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Found January 19, 2012 on Dan Shanoff:
PLAYERS: Chris Webber,  Gilbert Arenas,  John Wall,  Andray Blatche,  JaVale McGee,  Nick Young,  Jordan Crawford,  Kevin Durant,  Prince Fielder,  Josh Hamilton
TEAMS: Orlando Magic,  Washington Wizards,  Oklahoma City Thunder,  Milwaukee Brewers,  Texas Rangers

As a lifelong Wizards fan, there are only a handful of great moments I can point to. Signing Bernard King was a fun one. Trading for Chris Webber was a great one. (Trading him away for Mitch Richmond, not so much.) Signing Gilbert Arenas (before things went... y'know.)Two summers ago, when the Wizards won the John Wall Lottery, that was the closest thing I had ever experienced to the ecstasy of a championship with this team, which otherwise had given me so much frustration over the years -- no year more than this one, when the "rebuild" seemed like a vacant foreclosure.This season, the Wizards started with one win in their first baker's dozen of games -- by far the worst record in the NBA, but even worse, the Wiz gave the worst effort in the NBA. Andray Blatche is the worst. JaVale McGee is a knucklehead. Nick Young and Jordan Crawford shoot way too much. John Wall's body language suggested he was serving time.Last night, the Thunder -- the model of how a winni...
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