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The Sports Junkies

Best Interviews on 106.7 The Fan/Team 980: November 3-7, 2025

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Hear from Wizards GM Will Dawkins, Georgetown head basketball coach Ed Cooley, and Maryland head football coach Mike Locksley about their seasons, plus Leslie Shepherd and Jordan Reed dish on the 2025 Commanders and their memories of DC!

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0:00.0

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0:11.4

Welcome back. Junkies come to you live on 106-7 the fan and the Team 980 here in the DMV.

0:17.5

910, the fan 105.1 FM in Richmond.

0:20.1

You can watch us on the Monumental Sports Network. We're brought to you by Crop MacCalf. They're the official heating and cooling company of the junkies. All right, let's talk a little Washington Wizards in the midst of a rebuild. Not necessarily winning a lot of games, but a lot of young players playing in their GM. Will Dawkins joins us right now.

0:38.2

What's going on, Will?

0:39.7

Good morning. Good morning. How are we doing, guys?

0:41.3

How would you assess, like, like, big picture globally how the Wizards have performed this

0:47.1

early part of the season?

0:49.2

Yeah, I think with us last year coming in, we had a little bit more of a veteran team. And this year, we knew

0:56.3

we were going to give more opportunities to the young guys early on. They were kind of like a part

1:00.3

of the group last year. Now they're driving the group this year. So the outcomes, obviously,

1:05.0

not as many wins as we would like, but I think we've seen the progress with the players,

1:09.8

and we're pretty happy with where they're at right now. Yeah, I would say that I'm pretty much a dummy, and I can see where you're going with this, right, with all the young guys. They're fun. I wouldn't say all that. They're fun to watch, for sure. And I remember talking to you when you drafted the guys, you know, like Kishon and Bub and all those

1:27.9

guys. And I remember it being intrigued by Kishan. And I just thought, oh, man, he looks like a, I remember saying to you specifically. And I feel stupid now. But I was like, I think he'd be like, maybe like a poor man's Robert Rory, just like great shooter from him. He does it all now. You guys are having him do it all. He's bringing a ball up. I'm told he's one of your best defenders.

1:47.1

He fills up every... all now. You guys are having him do it all. He's bringing a ball up. I'm told he's one of your best

1:45.9

defenders. He fills up every category. Is he your biggest surprise of all the guys, the young

1:52.7

players, that you've been putting together? Yeah, I think Kishon's done a tremendous job of putting

1:58.3

the work in. I know he's talked to you guys and a lot of people

2:02.2

know he stayed all summer and was doing two days, six days a week and really put the time in.

2:06.9

I got to give the coaching staff and Coach Keith a lot of credit. They stayed with them all summer

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