Morris too because he just dogged it on defense so much despite a guy having a rep for defense.

nate33 wrote:For me, nothing in comparable to the fact that the Wizards haven't won 50 games in 42 years.

50 games is basically the threshold of when a team becomes relevant - having at least a long shot chance at a Finals appearance. The Wizards have not been relevant for literally 42 years. Jimmy freaking Carter was president that last time the Wizards were a contender. You could tell the history of the NBA for the last 4 decades, never mention the Wizards once, and your story would be totally complete.

Has any other team in any other sport gone through such a drought where they were never considered a serious contender for 40 years?

I mean, the Knicks are working hard to catch up.

B8RcDeMktfxC wrote:

nate33 wrote:For me, nothing in comparable to the fact that the Wizards haven't won 50 games in 42 years.

50 games is basically the threshold of when a team becomes relevant - having at least a long shot chance at a Finals appearance. The Wizards have not been relevant for literally 42 years. Jimmy freaking Carter was president that last time the Wizards were a contender. You could tell the history of the NBA for the last 4 decades, never mention the Wizards once, and your story would be totally complete.

Has any other team in any other sport gone through such a drought where they were never considered a serious contender for 40 years?

I mean, the Knicks are working hard to catch up.

The Knicks have had a bad run, but at least they were relevant in the 90's and had one outlier season in 2013.

The Knicks have been pretty freaking awful for the last 20 years, I must admit. They've only had 4 above .500 seasons out of the last 21.

nate33 wrote:

B8RcDeMktfxC wrote:

nate33 wrote:For me, nothing in comparable to the fact that the Wizards haven't won 50 games in 42 years.

50 games is basically the threshold of when a team becomes relevant - having at least a long shot chance at a Finals appearance. The Wizards have not been relevant for literally 42 years. Jimmy freaking Carter was president that last time the Wizards were a contender. You could tell the history of the NBA for the last 4 decades, never mention the Wizards once, and your story would be totally complete.

Has any other team in any other sport gone through such a drought where they were never considered a serious contender for 40 years?

I mean, the Knicks are working hard to catch up.

The Knicks have had a bad run, but at least they were relevant in the 90's and had one outlier season in 2013.

The Knicks have been pretty freaking awful for the last 20 years, I must admit. They've only had 4 above .500 seasons out of the last 21.

This year's lotto aside, I think the Wiz are closer to a 50 win season than the Knicks. But I'm a KP-believer, so take that into account.

A lot of the #sowizards stuff is sprinkled throughout the various threads, Tommy trading for Holiday/Todd being an example

An underrated entry into #SoWizards lore - Dwight Howard's tenure here. Signs for the MLE (plus a player option, of course) and then immediately gets ass surgery and is out for the year. Then, picks up his player option so we have to trade him for another garbage player. Dwight Howard all of a sudden gets better and contributes at least something to his next couple of teams. Probably nowhere near a top ten or even top 25 entry on this list. Still - so ridiculous. So Wizards.

9 and 20 wrote:An underrated entry into #SoWizards lore - Dwight Howard's tenure here. Signs for the MLE (plus a player option, of course) and then immediately gets ass surgery and is out for the year. Then, picks up his player option so we have to trade him for another garbage player. Dwight Howard all of a sudden gets better and contributes at least something to his next couple of teams. Probably nowhere near a top ten or even top 25 entry on this list. Still - so ridiculous. So Wizards.

Agreed!

And how about:

Giving up a 1st to acquire Bogdanovic...as well as to get rid of Nicholson.. That first became Jarrett Allen and Bogdanovic was a 3-month rental
Trading Kelly Oubre for the corpse of Ariza?
Trading Otto Porter for a rental of Bobby Portis and Jabari Parker???

9 and 20 wrote:An underrated entry into #SoWizards lore - Dwight Howard's tenure here. Signs for the MLE (plus a player option, of course) and then immediately gets ass surgery and is out for the year. Then, picks up his player option so we have to trade him for another garbage player. Dwight Howard all of a sudden gets better and contributes at least something to his next couple of teams. Probably nowhere near a top ten or even top 25 entry on this list. Still - so ridiculous. So Wizards.

An obvious one but what the hell…

We drafted the poster-child for “First Overall Pick” busts - Kwame Brown.

#sowizards

miller31time wrote:An obvious one but what the hell…

We drafted the poster-child for “First Overall Pick” busts - Kwame Brown.

#sowizards

It gets better though! Kwame gets famous again by getting into a flame war with Matt Barnes, then becomes a mouthpiece for MAGA world. I still remember his 30 and 19 game like it was yesterday. Who could have predicted?? #SoWiz.

I remember arguing that Kwame had more potential than Serge Ibaka.

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Benjammin wrote:I remember arguing that Kwame had more potential than Serge Ibaka.

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Hey, Kwame had a few games early on where he'd play about even with Tim Duncan and Jermaine O'Neal (in his prime). I think everyone believed in him to some degree at various points.

I don't know if this really qualifies, but imagine if 2013 wasn't one of the weakest drafts in recent memory. Otto was a solid role player but having a #3 pick in a stronger draft was probably the best chance to have a way to build a 50+ win team with Wall, Beal and X. Of course, it doesn't mean EG would have made the correct pick in a stronger draft, but it's unfortunate that the draft class was so weak.

Remember our fire sale after Gun gate. The pathetic haul we got back for Antwan Jamison and Caron Butler

Frichuela wrote:Trading Otto Porter for a rental of Bobby Portis and Jabari Parker???

That actually turned out well for us. Dumping Porter when we did saved us 3 years of his horrible contract during which he barely ever played.