🏀 Wes Unseld Jr. is no longer the Wizards' head coach. I do hope Jordan Poole is next: both have contributed greatly to Washington becoming the worst team in the NBA, having lost at home to both of the other worst-team contenders recently.

Some recent additions were a pleasant surprise, though.

🏀 And the award for the most poetic basketball headline goest to The Washington Post: “Wizards cast hopeful look into mirror of future, see Thunder looking back”.

At least they are only the second-worst team in the NBA this season, topped only by the worst-ever team in the league’s history.

🏀 Living two blocks down from the Capital One Arena, I am completely biased in thinking that the plan to move the Wizards and the Caps to Potomac Yard is bonkers. The slightly less biased Tyler Cowen shares my opinion, and for the same reasons. For what it’s worth, the summer spike in crime was just that — a spike — and with the winter months came the Downtown Holiday Market and 2+ patrol units per block, so the neighborhood is as safe as could be.

Side note: Tyler’s commenters underestimate how many visitors to DC go to a Wizards game just to have their selfie taken with the court as a backdrop. The Capitols may be another matter — they are actually good — but it always seemed to me that passers by account for a large chunk of the Wizards' audience.

🏀 You know it’s bad when they have to send the mascot out to the nosebleed seats to animate the crowd. A 13-point differential at the end was too generous to the Wizards.

🏀 Two weeks in, and the Nuggets are at 7–1, the Wizards at 1–5. So no, I wasn’t joking.

🏀 This was… better than expected! Though still horrible defense.

🏀 The best pass in NBA history happened so fast that the camera, the commentators, and most of the audience completely missed it.

🏀 Funny that my two teams — the Nuggets because of Jokić, the Wizards because, well, DC — are respectively this seasons best and worst of the NBA. And when I say the worst, I mean truly horrible. I don’t expect it to be fun, but let’s hope that it will at least be interesting!

🏀 Basketball is back! Nuggets on the West coast, Wizards on the East, popcorn at the ready.