Washington Wizards 2024-25 NBA Championship Betting
Last year was a catastrophe for the Washington Wizards. Washington went from being a mediocre team to one of the worst in NBA history, with a final win percentage of .183. It was the Wizards' worst campaign since their founding in 1961. Now Washington will try and pick of the pieces for what gamblers expect to be another nightmare year. Brian Keefe took over as interim head coach and was given the full-time tag by season’s end. This is his first NBA head coaching assignment.
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In the 2023-24 season, the Washington Wizards were 15-67 straight up, 46-42-4 against the spread, and 43-39 over/under the total. Washington was 14th in the Eastern Conference playoff standings. Washington was 49 games behind the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference playoff race.
Washington had NBA metrics of 17th for scoring offense, 17th for field goal percentage, 25th for 3-point field goal percentage, 24th for free throw percentage, and 29th for offensive rebounding. On defense, the Wizards had NBA metrics of 30th for scoring defense, 29th for field goal percentage permitted, 13th for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 30th for defensive rebounding.
Key Players
SF Kyle Kuzma led the Wizards with 22.2 points and 6.6 rebounds per game. Kuzma was the 27th overall pick of the 2017 NBA Draft out of Utah by the Brooklyn Nets. Kuzma played on the 2020 NBA champion Los Angeles Lakers and was on the 2018 NBA All-Rookie First Team.
SG Jordan Poole averaged 17.4 points per game. Poole was the 28th overall pick of the 2019 NBA Draft out of Michigan by Golden State. He played for the 2022 Golden State Warriors NBA championship team.
PF Marvin Bagley III averaged 11.7 points and 6.2 rebounds per game since his arrival from the Detroit Pistons. Badgley was the 2nd overall pick in the 2018 NBA Draft out of Duke by the Sacramento Kings. He was named to the 2019 NBA All-Rookie First Team and was a consensus First Team All-American at Duke.
Head Coach
Wes Unseld Jr was fired as head coach after a 7-36 start to the 2023-24 season. Brian Keefe was the interim coach. He has been a career NBA assistant since 2007. Keefe was named permanent coach after going 8-31 and will remain for the upcoming season.
Season-by-Season Record (Last 6)
| SEASON |
GAMES |
WINS |
LOSSES |
FINISH |
PLAYOFFS |
| 2023–24 |
82 |
15 |
67 |
5th, Southeast |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2022–23 |
82 |
35 |
47 |
3rd, Southeast |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2021–22 |
82 |
35 |
47 |
4th, Southeast |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2020–21 |
72 |
34 |
38 |
3rd, Southeast |
Lost in First Round, 1–4 (76ers) |
| 2019–20 |
72 |
25 |
47 |
3rd, Southeast |
Did Not Qualify |
| 2018–19 |
82 |
32 |
50 |
4th, Southeast |
Did Not Qualify |
Washington Wizards History
The Washington Wizards have a pretty interesting history. They were the first expansion franchise in the NBA, joining the league as the Chicago Packers in 1961. They had NBA Rookie of the Year Walt Bellamy in their first season, but they only managed to win 18 games. The team changed its name to the Zephyrs the following year, but that didn’t improve its record or attendance much, so the franchise relocated and became the Baltimore Bullets.
A change of scenery wasn’t immediately beneficial to the franchise. The Baltimore Bullets went seven years without finishing over .500, but that allowed the team to draft star players. They selected Earl ‘The Pearl’ Monroe as the No. 2 overall pick in the 1967 NBA Draft, and they followed that up by taking Wes Unseld, No. 2 in the 1968 NBA Draft. Monroe and Unseld immediately led the franchise to a 57-25 record in their first season together, and they went on to make the NBA Finals in 1971 and 1975. Unfortunately, they lost in both of those NBA Finals appearances.
This franchise made another move during its halcyon years. The Bullets became the Capital Bullets in 1973 and then changed their name to the Washington Bullets the following year. They continued to be very competitive and then finally broke through in 1978. The Washington Bullets beat the Seattle Supersonics in a seven-game series to win the NBA Finals, thanks to Unseld and Elvin Hayes. They faced Seattle in a rematch the following year, but the Supersonics were too much.
Washington has not advanced to the conference finals since that point. The franchise has won just five playoff series since 1979, and they haven’t won 50 or more games in a season since then, either. They changed their name to the Washington Wizards in 1997, but that’s about the only thing they have done of note. This has been an absolutely moribund franchise for over 40 years, and it doesn’t look like things are getting better any time soon.
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