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The Sports Junkies

Will Dawkins On The Latest Wizards News

The Sports Junkies

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Sports

4.31.7K Ratings

🗓️ 12 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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From 01/12 Hour 3: Will Dawkins joins The Sports Junkies to break down the latest Washington Wizards news.

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0:00.0

Welcome back. Junkies coming to you on 1067 The Fan and the Team 980 in D.C.

0:04.8

Joining us right now to talk some hoops, a guy who was in the news last week pulling off a big deal.

0:10.4

It's our pal, Will Dawkins, general manager of the Washington Wizards. What's going on, Will?

0:15.1

Nothing much, fellas. How are we doing?

0:17.0

Good. When you make a deal like that for Trey Young, is it thrilling to you?

0:22.6

It's always fun, as you guys know, having negotiations and going through the process.

0:27.0

And when you can find a player and stumble upon something that you think makes sense,

0:31.0

not just in the short term, but the long term, it's definitely something that gets the group excited.

0:35.3

So, Will, give us some behind-the behind the scenes details and give me a quick timeline.

0:39.8

How long has this been brewing?

0:41.2

Who is the first to make contact with who?

0:43.9

Can you fill us in on the details on how Trey Young wound up here in D.C.?

0:50.4

Yeah, I think everything doesn't happen overnight.

0:53.3

It's a process where we had a good trade partner in Atlanta.

0:56.9

You had a player in Trey that was looking for a different opportunity and wanting to be here in D.C.

1:01.6

So you're able to connect the dots, try to make a deal that we sell with both for good teams.

1:06.4

We're into doing good deals, and we felt like what we ended up doing was exactly that.

1:10.5

You know, in the news, people connect Travis Schlenk to Trey Young because doing good deals and we felt like what we ended up doing was exactly that.

1:15.7

You know, in the news, people connect Travis Schlank to Trey Young because he was with Atlanta before.

1:16.1

Tell us about that because how does that even work your partnership with Schenck?

1:21.4

Yeah, I think we have a deep, not just strategy group, but evaluation group as well.

1:26.8

And Travis is someone who I value his

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