Wizards Re-Sign Beloved Veteran

No official report has been made regarding how much he'll be making, but the veteran's minimum is a likely place to start.

Gill spent five seasons in Washington before getting waived in June, one of several casualties of the Wizards' bloated roster alongside other veterans like Richaun Holmes and, to a degree, Marcus Smart, who are both no longer on the team after a series of buy-outs.

The 32-year-old's counting stats are nothing remarkable, with his making his NBA debut at 28 en route to five years of averaging 3.4 points per game in 230 total games, but his value goes far beyond the box score. He's universally revered as a veteran among veterans, a staple of charitable work within the DC community to go alongside his ever-helpful and positive locker room presence.

The Wizards are going to enter the upcoming regular season with one of the youngest rosters in the league, an expansive rebuild that's seeing them throw as much at the wall as they can. There will be a lot of contending for open minutes, and having someone there whose sole purpose is to be there for the young guys will ease out a potential rotational burden.

The team only had two real veterans before between CJ McCollum and Khris Middleton, and are now joined by someone who's plenty familiar with the situation in Washington. Gill will play scarcely, but when he does, he'll actually help out the frontcourt with his size and commitment to physicality in lineups where he'll be surrounded by on-ball guards and versatile wings.

Now, the storyline flips to how the Wizards plan on getting the number of players on full-time NBA contracts back down to 15. They put in a lot of work to narrowing the roster down, but will now have to split with one of their many young guys.

Players on the chopping block now include Malaki Branham, the only remaining player returned from the second Kelly Olynyk trade to the San Antonio Spurs, and Dillon Jones, the rising sophomore who the Wizards pulled from the Oklahoma City Thunder. Neither will cost much to dump, and both were facing uphill battles in having to claw for minutes on the 2025-26 team.