Washington held Boston to 35 percent shooting from the field and 22 percent from distance. The Wizards beat the Celtics by five points on a night Kemba Walker didn’t play - but still! Smith went off again for 27 points on 18 shots, McRae scored 19, Thomas 17 and Brown Jr. contributed with 25 points, and Isaac Bonga (a guy traded to make the Anthony Davis to LA deal work,) scored 15. Smith scored 32 points on 15-of-24 shooting with eight assists and three steals off the bench. They crushed them by 14 points in the first of two Smith nights. The Wizards didn’t just beat the Nuggets, either. And McRae scored 29 on 14 field-goal attempts. In addition to him, Mahinmi - a once outcast, overpaid big - scored 25 points on 10-of-11 shooting. Yeah, that rookie from Lipscomb scored 28 on nine field goal attempts. The Wizards didn’t just beat the Heat, they crushed them by 18 points. In the 605 games and 9 seasons Beal has played with the Wizards, he has transformed into an incredible shooting guard who can play on and. The next-best scorers include: Second-year player Troy Brown Jr., who is scoring 14 points per game Garrison Mathews, an undrafted rookie from low-major DI Lipscomb, is scoring 13 points per game and Thomas, the once-superstar from the Celtics, is scoring nine points. Smith is a 31-year-old playing for his 11th NBA team. 58 pick in the 2014 draft who is already on his third team, excluding the year he played in Liga ACB for Boskonia. If you have no idea who McRae is, it’s because he was the No. Wall had the ball in his hands for more minutes per game than any player in the NBA from 2013-14 to 2018-19, per NBA Advanced Stats. The next-leading scorers after Beal are Jordan McRae at 22 points per game on just 40 percent shooting, and Ish Smith, who’s scored 21 points per game on an unreal 55 percent shooting with five assists. First-round rookie Rui Hachimura? Out since Dec. The team’s breakout stud Davis Bertans hasn’t played since Dec. Bradley Beal, the team’s best player, has missed the last three games to a leg injury. John Wall, the team’s highest-paid player, hasn’t played a game in more than a year. Wall: I don’t think we shoot as well as those guys from Golden State, but that’s all they do. The Wizards are the most joyous team in the NBA at a time they really shouldn’t be. The Wizards scored a net plus-2.3 points per 100 possessions with Wall and Beal on the hardwood.
A mixture of other assorted no-names have helped knock off the Heat and Nuggets, too, in a span of eight days. The Wizards have rolled out a starting lineup of Isaiah Thomas (yes, that one), Gary Payton II (no, not that one), Troy Brown Jr., someone named Johnathan Williams and Ian Mahinmi and beaten the Celtics. The January Washington Wizards are a group of strangers you’ve never heard of, yet they’re beating your favorite team.
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