While Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld sits back and plays “wait and see” game for any offers that he likes from teams for Juan Carlos Navarro’s rights, he has wasted no time in his first step to retain restricted free agent forward Andray Blatche. Now that the Wizards lost a potential suitor for Navarro after Miami [...]

According to several reports, Barcelona, Navarro’s current team, has imposed a deadline of Aug. 3 for the Wizards to complete a deal. That means the Wizards will have to decide until the end of next week whether to sign guard Juan Carlos Navarro or trade his NBA rights to another team. In today’s Washington Post’s [...]

The Wizards held the final round of the 2007-08 Dance Team Auditions Monday night at Verizon Center. After a thorough discussion among the judges (including Gilbert Arenas, Olesksiy Pecherov, and Mike Hall with Dance Team director Tara Perez), they announced 17 dancers to be on the 2007-08 Wizards Dance Team. There is one final spot [...]

The Washington Wizards announced today the hiring of Randy Ayers as an assistant coach on Head Coach Eddie Jordan’s staff. Per team policy, terms of the contract were not disclosed. “We are pleased to have Randy join our coaching staff,” Jordan said. “As an assistant with the Philadelphia 76ers, he implemented the defensive schemes for [...]

In response to stories that the FBI is investigating an NBA referee (Tim Donaghy) who bet on games he officiated, Commissioner David Stern discussed the gambling scandal with the media in a press conference earlier this morning. Watch Video NBA Commissioner David Stern has issued the following statement: “As we previously stated, we have been [...]