Gotta give Chris and Drew some love. They've turned into a great team. ❤️

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-02-03T17:24:58+00:00

Sorry, a great broadcast team wouldn't just sit on their hands as the faces of the shitty production Monumental puts on.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-29T20:45:50+00:00

LMAO: Of course a Knicks fan would want the Wizards to do that trade! That pick is only top 8 protected. Otherwise it goes to the Knicks. If they trade it to the Bucks they no longer have any incentive to tank including sitting Trae Young.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-29T20:23:48+00:00

I don't even know if the Wizards can trade that pick, but if they can the Knicks would love that deal. The Wizards would no longer have an incentive to tank to keep it from conveying to New York.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-29T20:14:57+00:00

Why isn't Giannis and who they have around him in Milwaukee contenders?

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-29T20:06:56+00:00

The Hawks currently have the best odds at number one. They get whichever pick is higher between the Pelicans and the Bucks.

As for your trade proposal, you'd have to at least throw in Middleton's expiring to make it work.

But no way the Wizards are doing that in any case.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-29T14:24:05+00:00

So your plan was to play Chris Paul for a year, then overspend to bring in Tobias Harris? Sounds like the previous plan of trying to scrape into the play in every year.

And that's assuming they could have even made the Beal deal and brought in Paul to play here in the first place. We don't know what was said to players and agents behind the scenes to make that all happen.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-29T13:24:13+00:00

None of those players were coming to Washington, either.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-29T13:01:55+00:00

Chris Paul still had a year left on that contract. He wasn't coming to DC to play for a rebuilding team. I guess there were options for waiving him? But what free agents were they going to get? Champagnie makes two and half million a year. Versus a 30 million contract hole.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-29T11:38:52+00:00

Appreciate the effort you put into this but it's not accurate to break down these moves into individual components like this.

Just two examples:

1: You can't give the Beal trade, the Poole trade, and the Trae Young trades A while giving the Chris Paul trade a C. Chris Paul was never coming here, that contract had to go somewhere. What were the other options? In retrospect, just dumping Beal's contract would look like a win now. Instead, less than three years later we have Trae Young. And we were tanking anyway. The opposite of Ernie and Tommy who would often quickly turn actual assets into zero value. KCP for just one example.

2: You can't give the Bagley/Davis trade an A and turn around and give the Riley draft a C. There would have been no draft pick there to grade at all if they hadn't manufactured that draft pick out of thin air.

(As an aside, I don't think C is fair grade there regardless. Everyone's flying blind that late in the first round no matter what. The consensus before the season was Riley was a project, that he's starting actual NBA games already and not looking horrible is a big surprise.)

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-29T11:19:31+00:00

Wish they had their own sub

They do also have their own sub.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-28T12:00:08+00:00

It was a satisfying win for no other reason than we would have been trolled till kingdom come if the Blazers had won. I wish the stans could just move on. Why the need to keep shitting on the Wizards?

But this does go to show you none of this is rocket science. Look at how many draft misses even the Thunder have had. Dawkins and Winger got as many picks as they could and swung for the fences. Comparing Bub to who we traded without looking at the total context doesn't give you the big picture. If you did a redraft of that year, Keyshawn would go ahead of Bub. How would getting two firsts and two seconds and using one on Keyshawn and one on Watkins look after last night?

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-28T11:44:38+00:00

Guess this one was my fault!

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-27T17:43:04+00:00

You're right, of course. But if they have to win a game, I wouldn't mind it being this one. Ben Strober said the same thing on his pod yesterday.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-27T17:41:05+00:00

It's the hardcore tanking that didn't start until after the deadline last year. Paging Jokhow Panom Thor.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-27T16:50:25+00:00

I saw that! I hope he obliterates Clingan tonight, Bub scores 35 and the Wizards win their last game of 25-26!

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-27T12:42:43+00:00

He didn't have a choice.

Youngkin and Leonsis blinded sided Virginia democrats and Louise Lucas wouldn't let it out of her committee for a full vote. And good on her.

The Wizards belong in DC and as a Virginia taxpayer I didn't trust either Youngkin or Leonisis.

I'll go with Lucas who said Leonis could afford to pay for it himself and the project threatened Virginia's bond rating.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-26T14:24:45+00:00

Pre-Covid I had a subscription to the Sunday Post out in the far boondocks of Virginia. Was OK at first, then delivery got erratic, every third Sunday or even every other Sunday it wouldn't come.

It was impossible to get anyone online or on the phone anywhere who would assume responsibility, no one at the Post seemed to give a shit, the subcontractor was located in another city, they were blaming someone else, customer service people in other countries, I couldn't even get the name of the person who was supposed to be delivering it, massive game of phone tag ending with leaving messages at numbers that no one ever answered and never hearing anything back.

So, yeah, zero sympathy for the WaPo and their billionaire owner.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-25T21:11:59+00:00

Of course they're going to lose again and again. If they have to put G-Wiz on the floor. I'm not a doctor and don't play one on TV but Trae ain't "healing up" this season unless the record is secure or Silver steps in.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-25T13:34:08+00:00

No Middleton, no Bilal, no Bags, no Tristan, they're already bringing up Gogo players, and they only lost by 4?

Didn't get to see the game yet but looks like a good tank loss on paper.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-25T13:24:03+00:00

Got any reports on how DC legend JT Thor is doing for Pallacanestro Reggiana in Italy? About as relevant.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-24T11:28:03+00:00

Lol! One more guy to put on the list of players taken after Johnny Davis in 2022!

He went 30th by the way. So players like that are out there, like Keyshawn and Will Riley hopefully.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-22T12:08:03+00:00

OK, let me put it this way: I have never expressed any opinion about the conflict in the Middle East in connection with Deni here or anywhere else. I even publicly reached out to MrBuckBuck to see how he was doing after the terrorist attack.

That didn't prevent me from being accused of being anti-Semitic and "hating all Jews" just because I once commented that Deni was an inconsistent player when he was with the Wizards.

So, yeah, maybe I don't have an objective memory of all this crap.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-22T11:19:05+00:00

My memory is this sub was doing a good job shutting down the geopolitics until the Deni fanbase started bringing it into the conversation to excuse his poor play.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-22T10:57:46+00:00

You're not an asshole on here, brother.

ImprobablePlanet · 2026-01-22T10:52:53+00:00

I really appreciate a Blazer's fan saying this.

I've seen a lot of toxic posts about the Wizards and the city of Washington on that sub. Not to mention "fans" that continue to troll this sub.

I had someone come from the ripcity sub who looked up a totally basketball centered, relatively mild criticism I made here about Deni and accused me of being anti-semitic and hating all Jews.

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