Nobody will be happier to find the preseason end than the Washington Wizards; if it had gone on any longer, they would have run out of healthy bodies completely.
With Martell Webster on the shelf after his third back operation in four seasons, the harms just kept coming.
Bradley Beal fractured his wrist, Glen Rice Jr. wrapped his ankle, Kris Humphries ripped open his arm onto the rim (because when are these things sharp?) , requiring surgery. John Wall was limited with knee tendinitis.
Somehow, the Wizards’ oldest player managed to survive the display slate unscathed. Paul Pierce, set to begin at small forward for the Wiz, offered some veteran perspective on the parade into the coach’s table, per Jorge Castillo of The Washington Post:”It has been tough. It has been hard. We haven’t had a complete squad most of the preseason. The important thing is understanding it is a long season. The key is to get healthy.”
If the collective swelling recedes and all the stitches hold, Washington can nevertheless make good on the lofty expectations it set last season. Forty-four wins got people believing in D.C., and now the Wizards confront a world in which anything less than a top-four seed will constitute a disappointment.
Demands like that are as refreshing as they’re daunting, especially for a company with little success in yesteryear. In 33-1, the Wiz aren’t totally out of the championship film, but they are still a notch beneath the East’s elite.

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