Inside the NBA’s 2025-26 Gamble: Which Teams Will Rise to Glory or Crash and Burn?

Inside the NBA’s 2025-26 Gamble: Which Teams Will Rise to Glory or Crash and Burn?

Washington Wizards

Best-case scenario: Alex Sarr is a true floor-spacing, rim-protecting big man. Tre Johnson is the smooth-shooting scorer they imagine. Both are potential stars. Bilal Coulibaly is a complementary 3-and-D wing. Everyone settles into his role. And enough of them fulfill those roles admirably enough to think this roster could do some damage in a year’s time. And in the meantime the Wizards cruise into another lottery pick to join them.

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If everything falls apart: Nobody was worth his draft status. Not one of them. Years into their rebuild the Wizards are without a star in the making. Khris Middleton and CJ McCollum fail in their attempts to fill the void. Everything becomes about the next great hope in the draft, and that is no place a franchise wants to be, where there is no internal development and no hope for the next guy in need of it. It can get real bad, real quick in Washington.

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