Predict the future

Post #1 » by **penbeast0** » Tue Nov 11, 2025 2:26 pm

This is a tank year, what about next year? Do the Wiz grow up enough to make the playin? Better than that? Or miss the playoffs again?

9 and 20 · Post #2 » by **9 and 20** » Tue Nov 11, 2025 2:31 pm

Wiz get the 9th pick again and are contracted out of the league. What is left of the team is sold to a group led by Grunfeld and Trevor Ariza. Peter John Ramos and Isuf Sanon leads us back and we win the 2029 NBA championship.

Post #3 » by **nate33** » Tue Nov 11, 2025 2:52 pm

I live a charmed life. I'm happy. I've been happily married for 30 years. I have 3 wonderful, brilliant kids who are doing well at college. I get along with my extended family and in-laws. I'm self-employed, with no boss, making more money than I need. I have no debt. I'm extremely healthy, and fit enough to play basketball at age 53.

I believe God wants me to be humbled in some way to achieve some level of Karmic balance. So God has decided that the one and only professional sports team that I love will never be successful. The Wizards will find a way to be bad for as long as I live. It is the cross I must bear.

All things considered, I guess I can't complain. It's a fair tradeoff. But I'm sorry for the rest of you Wizards fans who have suffered for these last 47 years. Hang in there. I probably have about 40 years to go. After that, the curse will be lifted and the Wizards will be free to win again.

Tyrone Messby · Post #4 » by **Tyrone Messby** » Tue Nov 11, 2025 2:52 pm

If they get a top 3 pick, they’re a playoff team next season and the fun really begins. If they can land Duren in the offseason and Peterson in the draft…oh man. Sign a vet guard (not CJ) to come in and help our guards and we are on a gravy train with biscuit wheels.

doclinkin · Post #5 » by **doclinkin** » Tue Nov 11, 2025 10:03 pm

nate33 wrote:I live a charmed life. I'm happy. I've been happily married for 30 years. I have 3 wonderful, brilliant kids who are doing well at college. I get along with my extended family and in-laws. I'm self-employed, with no boss, making more money than I need. I have no debt. I'm extremely healthy, and fit enough to play basketball at age 53.

I believe God wants me to be humbled in some way to achieve some level of Karmic balance. So God has decided that the one and only professional sports team that I love will never be successful. The Wizards will find a way to be bad for as long as I live. It is the cross I must bear.

All things considered, I guess I can't complain. It's a fair tradeoff. But I'm sorry for the rest of you Wizards fans who have suffered for these last 47 years. Hang in there. I probably have about 40 years to go. After that, the curse will be lifted and the Wizards will be free to win again.

Quoting this for later uplift to the HOF thread.

That said clearly the answer to all our woes is to track down Nate and eliminate the problem…

AFM · Post #6 » by **AFM** » Tue Nov 11, 2025 10:49 pm

If you put it in the HOF thread, put an asterisk that says this fella lives in Ohio.

doclinkin · Post #7 » by **doclinkin** » Tue Nov 11, 2025 11:02 pm

We’re wiz fans. We can’t be picky about anywhere a fan comes from. Hell it’s to his credit he’s in Ohio but not a LeBJ fan. Hell we even have Persian fans if you can believe that.

Also Dat and Zonker are in Ohio if I recall correctly. Somebody else I’m forgetting from back in the day.

payitforward · Post #8 » by **payitforward** » Tue Nov 11, 2025 11:09 pm

nate33 wrote:I live a charmed life. I'm happy. I've been happily married for 30 years. I have 3 wonderful, brilliant kids who are doing well at college. I get along with my extended family and in-laws. I'm self-employed, with no boss, making more money than I need. I have no debt. I'm extremely healthy, and fit enough to play basketball at age 53.

I believe God wants me to be humbled in some way to achieve some level of Karmic balance. So God has decided that the one and only professional sports team that I love will never be successful. The Wizards will find a way to be bad for as long as I live. It is the cross I must bear.

All things considered, I guess I can't complain. It's a fair tradeoff. But I'm sorry for the rest of you Wizards fans who have suffered for these last 47 years. Hang in there. I probably have about 40 years to go. After that, the curse will be lifted and the Wizards will be free to win again.

Nate, you are a stitch!! & a lucky fellow to boot -- good for you!

payitforward · Post #9 » by **payitforward** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 12:32 am

I'm 83 not 53, but like nate I too live a charmed life. Like him, as well, I have been married for 30+ years, though in my case, admittedly, it took 3 tries!

Between my wife & me, we have 5 brilliant kids (at least 2 of whom are older than you, nate) & 7 brilliant grandkids.

Like nate, I get along with my extended family -- including my first two wives, believe it or not! In fact, I often remark that "you can get into this family, but once in you can't get out!" I even get along with the children of the daughter of my first wife & her second husband -- who was, btw, my college roommate!

I've lived all over the world, made more than enough money, written lots of books & even seen them reviewed positively!

Now, here's the thing, I'd say that everyone is humbled in life in one sense or another -- usually more than once. &, to be sure, the Wizards have a burden! Then again, it may be that not even God can have everything he wants. After all, this team is rebuilding with concentration, intelligence, effort, & maybe even -- at least based on hints if no more yet -- with success. Some day.

in which case, nate, perhaps the God that humbles us now will choose to raise us up! I'm holding out for that, & if I don't have the 40 more years that I hope you do have, I may well have 10 more! In which case, who knows, I may see glory! Or the Wizards may!

May it be so!

AFM · Post #10 » by **AFM** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 12:39 am

I saw your interview on YouTube PIF, I think you have at least 20 years left (I’m neither a doctor nor a psychic)

closg00 · Post #11 » by **closg00** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 1:42 am

Hard to predict this far in-advance, we’re just getting started with foundational pieces Alex/Tre/KyShawn + 22026 draft picks.

doclinkin · Post #12 » by **doclinkin** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 1:53 am

AFM wrote:I saw your interview on YouTube PIF, I think you have at least 20 years left (I’m neither a doctor nor a psychic)

Only if I can keep him from stepping into traffic when the Wiz miss out on a draft pick.

PaulinVA · Post #13 » by **PaulinVA** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:10 am

nate33 wrote:...I probably have about 40 years to go. After that, the curse will be lifted and the Wizards will be free to win again.

Should we start a poll to ponder how many pages that Avdija trade thread will be by then?

long suffrin' boulez fan · Post #14 » by **long suffrin' boulez fan** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:18 am

nate33 wrote:I live a charmed life. I'm happy. I've been happily married for 30 years. I have 3 wonderful, brilliant kids who are doing well at college. I get along with my extended family and in-laws. I'm self-employed, with no boss, making more money than I need. I have no debt. I'm extremely healthy, and fit enough to play basketball at age 53.

I believe God wants me to be humbled in some way to achieve some level of Karmic balance. So God has decided that the one and only professional sports team that I love will never be successful. The Wizards will find a way to be bad for as long as I live. It is the cross I must bear.

All things considered, I guess I can't complain. It's a fair tradeoff. But I'm sorry for the rest of you Wizards fans who have suffered for these last 47 years. Hang in there. I probably have about 40 years to go. After that, the curse will be lifted and the Wizards will be free to win again.

Are you from DC originally Nate? If not, how’d you become a Bullets fan?

payitforward · Post #15 » by **payitforward** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:39 am

PaulinVA wrote:
nate33 wrote:...I probably have about 40 years to go. After that, the curse will be lifted and the Wizards will be free to win again.

Should we start a poll to ponder how many pages that Avdija trade thread will be by then?

!!
roflol

payitforward · Post #16 » by **payitforward** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 2:44 am

closg00 wrote:Hard to predict this far in-advance, we’re just getting started with foundational pieces Alex/Tre/KyShawn + 22026 draft picks.

Above all, without any idea of who we'll get in the '26 draft, it's really impossible to make a meaningful prediction.

Post #17 » by **nate33** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 3:12 am

long suffrin' boulez fan wrote:
nate33 wrote:I live a charmed life. I'm happy. I've been happily married for 30 years. I have 3 wonderful, brilliant kids who are doing well at college. I get along with my extended family and in-laws. I'm self-employed, with no boss, making more money than I need. I have no debt. I'm extremely healthy, and fit enough to play basketball at age 53.

I believe God wants me to be humbled in some way to achieve some level of Karmic balance. So God has decided that the one and only professional sports team that I love will never be successful. The Wizards will find a way to be bad for as long as I live. It is the cross I must bear.

All things considered, I guess I can't complain. It's a fair tradeoff. But I'm sorry for the rest of you Wizards fans who have suffered for these last 47 years. Hang in there. I probably have about 40 years to go. After that, the curse will be lifted and the Wizards will be free to win again.

Are you from DC originally Nate? If not, how’d you become a Bullets fan?

Born and raised in PG County. Near Greenbelt.

Despy · Post #18 » by **Despy** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 3:38 am

eh if you are a fan of Washington area teams you got two championships in 18/19

Post #19 » by **nate33** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 4:19 am

Despy wrote:eh if you are a fan of Washington area teams you got two championships in 18/19

I moved away in 2005. I was gone before the Nationals played their first game. And I stopped caring about the Redskins around that time. One can take only so many years of Dan Snyder. I was never a hockey fan.

PaulinVA · Post #20 » by **PaulinVA** » Wed Nov 12, 2025 4:25 am

nate33 wrote:
long suffrin' boulez fan wrote:
nate33 wrote:I live a charmed life. I'm happy. I've been happily married for 30 years. I have 3 wonderful, brilliant kids who are doing well at college. I get along with my extended family and in-laws. I'm self-employed, with no boss, making more money than I need. I have no debt. I'm extremely healthy, and fit enough to play basketball at age 53.

I believe God wants me to be humbled in some way to achieve some level of Karmic balance. So God has decided that the one and only professional sports team that I love will never be successful. The Wizards will find a way to be bad for as long as I live. It is the cross I must bear.

All things considered, I guess I can't complain. It's a fair tradeoff. But I'm sorry for the rest of you Wizards fans who have suffered for these last 47 years. Hang in there. I probably have about 40 years to go. After that, the curse will be lifted and the Wizards will be free to win again.

Are you from DC originally Nate? If not, how’d you become a Bullets fan?

Born and raised in PG County. Near Greenbelt.

I grew up in Greenbelt. Eleanor Roosevelt HS, then U MD College Park.

:rock:

2026-27, do the Wiz make the playoffs?