One day coach Brian Keefe will bring a football to practice and the Wizards will discover they’ve been playing the wrong sport all along. Until then, Washington (13-36) will continue to play their unique brand of NBA hoops.
Washington coach Brian Keefe is in no doubt as to where the Wizards need to improve when they host the struggling Sacramento Kings on Sunday. After winning the first two legs of a five-game homestand, Washington came back to earth with a thud on Friday, trounced 142-111 by the Los Angeles Lakers.
The Washington Wizards have already played both games against the Minnesota Timberwolves, losing their first matchup in Minnesota 120-109 and their second in Washington 141-115.
During a media session on Thursday, Wizards president Michael Winger said he’s not “setting some kind of barometer” for what he expects from his team in 2026/27 (Twitter link via Ben Strober of 106.7 The Fan).
Good players tend to succeed in the NBA. Sometimes, though, they find themselves in terrible situations but still find ways to over-achieve. These are the 20 players who carried the worst NBA teams.
After nearly two months of running in mud, the Washington Wizards' rebuild is finally starting to pay off in the eyes of fans who've grown numb to near-endless losing.
The Washington Wizards own the NBA's second-worst record at 6-23, but there have been some encouraging signs the past few weeks. A week ago, the Wizards defeated the Memphis Grizzlies, 130-122.
At 5-23 with an uncomfortable number of games left to be played in the 2025-26 season, the Washington Wizards are in the middle of a rebuild that, to many fans, must feel perpetual.
The coaching staff is an integral part of any rebuilding team. There are some questions about whether Brian Keefe is the guy to lead the Washington Wizards even after the rebuild.
The Washington Wizards, in the franchise's second season under head coach Brian Keefe, have perhaps never looked as lost as they do right now. With a 4-20 overall record (on-pace for a third straight sub-20 win campaign), D.C.
The Washington Wizards remain one of the NBA’s most patient, rebuilding franchises. While other teams cycle through coaches quickly when progress stalls, the Wizards have stayed committed to their head coach, Brian Keefe, even as the losses pile up and skepticism from fans and the entire sports world grows.
The Washington Wizards' 1–15 start to the 2025–26 season has raised a plethora of questions, with arguably none bigger than the job stability of head coach Brian Keefe.
The Washington Wizards have had just about the worst imaginable start to the 2025–26 season, posting just one win through the first 15 games of the season.
The Washington Wizards have started the season 1-12. After just one win on the road against another struggling team, the Dallas Mavericks, head coach Brian Keefe potentially finds himself in the hot seat.
The Washington Wizards and head coach Brian Keefe haven’t gotten off to a great start. The Wizards are currently sitting at 1-11, and are only favored to win one game for the rest of November.
The lowest spot in the Eastern Conference, for almost the entirety of the last two seasons, has belonged almost solely to the woeful Washington Wizards.
The Wizards finished 8-31 under Brian Keefe as interim coach, but they believed in him enough to give him the job on a full-time basis. Keefe seems to believe in the Wizards, too.
Brian Keefe will see his interim tag removed, as the Washington Wizards announced Wednesday that he will officially be the 26th head coach in franchise history.
The Washington Wizards are still looking for their next head coach and it may mean just moving interim man Brian Keefe to the job on a full-time basis, per NBA insider Josh Robbins of The Athletic.
Poole has been playing noticeably better since Keefe stepped in as interim head coach. Whether he remains on the sidelines next season or not, Keefe may have saved Poole's tenure with the Wizards and, potentially, in the NBA.
Meet new interim Washington Wizards head coach Brian Keefe. Former Wizards coach Wes Unseld Jr. was relieved of his duties Thursday morning. Under Unseld Jr., Washington had a 77-130 overall record.