Best of Wizards on 106.7 The Fan/Team 980: John Wall Retires

The Kevin Sheehan Show

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4.7 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 24 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

John Wall officially called it a career this week at age 34, bringing back memories of the former No. 1 pick’s time in Washington. Listen as our hosts discuss the news, hear from analysts Steve Buckhantz and Chase Hughes and play-by-play voice Chris Miller on Wall’s career, and callers debate with Kevin Sheehan on the idea of the Wiz retiring Wall’s number!

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0:00.0	Overblow.
0:02.5	Oh, big old rabbit.
0:05.2	Be Mitch Finley, 106, 7, the fan.
0:09.7	Brief football break.
0:12.3	John Wall officially announced his retirement.
0:16.6	Things didn't end great with John Wall and D.C, but man, there were some fun times.
0:21.7	And when he hit that shot and jumped up on the scorers table, I feel like John really
0:27.6	tried to embrace the city.
0:30.4	How do you embrace him?
0:31.7	Yeah.
0:32.9	I think Rosebar might have embraced him.
0:35.1	But I think, I don't know.
0:38.2	Like, it's one of those time heals all wounds kind of things.
0:42.3	The Supermax they gave him was obviously a bad idea.
0:45.7	But, you know, Ernie's playing golf somewhere.
0:48.6	Like, things happen.
0:50.2	Like, I now look back at the John Wall era very fondly.
0:54.3	Yeah, totally, totally.
0:56.3	When they drafted him, it was cool.
0:59.0	I mean, he's probably got a ton of money and gets to kind of just chill,
1:03.4	whatever he wants to do.
1:05.5	I know he did a little bit of TV work.
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