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To The Victor, Goes The Jokes
The Wizards need to win more often. Not only for their mental well-being, but also for the sake of comic relief. Needless to say, the Wizards haven't had much to laugh about this season, but after their 108-88 win over New Jersey, the locker room was filled with jokes. As reporters entered the locker room after an impressive, 20-point win road against a team with a winning record, inactive forward Oleksiy Pecherov was slouched back...Please click on the title to continue reading this entry.
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The NBA Is a Better, More Fun Place When the Wizards Win
SLAM Online — ... through the rest of the League; LeBron and the summer of ‘10; and the wholly depressing Starbury fiasco in New York. One thing we’ve been sorely lacking is comedic relief from the crew in Washington, mostly because they’ve been too miserable on and off the court to provide it. Last night, though, things took a turn for the better, as the Wizards got a rare win. They then followed it up with their trademark locker-room antics. From the Washington Post: [Nick Young] put on a plaid red shirt and asked Dominic ...

Wizards 108, Nets 88
Bullets Forever — ... Lopez, Greg Oden, Andrew Bynum, and Joakim Noah is going to give us an idea of where he stands in relation to some of the other good, young big men in the NBA. He held his own against Brook tonight, but he's going to need to take it to another level against Oden and Bynum. -Jake Love that Vince Carter went back to his shot-jacking, low-efficiency ways.  I did like the way Devin Harris looked though.  If only we kept him in 04. -PM Winning cures all ills. -Jake

Quick Wizards-Nets Recap: Who Needs The Lil' General When You Have Dee Brown?
Truth About It - Washington Wizards Blog — ... I had to have that approach." -DeShawn Stevenson Darius Songaila then jumped in to give Pecherov a hard time. "You've played 35 minutes (actually 36) and guess how many assists you have," Songaila asked while forming his fingers into a circle. "Zero. Zero in 35 minutes." Pecherov and Songaila then got into a deep conversation in Russian. Caron Butler emerged from the shower and said, "They talking about us, y'all." [Locker Room Sillies via Wizards ...

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