The strangest normal season in NBA history officially ended Friday, four months after his intention. The season began with the league offside with China after a tweet from Rockets general manager Daryl Morey to help the Hong Kong protesters, and that was just the beginning. Former commissioner David Stern, a giant in league history, died on January 1; less than a month later, Kobe Bryant died in a helicopter crash. Forget about the games: it was the most culturally important celebrity death from Princess Diana or Michael Jackson. Your loss will be felt in the game for years to come.
And then, of course, as the rest of the society would, the NBA closed on March 11 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It is the first primary sports league to interrupt the game after a positive check-up and is among the first in the United States (along with NWSL, MLS and WNBA) to effectively reboot into a bubble.
With all this in the background, it’s simple that genuine basketball has been played and continues to be played. Now that the normal season is over, here are the definitive notes for all 30 teams. These ratings are largely based on the team’s expectations before the season, and some attention is also paid to how they are implemented after occasions during the 2019-2020 season.
With Trae Young, an emerging star at the head of a young core, the Hawks were supposed to be next to the Eastern Conference. But his season went wrong when the talented third year John Collins fulfilled a 25-game suspension for a positive PED test. Rookies De’Andre Hunter and Cam Reddish showed lightning, but did not stand out. Apart from Young, who was An All-Star in his season at the moment, there is no explanation for why to log in to see this team.
Young groups deserve time to develop, but the Hawks were looking to win many more games than this year. They intended to take some other steps towards the playoffs and finished with the second-worst East record at 20-47.
Grade: F
The Celtics lost Kyrie Irving and Al Horford to the loose agency, replacing Irving with Kemba Walker. Walker was right in his first season in Boston, being named all-Star starter and offering the kind of solid leadership Irving never had in that position in his two seasons with the team.
But it was Jayson Tatum’s emergence as a star that explained the Celtics season. Tatum, Jaylen Brown, Gordon Hayward and Marcus Smart are one of the toughest defensive perimeter sets in the league, and Tatum has established itself as a constant first choice in the offense. He’ll be the face of the franchise in the years to come.
The loss of Horford and, to a lesser extent, Aron Baynes a vital component of the advantage zone. Loose agent’s signer Enes Kanter doesn’t bring what he did defensively. But despite some saves and openings, the Celtics ended up right where they were supposed to be, third in the Eastern Conference with a genuine chance of making a run.
Category B
The Nets signed Kevin Durant knowing full well that he would miss the whole season to rehabilitate his torn Achilles. His other principal signing, Kyrie Irving, played only 20 games while battling a shoulder injury that forced him to go through surgery.
With their two superstars almost offstage, the Nets were disjointed. They were caught between two identities: the disadvantaged disjointed who made the playoffs last season led Caris LeVert, Jarrett Allen and Spencer Dinwiddie, and the newly arrived star trio from Durant, Irving and DeAndre Jordan. That tension eventually led head coach Kenny Atkinson and the team to component tactics some time before half-time.
In the bubble, the Nets were one of the funniest teams. With Durant and Irving still in rehab and Jordan and Dinwiddie tested positive for COVID-19, the Nets team that gave the impression on the bubble was necessarily a G League team. They were 5-3, adding unexpected victories over the Bucks and Clippers and a narrow loss to the Blazers in the regular season finale. They don’t have much luck against the Raptors in the playoffs, however, interim head coach Jacque Vaughn earned a chance in the standing position.
Quality: C
Charlotte has played in the playoffs only three times since 2004-05 (her first season with the Bobcats), and has been no closer to returning this year. The Hornets lost All-Star baseman Kemba Walker, who went to the Celtics as a loose agent, and replaced him with Terry Rozier, who had a false but obviously degraded year.
If Charlotte has one thing to suspend this season, it’s the appearance of a sophomore consistent goalkeeper with Devonte ‘Graham. Graham, a second-round pick in 2018 and who was slightly an NBA rotation player in his rookie season, came out of nowhere to lead the team by scoring 18.2 game-consistent problems while shooting 37.3% from 3 issues and averaging 7.5. passes according to the game.
The Hornets weren’t the worst team in the league. In fact, they ended up with a higher winning percentage than the Washington Wizards, one of the invited groups in the bubble. But they still don’t feel any closer to building anything real.
Grade: D
In any case, the 2019-20 Bulls were a disaster. After signing veteran Thaddeus Young and baseman Tomas Satoransky to a relaxed agency, Chicago seemed about to return, if not to disagree, at least to competition and respectability. The Bulls recruited head coach Jim Boylen despite a difficult first season for Fred Hoiberg, and he said all the smart things about learning that first career in his first head education job. They opened the education camp with the purpose of returning to the playoffs for the first time since they switched to Jimmy Butler in 2017.
Things happened quickly. They started 6-14 and then suffered two separate streaks of six and eight games. Zach LaVine braids a rivalry with Boylen for his role, and the once-promising young men, Wendell Carter Jr. and Lauri Markkanen, have gone backwards. The only bright spot overall chose Coby White, who eventually joined the starting lineup and proved to be a prolific scorer. The Bulls finished 22-43.
On the plus side, the disappointing season has led to a long-awaited organizational reorganization. Shortly after the end of the season, the Bulls fired veteran general manager Gar Forman and reassigned Vice President John Paxson to an advisory role. Instead, they hired Arturas Karnisovas, a reputable Executive of the Nuggets, as vice president of basketball operations, and former Sixers executive Marc Eversley as general manager. Boylen was also fired on Friday and is expected to appoint a new head coach in the coming months. The long race looks better, but they had to hit the back of a rock to get there.
Grade: F
For the time being, a year after LeBron James left, the Cavs were caught between reconstruction and the quest to compete, with little luck in both directions. Champions Kevin Love and Tristan Thompson are still on the list, however, young escorts Collin Sexton and Darius Garland have emerged, none of whom seem to be certain to be a long-term star.
Cleveland finished with the second-worst NBA record at 19-46 and also experienced many off-field failures. At one point, Love’s explosion in control and preference for exchange was made public. His unexpected low-season hiring of former Michigan coach John Beilein temporarily failed: he lost the locker room after using the word “thugs” while intending to say “ffining” in a speech at the cinema, and resigned at the All-Star Break after not fully adapting to the school game, where he was one of the ultimate successful learners.
The front workplace has replaced Beilein, J.B. Bickerstaff, the permanent head coach, but the Cavs do not yet have strong leadership. Sexton and Garland are quite young players, but neither are the cornerstone of the franchise. They still have to exchange love at some point. There is much to do and a long way to go before the Cavs are applicable again.
Quality: F
The mavericks’ first year of basketball without Dirk Nowitzki was largely successful. Luka Doncic’s superstar prospect was dazzling in his rookie season, however, at the time of the year he was even better, fitting with a valid MVP candidate. And Kristaps Porzingis, in his first game since February 2018, first struggled to get out of a torn anterior cruciate ligament, but has since settled in his role as Doncic’s star of the moment.
As usual, Rick Carlisle has benefited greatly from the disappointing role-playing players such as Maxi Kleiber, Tim Hardaway Jr. and Dorian Finney-Smith. Dallas had the most productive offense in the league, but only the 18th defense and wasted many of the tight games he has won. They finished with the seventh seed in the Western Conference, their first playoff appearance since 2016.
Category B-
After their disappointing defeat in last year’s playoff second, the Nuggets returned stronger, with the league’s fifth-best offense and an MVP nominee for Nikola Jokic. They finished with the third best record in the West despite a 3-5 bubble record and the need to get two of their victories.
The off-season pick-up Jerami Grant provided power in the front area, while base players Jokic, Jamal Murray, Will Barton and Paul Millsap had smart years. The revelation Michael Porter Jr., who missed his entire rookie season due to a back injury and succeeded or failed this season before closing, however, exploded in the bubble and established himself as a valid starter in a competing team. The Nuggets will hurt the playoffs.
Quality: B
Like the Hornets, the Pistons are a team in limbo, the worst absolute team in the league, but on an apparent path to relevance. Aside from the resurgence of Derrick Rose as the sixth player and the emergence of Christian Wood ahead, there’s something to write about with this team. Blake Griffin underwent knee surgery in January and the team transferred Andre Drummond to Cleveland on the deadline.
The Pistons don’t have an apparent first-rate young ability to build, Griffin has apparently surpassed his peak. They are still at the beginning of a reconstruction that has noticed them finish 20-46 this season. During the shutdown, they hired Troy Weaver, a former Thunder executive, to lead basketball operations. He has a big push to make Detroit basketball a national fear again.
Grade: D
Although Kevin Durant went to Brooklyn, Klay Thompson was absent all year round with an anterior cruciate ligament torn in the 2019 Finals and Andre Iguodala was traded to Memphis, the Warriors still expected to be a playoff team in their first season on the new Chase Center logo. Stephen Curry broke his hand and missed the season maximum, returning only for one game before closing. Without the cornerstones of their dynasty, they finished with the NBA’s worst record at 15-50.
Even though Draymond Green was still playing, the Warriors were functionally a G League team. Most of the year he was faithful to the progression of young people such as Ky Bowman and Eric Paschall. The Warriors’ maximum life movement in the last off-season was to sign and trade for baseman D’Angelo Russell. Russell was a clumsy Warriors pick and was redeemed by the deadline to Minnesota by the 2014 Senior No. 1 team, Andrew Wiggins, and a first-round pick among the 3 most sensitive. 2021. Wiggins played relatively well after arriving at Golden State, however, he did not play enough games to give any indication of his ability to keep the promise in his new home that he never complied with the Timberwolves.
Since the Warriors lacked so many stars and were necessarily competitive for a season, it’s to estimate their year. It was a sadness compared to their years of name fight, however, they have the most productive chance of winning the first overall pick in this year’s draft lottery and are expected to fight next year with healthy Curry and Thompson. It was just a gap year.
Grade: incomplete
Rockets general manager Daryl Morey did one of the most shocking jobs of the 2019 offse9 by treating Chris Paul for Russell Westbrook. The showdown between Westbrook and James Harden was first and for all, but they won enough games at the start of the season to stay in the middle of the Western Conference playoff race, and Harden hosted another MVP season.
The Rockets team took off after the industry deadline when Morey sent the Clint Capela media to Atlanta, added Minnesota ahead of Robert Covington and transferred P.J. Tucker to the full-time starting half-time. This mid-season turmoil unlocked Westbrook, who without delay began to look much more like him. It’s one of the league’s most intriguing bands before the playoffs.
Category B
Another year forged for a franchise that remains strong. The Pacers were without All-Star escort Victor Oladipo for the season, as he continued with a quad bike injury he suffered last year, but did not fall. As Nate McMillan’s groups do every year, they have outdone themselves, overcoming Oladipo’s injury to end the fourth eastern conference seed.
Domantas Sabonis was an All-Star for the first time, and his spouse in the attack zone, Myles Turner, also had a false year. The star, of course, was T.J. Warren, who opened all 8 games with 53-point functionality opposite the Philadelphia 76ers and continued to soften the resumption.
Pacers are deep, talented and well trained. You can count on them to make a playoff appearance and a total of wins in the mid-1940s each year, regardless of injuries. This year is no exception.
Category B
After a successful off-season, the Clippers’ season began irregularly. Paul George missed the beginning of the year by rehabilitating two shoulder surgeries, and the team continued to hold Kawhi Leonard back to back. Despite all that, the Clippers were as smart as everyone thought, with the second best offense and fifth best defense in the league and a deep distribution of quality players like Lou Williams, Montrezl Harrell and Patrick Beverley around George. and Leonard.
The Clippers took a few steps during the year, traded Maurice Harkless to the Knicks for Marcus Morris Sr. on the deadline, and signed Reggie Jackson to the procurement market. Because of all this disorder, they don’t have the continuity that the other contenders have. But you could say it’s the league’s top-talented team and will be one of the favorites to win the championship.
Quality: A-
How does LeBron James recover after losing his first playoff since 2005? Helping create a task for Anthony Davis. Despite an incoherent cast, those two were the deadliest duo in the league. James took full credit for a prolonged and insa frequent low season and returned here more locked up than he has been in years. He’ll probably be the MVP finalist, which is crazy in Grade 17. Davis has a decent chance of winning defensive player of the year.
Frank Vogel, the Lakers’ third team for a head coach after hitting Monty Williams and Tyronn Lue, turned out to be the right recruiter when the Lakers put together the NBA’s third-best defense and secured the top. seed in the Western Conference easily. It’s hard to see the Lakers as something still a big fortune this year, as they enter the playoffs as one of the favorites.
Grade A
Outside Phoenix, no team has exceeded their expectations more than Memphis. The overall selection of the moment, Ja Morant, already looks like a long-term All-Star and is assured to beat rookie of the year, and rookie Brandon Clarke without productive delay. First-year head coach Taylor Jenkins turned out to be a great strater. At the end of the season, the Grizzlies had a 3.5-game lead for last place in the Western playoffs, something no one saw coming at the beginning of the year.
In the bubble, the Grizzlies lost Jaren Jackson Jr. to a knee injury and finished 2-6 in qualifying games before wasting the Trail Blazers in the inning game. It was a disappointing ending for what was a fantastic year in a different way. Grizzlies enthusiasts have something to get excited about.
Quality: B
After missing the playoffs last season, Pat Riley reorganized, running for a signing and industry for Jimmy Butler. Butler proved perfectly adapted to the so-called “heat culture,” taking the team to both ends of the frame as he has done with his career. The emergence of Bam Adebayo’s average third year also contributed greatly to miami’s resurgence, as did a mid-season industry for Andre Iguodala.
Further down the list, the Heat also had some victories. Sophomore Jan Robinson, one of the league’s top damaging shooters, and rookies Tyler Herro and Kendrick Nunn impressed. Miami finished fifth in the Eastern Conference and is an intriguing selection of black horses to make a deep playoff race.
Quality: B
The Bucks recovered from their disappointing defeat in the Eastern Conference final against the Raptors last season and have been even better this year. Even after spending 3-5 in the bubble, they finished the normal season with the NBA record, league defense and highest net score (plus-9.4).
Giannis Antetokounmpo is close to being blocked from repeating as league MVP after having a better year than his 2018-19 MVP campaign. You can also win the Defensive Player of the Year award. Khris Middleton has had a back-to-back All-Star season and Brook Lopez is an unlikely defensive candidate. The cast is deep, even after wasting Malcolm Brogdon on a loose signature last summer.
Because they failed in the playoffs last year, and because Antetokounmpo, the summer of 2021, firm and loose, looms over the entire league, they are no longer an elegant selection to win the title. But it’s hard to argue about what they’ve done so far this season.
Grade A
With the exception of their playoff appearance in 2017-18, the Timberwolves have been commonly anonymous for nearly two decades. There’s an explanation for why to wait this year: the new president of basketball operations, Gersson Rosas, brought with him a wonderful reputation for his time in the Rockets’ main office, and they still had one of the game’s top wonderful talents at Karl-Anthony Towns. But Towns missed 29 games due to injuries and Minnesota, one of the two Western Conference groups (the other being the Warriors), was not invited to resume.
On the industry deadline, Rosas gave him the first selection of 2014, Andrew Wiggins, to the Warriors for Towns’ close friend D’Angelo Russell, but they played in combination only once before COVID-19 prematurely ended their season. It remains to be noted what this couple will look like, but it will be another lost year in Minnesota.
Quality: D
The Pelicans had one of the highest-profile off-seasons in the league in 2019. They lost superstar Anthony Davis, who had sought an industry for much of the year, but discovered up-and-coming teenagers Lonzo Ball, Brandon Ingram and Josh Hart at the Lakers. ‘industry. The arrival of Zion Williamson, the first overall choice, the rookie since LeBron James, has made him one of the liveliest groups in the league.
All of that came to an end when Williamson underwent pre-season knee surgery that prevented him from leaving until January. New Orleans began the season 7-23, adding a streak of 13 games lost in November and December, despite Ingram’s escape season and his first All-Star selection in his career. The team stepped up a lot once Williamson made its debut; he was as smart as advertised before the end of the season, and the Pelicans presented an unforeseen challenge to the Western Conference playoffs. If I’d been healthy all year, they might as well have made it.
The Pelicans fell flat into the bubble with Williamson in a minute limit. They have become the first West Conference team withdrawn from the playoff contest in the resumption. Head coach Alvin Gentry fired shortly thereafter. It was a disappointing end to a disappointing year, briefly interrupted by Williamson’s electric play in February and March.
Quality: D
Another year of loss and dysfunction in New York without much positive to remember. After beating Kyrie Irving and Kevin Durant at the loose agency, the Knicks signed an impressive number of hard forwards (Taj Gibson, Bobby Portis, Julius Randle, Marcus Morris Sr.). Recent lottery selections Kevin Knox II and Frank Ntilikina have not evolved as expected, middle-year intermission Mitchell Robinson has been promising.
The Knicks fired head coach David Fizdale after starting the season 4-18, selling Mike Miller for the rest of the season. The team played better with Miller, but has not yet shown the kind of long-term improvement he expects to see on a team with so many lottery options. In February, team president Steve Mills was fired and replaced by tough CAA agent Leon Rose, who hired Tom Thibodeau as head coach in July.
We hope the new regime will bring stability, but how much can you count on as long as James Dolan owns the team? The Knicks, in addition to being a sadness in the field, had some public relations shame, adding an enmity between Dolan and Spike Lee, the only Knicks fan who seemed to alienate. This requires a specific amount of incompetence.
Quality: F
Last summer, it was too simple to get stuck in the length of Chris Paul’s contract and he remains one of the NBA’s elite shipowners. Paul arrived from Houston to Oklahoma City as a component of Russell Westbrook’s shocking box office successes industry, just days after the team brought Paul George to the Clippers for veteran Danilo Gallinari, promising young baseman Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and several long-running recruits. Peaks.
Perhaps general manager Sam Presti sought to blow him up and rebuild it from scratch, however, between Paul, Gallinari and Steven Adams, the Thunder had too many more sensitive headlines to be as bad as they were looking for. They tried to convince Paul, but that big contract made him impossible, so they had to settle for him having an All-NBA season and proved to be the best mentor for Gilgeous-Alexander. This is not a bad backup plan.
The Thunder finished fifth in the Western Conference and will face the Rockets in the first circular of the playoffs. It doesn’t matter if they don’t have a first-run selection of circular this year, because they have so many possible long-term options on George and Westbrook’s exchanges. Presti has achieved the most productive of both worlds: they are well prepared for the long term with young talents and possible possible options while still being competitive in the present.
Quality: B
The Magic reached the playoffs for the time in a row, but lost a valuable season as it approached its most prized young player, Jonathan Isaac. Isaac missed much of the season due to a knee injury, then returned and looked stunning in the bubble before suffering an anterior cruciate ligament tear that will likely leave him out next season.
One smart thing that came out of this Magic season was the rebirth of Markelle Fultz, the 2017 number one team who suffered a shoulder injury in Philadelphia before being traded to Orlando. Sometimes he looked less like a functional NBA player. Another bright spot was Nikola Vucevic. The season was not a general loss, however, Isaac’s injury is pushing back the franchise enormously.
Grade: C
Sixers general manager Elton Brand may have outperformed himself with Al Horford’s signals in the off-season. Horford had caused disruption to Joel Embiid when the Sixers and Celtics hit the playoffs in 2018, and would tell him it would weaken his biggest department rival. But Horford and Embiid are clumsy ones who have compatibility on the field, as Embiid and Ben Simmons remain.
The Sixers are very talented, however, between injuries (Embiid and Simmons wasted their time) and the imperfect have compatibility between their two stars, they still don’t have the real contenders they expect to be. Simmons will now miss the playoffs due to a knee injury, and assuming they lose to the Celtics in the first round, head coach Brett Brown will most likely be fired. Embiid and Simmons don’t necessarily want to be apart, however this season has shown that anything has to be replaced in Philadelphia.
Quality: C
The greatest wonder of the season. Years of disarray and defeat have made the Suns a major league-wide breakthrough despite some talented players, namely Devin Booker, Deandre Ayton and Mikal Bridges. Last summer, they traded for the Boston Aron Baynes and recruited veteran baseman Ricky Rubio. They also hired Monty Williams as head coach, and temporarily made the Suns play harder than they had in years.
After a clever start, his momentum stopped when Ayton, the number one draft pick, failed a PED control and met a 25-game suspension. Several injuries during the year also put them behind the corner at the back of the Competitive Western Conference playoff race.
No one has enjoyed the new beginning in the bubble more than the Suns. Sensational Booker and Phoenix the only undefees of team in all 8 games. The Suns fell just before the entry round for the eighth seed. But for the first time in a long time, it looks like they’re starting to build something convincing.
Quality: B
An impressive bubble playoff race with a newly healthy advantage zone and a Damian Lillard out of this global in what disappointing regular season run before the closing for the Blazers, new in 2019 with the West. Conference ends.
In the first two months of the season, Portland lost starting ahead of Zach Collins with a shoulder injury and starting little ahead of Rodney Hood with an Achilles break. These injuries, as well as the continued absence of beginner corner Jusuf Nurkic, actually played a role in his disappointing record, but their biggest challenge is that they may not protect anyone.
The acquisition of Hassan Whiteside’s off-season commercials led the league to the blockades, but proved to be a drag on this end of the track, and the loose officers of the bargains Anthony Tolliver and Mario Hezonja proved to be the ultimate commonly in playable. The collection of the industry deadline, Trevor Ariza, helped a little to that end, but the Blazers during the season-long peak just weren’t as good.
The positive: Lillard has been impressive all year round, building more of its position among the most productive players in the league. What he did in the bubble was no coincidence: he was so smart all year round. The resurrection of Carmelo Anthony’s career after he appeared to have vanished is also a story of well-being. And Nurkic has been wonderful since he returned to the court in the bubble.
In the end, the Blazers made it to the playoffs, so the season is nevertheless a success. But the road wasn’t pretty.
Quality: C
For the time being year in a row, Sacramento at least competitive, which is more than can be said of the peak seasons of the last decade. The Kings were betting their season-high produce basketball in March when the league took a break, driven by De’Aaron Fox, who still looks like a long-running All-Star.
But Fox’s brilliance isn’t enough. Buddy Hield dissatisfied with his year-round role, Marvin Bagley III lost time due to injuries and the team ended with the 13th worst offense and the 12th worst NBA defense. They made the cut to be invited to the reboot, but temporarily got out of hand, and the team’s president, Vlade Divac, and assistant general manager, Peja Stojakovic, resigned shortly thereafter, as a result of a long culture of disorder in Sacramento.
Grade: D
Twenty-two years after Tim Duncan’s NBA season, the Spurs nevertheless missed the playoffs, finishing one of the wonderful races in the history of the sport. With DeMar DeRozan and LaMarcus Aldridge at the end of the group, San Antonio simply didn’t have the most productive ability to compete.
That said, young guards Derrick White, Dejounte Murray and Lonnie Walker IV have had years and seem to be a forged basis for the future. The Spurs will be back.
Quality: C-
Most of wasting the Protective Finals MVP on loose firm would be a big step backwards. But the Raptors, who had just won the first championship in franchise history, regrouped after Kawhi Leonard’s departure and returned with the same force.
Toronto’s intensity and versatility were essential to facing Leonard’s defeat. Because of his cargo control plan, the rest of this organization enjoyed it a lot and played good luck without it last year. So when he left, they knew what to do and how to adapt, because they had already done it. Pascal Siakam took another big step forward after winning the top player ahead last season, gently sliding into Leonard’s role as the wing’s top scorer and becoming the first All-Star team of his career. OG Anunoby, who missed last year’s playoffs, has recovered this year as a blocky defender.
Add to the smart years he spent with Siakam’s other All-Stars, Kyle Lowry, and wonderful veterans Serge Ibaka and Marc Gasol, as well as role-playing players Fred VanVleet and Norman Powell and the emergence of uneftaal recruits Matt Thomas and Terence Davis, and that’s almost certainty. that Nick Nurse will take over the coach of the year at home. It would be no wonder Toronto won the East or even repeated as champions.
Grade A
Aside from the fact that Rudy Gobert’s positive COVID-19 check that caused the NBA season to be suspended on March 11 came back positive. If I hadn’t, someone else would have done it and the end result would have been the same.
On the sidelines, Jazz has performed below expectations this season. His off-season industry for Mike Conley seemed like a transparent improvement for the base, however, he struggled for much of the year. His other lead signatory, Bojan Bogdanovic, is out of the season because of a wrist injury. Gobert and Donovan Mitchell have had All-Star seasons, however, Jazz has been inconsistent all year round and now turns out to be heading for an early playoff outing.
Category B-
A year of Bradley Beal’s career and an escape season ahead of Davis Bertans were not enough to save a Team of the Wizards that was vastly outperformed on the maximum nights. With John Wall without the entire season to rehabilitate a torn Achilles tendon, Beal had to keep up with himself night after night. He insists he doesn’t need an exchange, however, given the sadness of Washington’s future, rumors have never dissipated.
Beal and Bertans, who are in a position for a big build this low season, opted to get out of the bubble, where the Wizards finished 1-7, temporarily ending their narrow hopes of a place in the playoffs without their two most productive players. Let’s hope Wall is healthy next year and he and Beal can go out together again.
Grade: D
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