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The annual NBA Draft is a night of high tensions and even higher expectations. Each team is looking for their franchise player from picks one to sixty, all in hopes of taking their team to the next level.

Because "no news" is never an option for beat reporters, the lack of activity from the Wizards ' front office in its search for a new head coach must mean something, right? Right?? Links: Does the lack of chatter regarding the Wizards head coaching search indicate Randy Wittman will be back next season? Some think it does.

The NBA announced Thursday that a record 24 teams will compete this summer during the 2012 NBA Summer League in Las Vegas, Nevada.A The Washington Wizards will return to Las Vegas as one of only four NBA teams to have made every single year since the league's inauguration in 2004.

Former Wizards coach Flip Saunders is now an advisor to the Celtics and has been reuinted with former pupil Kevin Garnett.

It looks like Wild Thing will get his first taste of Olympic play. The Cleveland Cavaliers forward Anderson Varejao was named on Monday, May 14.

The Washington Wizards finished with the second-worst record in the NBA and need to draft a player who will spark ticket sales and contribute immediately.

Each year HOOPSWORLD puts together a team of writers to look at the NBA Draft. The idea here is to illustrate how differently writers from various NBA markets see the 2012 NBA Draft.

It was always expected, and now it's essentially official: Nene will play for Team Brazil in the 2012 London Olympics.

There will be plenty of solid player available via free agency this summer, both restricted and unrestricted, but BNIE doesn't think the Wizards are ready to "blow all their powder in one go" just yet.

There will no longer be a big 3 in Miami next year. Miami's owner pretty much conceded after the new CBA was agreed upon that it will be almost impossible to keep all 3 and have a GREAT team.

It is the end of the season which marks the point where the Bullets Forever community get to weigh in on how well they think each Wizards player did over the course of the the abbreviated 2011-12 season.

Brazil's men's basketball team will be led by NBA players Nene, Leandro Barbosa, Tiago Splitter and Anderson Varejao when it returns to the Olympics for the first time in 16 years.

After two seasons with Jordan Crawford , it's obvious that he likes to get his shots up.

Editor's Note: The 2012 NBA Draft is just around the corner, and that means it's time to start looking at this year's prospects.

The Wizards find themselves entering this off season without a head coach under contract.

With the NBA draft a little over a month away, Bleacher Report takes a look at the offseason needs of the Washington Wizards .

The Wizards went into the offseason on a high note on a six game winning streak, tanking be damned.

I never thought Brian Cook was a good NBA player and I never thought he would help the Wizards when he was acquired at the trade deadline.

It is the end of the season which marks the point where the Bullets Forever community get to weigh in on how well they think each Wizards player did over the course of the the abbreviated 2011-12 season.

Crawford shot 40 percent from the field in his sophomore season, which isn't very accurate for a volume shooter but is actually an improvement from his rookie year.