Tonight's John Wall night at Capital One Arena.

John Wall had a hell of a career here.

He really did during the era of not being a contender for 40-something years.

The teams with John and Brad and Neney and Gortot and Trevor Areza and Paul Pierce, etc,

where they went to the playoffs five times

in eight years and got within a whisker a few times of the Eastern Conference Championship

series. John Wall led the way. I've had John on the show a couple of times, had him on my

podcast over the summer, and he was so good in just talking

about his time here. And that's where we started. I asked him, of the teams that he played on,

which of those teams was the best? For me, I feel like the best thing I played in was 16-17.

I mean, we was right there when we took Boston to 7. I think that's the best team I played on. But I feel like we had other great teams, too. I mean, like I feel like my first year would, Trevor Reeves, when I first made the playoffs, I think that was a great team also. But I think at the time, me and Brad wasn't the players who wanted to be at the time. We were learning how to be stars, learning how to be great in the NBA, and learning how to do well in the playoffs. So I think that was our first hurdle to understand how good we could be. And then I think my second team I would say would be the year we had Paul Pierce, just his mentality of being a vet coming in there um teaching as what really work was every day

and basically just giving me the confidence like every time you step on the floor you're the best player

and that's what i felt like every time i was out there with paul uh it was just devastating i broke my hand

game one yeah that year in the playoffs but we still had the opportunity to come back and win i mean

we won't rebound away from going up three two and game game 5 in Atlanta. I got blocked in his shoulder shot, and then we lose game 6 at home. I mean, just didn't make some shots down the end. But I feel like those are my good teams. I mean, I had a lot of great vans throughout my career, but I'm probably those are my top two teams. Yeah, I'm still convinced to this day that if you don't get injured against the Hawks in 2015,

you guys win that series, and you would have faced Cleveland in the Eastern Conference

finals. And in 2017, if you had beaten Boston, you would have faced Cleveland in the Eastern

conference finals. I'm curious because I've often thought about those two opportunities

and how close the Wizards were to getting to the conference finals

one series away from the NBA Championship.

Which of those two teams do you think would have had a better chance

against the two Cleveland teams, the

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