Hooped Up

Slumping Nick Young struggles to find a place with the new-look Washington Wizards
Nick Young is starting to feel left behind. A Halloween mask of Gilbert Arenas hangs in his locker room stall, a symbol of the friend and mentor who has been banished for the remainder of the season. His closest friend on the team, Dominic McGuire, is no longer sitting two stalls down after McGuire was traded to Sacramento.

And Andray Blatche and JaVale McGee — who used to share spots near Young on the bench, hoping for more playing time — have suddenly moved into prominent roles as starters. Young, however, continues to sit and ponder his place with the team as the Wizards prepare to host the Houston Rockets on Tuesday.

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Another van glorious season of NBA basketball is about to begin and Hooped Up does a quick and dirty preview of all 30 clubs.

When healthy, the trio of Gilbert Arenas, Caron Butler and Antawn Jamison is deadly! But make no mistake, the one ingredient the Wizards need in their wins cake is the $111 million dollar man known as the Hibachi. Read More »

Ironically enough, Andray Blatche is having a season ending celebration this Sunday, April 12th, at “Josephine UltraChic Lounge“ in DC. What so ironic about that you say Guv’nor? Well two things.

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Gilbert Arenas will have some company for the next 2- 4 weeks in the form of Andray Blatche. Today is was announced that Blatche will be out of the Wizards line-up for two to four weeks because of a strained knee suffered in the fourth quarter of Monday’s 103-87 loss to the Phoenix Suns after he was pushed to the floor by Shaquille O’Neal with 4:11 remaining in the contest.

Blatche has averaged 10.1 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.0 blocks in 44 games for the terrible 08-09 edition of the Wiz.

Unless this is just a bad dream, the Wizards can’t wait to see all those NBA lottery balls with Wizard logos on them.  All 100 million of them at this rate.

Via Press Release