Nobody will be more happy to see the preseason end compared to the Washington Wizards; if it had gone on any longer, they would have run out of bodies completely.
With Martell Webster on the shelf after his third back surgery in four seasons, the harms just kept coming.
Bradley Beal fractured his wrist, Glen Rice Jr. rolled his ankle, Kris Humphries ripped open his arm onto the rim (since when are those things sharp?) , requiring surgery to mend the gash. John Wall was limited with knee tendinitis.
The Wizards’ oldest player managed to live the exhibition slate unscathed. Paul Pierce, place to start at small forward for the Wiz, provided some veteran perspective on the parade into the trainer’s table, per Jorge Castillo of The Washington Post:”It has been tough. It’s been challenging. We have not had a full squad the majority of the preseason. The important thing is understanding it is a very long season. The crucial thing is to get healthy.”
When the collective swelling recedes and all the stitches hold, Washington can nevertheless make great on the lofty expectations it set last season. Forty-four wins got people thinking in D.C., and the Wizards face a world where anything less than a top-four seed will constitute a disappointment.
Demands like that are as sterile as they are daunting, especially for a franchise with so little success in yesteryear. At 33-1, the Wiz aren’t completely out of the tournament film, but they are still a notch below the East’s elite.

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